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 وتولى ان جاءه الاعمىAnd what gives you an idea?
وما يدريكPerhaps he might purify himself, or remember, and the reminder would benefit him.
لعله يزكى او يذكر فتنفعه الذكرىAs 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 استغنى فانت له تصدى وما عليك الا يزكىBut as for him who came to you striving, and he dreads, from him you are distracted. By no means!
واما من جاءك يسعى وهو يخشى فانت عنه تلهى كلاIndeed, it is a reminder,
انها تذكرة— so whoever wills, let him remember it —, in honored scrolls, elevated and purified, in the hands of envoys, noble and virtuous.
فمن شاء ذكره في صحف مكرمة مرفوعة مطهرة بايدي سفرة كرام بررةMay the human being perish; how he disowns!
قتل الانسن ما اكفرهFrom what thing did He create him?
من اى شىء 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 نطفة خلقه فقدره ثم السبيل يسره ثم اماته فاقبرهThen, when He wills, He will deploy him.
ثم اذا شاء 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 الى 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 savoury fruit and pasture, as a provision for you and your cattle.
انا صببنا الماء صبا ثم شققنا الارض شقا فانبتنا فيها حبا وعنبا وقضبا وزيتونا ونخلا وحدايق غلبا وفكهة 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 جاءت الصاخة يوم يفر المرء 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, exulting.
وجوه يوميذ مسفرة ضاحكة مستبشرةAnd faces, that Day, will have dust upon them, covered in blackness.
ووجوه يوميذ عليها غبرة ترهقها قترةThose are the disowners, the depraved.
اوليك هم الكفرة الفجرة