Abasa
The One Who Comes Striving
In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. He frowned and turned away, because the blind man came to him.
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم عبس وتولي ان جاه الاعميAnd what would make you know?
وما يدريكPerhaps he might purify himself, or remember, and the reminder would benefit him.
لعله يزكي او يذكر فتنفعه الذكريAs for him who considers himself self-sufficient, you give him your attention, and it is not upon you if he does not purify himself.
اما من استغني فانت له تصدي وما عليك الا يزكيBut as for him who came to you striving, and he fears, from him you are distracted. By no means!
واما من جاك يسعي وهو يخشي فانت عنه تلهي كلاIndeed, it is a reminder,
انها تذكره— so whoever wills, let him remember it —, in honored scrolls, elevated and purified, in the hands of envoys, noble and virtuous.
فمن شا ذكره في صحف مكرمه مرفوعه مطهره بايدي سفره كرام بررهMay the human being perish; how he disowns!
قتل الانسن ما اكفرهFrom what thing did He create him?
من اي شي خلقهFrom 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.
من نطفه خلقه فقدره ثم السبيل يسره ثم اماته فاقبرهThen, when He wills, He will awaken him.
ثم اذا شا انشرهBy no means! He has not yet accomplished what He commanded him.
كلا لما يقض ما امرهThen let the human being look at his food:
فلينظر الانسن الي طعامهthat 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 fruit and pasture, as a provision for you and your livestock.
انا صببنا الما صبا ثم شققنا الارض شقا فانبتنا فيها حبا وعنبا وقضبا وزيتونا ونخلا وحدايق غلبا وفكهه وابا متعا لكم ولانعمكمBut when the Deafening Blast comes, the Day a man will flee from his brother, and his mother and his father, and his companion and his sons.
فاذا جات الصاخه يوم يفر المر من اخيه وامه وابيه وصحبته وبنيهFor every person among them, that Day, is a matter that will suffice him.
لكل امري منهم يوميذ شان يغنيهFaces, that Day, will be radiant, laughing, rejoicing.
وجوه يوميذ مسفره ضاحكه مستبشرهAnd faces, that Day, will have dust upon them, covered in blackness.
ووجوه يوميذ عليها غبره ترهقها قترهThose are the disowners, the depraved.
اوليك هم الكفره الفجره