Abasa

In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. He frowned and turned his back, because the blind man came to him.

بِسْمِ اِ۬للَّهِ اِ۬لرَّحْمَٰنِ اِ۬لرَّحِيمِ عَبَسَ وَتَوَلَّىٰ أَن جَآءَهُ اُ۬لْأَعْمَىٰۖ

And what gives you an idea?

وَمَا يُدْرِيكَۖ

Perhaps he might purify himself, or remember, and the reminder would benefit him.

لَعَلَّهُۥ يَزَّكَّىٰ أَوْ يَذَّكَّرُ فَتَنفَعُهُ اُ۬لذِّكْرَىٰۖ

As for him who considers himself self-sufficient, you go out to him, and it is not upon you if he does not purify himself.

أَمَّا مَنِ اِ۪سْتَغْنَىٰ فَأَنتَ لَهُۥ تَصَّدَّىٰ وَمَا عَلَيْكَ أَلَّا يَزَّكَّىٰۖ

It is a reminder,

إِنَّهَا تَذْكِرَةٞۖ

— so whoever wants, let him remember it —, in honored chronicles, elevated and purified, in the hands of envoys, noble and virtuous.

فَمَن شَآءَ ذَكَرَهُۥ فِے صُحُفٖ مُّكَرَّمَةٖ مَّرْفُوعَةٖ مُّطَهَّرَةِۢ بِأَيْدِے سَفَرَةٖ كِرَامِۢ بَرَرَةٖۖ

May the human being perish; how he disowns!

قُتِلَ اَ۬لْإِنسَٰنُ مَا أَكْفَرَهُۥۖ

From what thing did He create him?

مِنْ أَيِّ شَےْءٍ خَلَقَهُۥۖ

From a drop He created him and measured him, then He made the way easy for him, then He caused him to die and buried him.

مِن نُّطْفَةٍ خَلَقَهُۥ فَقَدَّرَهُۥ ثُمَّ اَ۬لسَّبِيلَ يَسَّرَهُۥ ثُمَّ أَمَاتَهُۥ فَأَقْبَرَهُۥۖ

Then, when He wills, He will deploy him.

ثُمَّ إِذَا شَا أَنشَرَهُۥۖ

By no means! He has not yet concluded what He commanded him.

كَلَّا لَمَّا يَقْضِ مَا أَمَرَهُۥۖ

So let the human being look at his food:

فَلْيَنظُرِ اِ۬لْإِنسَٰنُ إِلَىٰ طَعَامِهِۦۖ

that We poured the water in abundance, then We split the earth in clefts, then We caused to grow within it grain, and grapes and fodder, and olives and date-palms, and dense enclosed gardens, and savoury fruit and pasture, as an enjoyment for you and your cattle.

إِنَّا صَبَبْنَا اَ۬لْمَآءَ صَبّاٗ ثُمَّ شَقَقْنَا اَ۬لْأَرْضَ شَقّاٗ فَأَنۢبَتْنَا فِيهَا حَبّاٗ وَعِنَباٗ وَقَضْباٗ وَزَيْتُوناٗ وَنَخْلاٗ وَحَدَآئِقَ غُلْباٗ وَفَٰكِهَةٗ وَأَبّاٗ مَّتَٰعاٗ لَّكُمْ وَلِأَنْعَٰمِكُمْۖ

Then, when the Deafening Blast comes, the Day a man will flee from his brother, and his mother and his father, and his consort and his sons,

فَإِذَا جَآءَتِ اِ۬لصَّآخَّةُ يَوْمَ يَفِرُّ اُ۬لْمَرْءُ مِنْ أَخِيهِ وَأُمِّهِۦ وَأَبِيهِ وَصَٰحِبَتِهِۦ وَبَنِيهِۖ

for every person among them, that Day, is a matter that will absorb him.

لِكُلِّ اِ۪مْرِےٕٖ مِّنْهُمْ يَوْمَئِذٖ شَأْنٞ يُغْنِيهِۖ

Some faces, that Day, will be radiant, laughing, exulting.

وُجُوهٞ يَوْمَئِذٖ مُّسْفِرَةٞ ضَاحِكَةٞ مُّسْتَبْشِرَةٞۖ

And some faces, that Day, will have dust upon them, veiled in dark dust.

وَوُجُوهٞ يَوْمَئِذٍ عَلَيْهَا غَبَرَةٞ تَرْهَقُهَا قَتَرَةٌۖ

Those are the disowners, the depraved.

أُوْلَٰٓئِكَ هُمُ اُ۬لْكَفَرَةُ اُ۬لْفَجَرَةُۖ