English - Chapter 80 - Abasa

He (a disbelieving, haughty man) frowned and turned away

Because (while he was talking with the Messenger) the blind man approached him

What would inform you (O haughty one) but that he might grow in purity (by doing good deeds)

Or that he might grow mindful (of God’s Message), and the reminder benefit him

As for him who deems himself to be independent (not needy of Divine guidance because of pride in his wealth and status)

You (O Messenger) attend to him (so that he may accept Islam and reform)

Though you are not accountable if he does not grow in purity (through acceptance of faith and fulfilling its obligations and responsibilities)

But as for him who came to you eagerly

And he was in awe of God

You divert your attention from him (to the other)

No indeed! It surely is a reminder and an admonition (that suffices for all who come to it with an open heart)

So whoever wills receives admonition and takes heed

(It is recorded) in scrolls greatly honored

Exalted (in God’s sight) and perfectly purified (of falsehood, vanity, and inconsistency)

(Borne) by the hands of angel-envoys

Noble and virtuous

Human is ruined – for how thankless and disbelieving he is

(Does he never consider) from what thing He has created him

From a drop of (seminal) fluid; He has created him and fashioned him in measured proportions (for his shape and for his life)

Thereafter He has made the path (to God) easy for him

Thereafter He causes him to die and buries him

Thereafter, when He wills, He raises him again to life

No indeed! Human has not fulfilled what God enjoined on him

Then, let human consider his food (and so reflect on his Lord’s Mercy and the truth of Resurrection)

That We pour down the water in abundance

Then We split the earth in clefts

And so We enable grain to grow therein

And grapes, and edible plants

And olive-trees and date-palms

And gardens dense with foliage

And (diverse other) fruits and herbage

As a means of livelihood for you and your animals

But when the piercing Cry (heralding the Resurrection) sounds

On that Day when a person flees from his brother

And from his mother and father

And from his spouse and his children

Everyone on that Day has concern of his own enough to make him heedless (of anything else)

Some faces will on that Day be radiant with happiness

And some faces will on that Day be dust-stained

Veiled in darkness

Those are the unbelievers, shameless and dissolute