He Frowned ('Abasa)
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
۞ HE FROWNED and turned away 1 that the blind man came to him. 2 for how can you know that he might seek to purify himself, 3 Or that he might receive admonition, and the teaching might profit him? 4 As for him who was indifferent, 5 Unto him thou payest regard. 6 Though it is not your concern if he should not grow (in fulness). 7 And as to him who comes to you striving hard, 8 And is afraid (of Allah and His Punishment), 9 From him thou art distracted. 10 Assuredly this is a reminder 11 For any one who desires to bear it in mind, 12 (Contained) in honoured pages, 13 Exalted and holy, 14 by the hands of scribes 15 noble and virtuous scribes. 16 Man is (self-)destroyed: how ungrateful! 17 Of what did He create him? 18 From a single sperm He created, then proportioned him, 19 Then (as for) the way-- He has made it easy (for him) 20 He will then send him to death and have him laid in the grave. 21 Then, when it is His Will, He will raise him up (again). 22 Certainly, he has not duly fulfilled His commands. 23 Then let man look to his food, 24 How We pour water in showers 25 Then We broke open the earth, splitting [it with sprouts], 26 and therein made the grains to grow 27 And grapes and herbage, 28 And olives and date palms, 29 And thick gardens, 30 fruits, and grass. 31 for you and for your animals to enjoy. 32 But when there comes the Deafening Blast 33 On the Day a man will flee from his brother 34 And from his mother and his father, 35 As well as his wife and children. 36 every man that day shall have business to suffice him. 37 Some faces will shine, 38 laughing and joyful, 39 Some faces on that Day shall be dust-ridden, 40 Covered with the blackness (of shame): 41 These are they who are unbelievers, the wicked. 42