Chapter 80, Abasa [ He Frowned ]
- Seeking refuge with Allah from the banished Satan.I begin in the name of Allah, the Most Merciful, the Most Merciful.
- 1. (The Prophet) frowned and turned away,
- 2. Because there came to him the blind man (interrupting).
- 3. But what could tell thee but that perchance he might grow (in spiritual understanding)?-
- 4. Or that he might receive admonition, and the teaching might profit him?
- 5. As to one who regards Himself as self-sufficient,
- 6. To him dost thou attend;
- 7. Though it is no blame to thee if he grow not (in spiritual understanding).
- 8. But as to him who came to thee striving earnestly,
- 9. And with fear (in his heart),
- 10. Of him wast thou unmindful.
- 11. By no means (should it be so)! For it is indeed a Message of instruction:
- 12. Therefore let whoso will, keep it in remembrance.
- 13. (It is) in Books held (greatly) in honour,
- 14. Exalted (in dignity), kept pure and holy,
- 15. (Written) by the hands of scribes-
- 16. Honourable and Pious and Just.
- 17. Woe to man! What hath made him reject Allah;
- 18. From what stuff hath He created him?
- 19. From a sperm-drop: He hath created him, and then mouldeth him in due proportions;
- 20. Then doth He make His path smooth for him;
- 21. Then He causeth him to die, and putteth him in his grave;
- 22. Then, when it is His Will, He will raise him up (again).
- 23. By no means hath he fulfilled what Allah hath commanded him.
- 24. Then let man look at his food, (and how We provide it):
- 25. For that We pour forth water in abundance,
- 26. And We split the earth in fragments,
- 27. And produce therein corn,
- 28. And Grapes and nutritious plants,
- 29. And Olives and Dates,
- 30. And enclosed Gardens, dense with lofty trees,
- 31. And fruits and fodder,-
- 32. For use and convenience to you and your cattle.
- 33. At length, when there comes the Deafening Noise,-
- 34. That Day shall a man flee from his own brother,
- 35. And from his mother and his father,
- 36. And from his wife and his children.
- 37. Each one of them, that Day, will have enough concern (of his own) to make him indifferent to the others.
- 38. Some faces that Day will be beaming,
- 39. Laughing, rejoicing.
- 40. And other faces that Day will be dust-stained,
- 41. Blackness will cover them:
- 42. Such will be the Rejecters of Allah, the doers of iniquity.