80. `Abasa: He Frowned
1 He frowned and turned away
2 Because the blind man came
unto him.
3 What could inform thee but
that he might grow (in grace)
4 Or take heed and so the reminder
might avail him ?
5 As for him who thinketh himself
independent,
6 Unto him thou payest regard.
7 Yet it is not thy concern
if he grow not (in grace).
8 But as for him who cometh
unto thee with earnest purpose
9 And hath fear,
10 From him thou art distracted.
11 Nay, but verily it is an
Admonishment,
12 So let whosoever will pay
heed to it,
13 On honoured leaves
14 Exalted, purified,
15 (Set down) by scribes
16 Noble and righteous.
17 Man is (self-)destroyed:
how ungrateful!
18 From what thing doth He create
him ?
19 From a drop of seed. He createth
him and proportioneth him,
20 Then maketh the way easy
for him,
21 Then causeth him to die,
and burieth him;
22 Then, when He will, He bringeth
him again to life.
23 Nay, but (man) hath not done
what He commanded him.
24 Let man consider his food:
25 How We pour water in showers
26 Then split the earth in clefts
27 And cause the grain to grow
therein
28 And grapes and green fodder
29 And olive-trees and palm-trees
30 And garden-closes of thick
foliage
31 And fruits and grasses:
32 Provision for you and your
cattle.
33 But when the Shout cometh
34 On the day when a man fleeth
from his brother
35 And his mother and his father
36 And his wife and his children,
37 Every man that day will have
concern enough to make him heedless (of others).
38 On that day faces will be
bright as dawn,
39 Laughing, rejoicing at good
news;
40 And other faces, on that
day, with dust upon them,
41 Veiled in darkness,
42 Those are the disbelievers,
the wicked.
