English - Chapter 80 - Abasa

HE FROWNED and turned away

because the blind man approached him

Yet for all thou didst know, [O Muhammad,] he might perhaps have grown in purity

or have been reminded [of the truth], and helped by this reminder

Now as for him who believes himself to be self-sufficient

to him didst thou give thy whole attention

although thou art not accountable for his failure to attain to purity

but as for him who came unto thee full of eagerness

and in awe [of God]

him didst thou disregard

NAY, VERILY, these [messages] are but a reminder

and so, whoever is willing may remember Him

in [the light of His] revelations blest with dignity

lofty and pure

[borne] by the hands of messengers

noble and most virtuous

[But only too often] man destroys himself: how stubbornly does he deny the truth

[Does man ever consider] out of what substance [God] creates him

Out of a drop of sperm He creates him, and thereupon determines his nature

and then makes it easy for him to go through life

and in the end He causes him to die and brings him to the grave

and then, if it be His will, He shall raise him again to life

Nay, but [man] has never yet fulfilled what He has enjoined upon him

Let man, then, consider [the sources of] his food

[how it is] that We pour down water, pouring it down abundantly

and then We cleave the earth [with new growth], cleaving it asunder

and thereupon We cause grain to grow out of it

and vines and edible plants

and olive trees and date-palms

and fruits and herbage

for you and for your animals to enjoy

AND SO, when the piercing call [of resurrection] is heard

on a Day when everyone will [want to] flee from his brother

and from his mother and father

and from his spouse and his children

on that Day, to every one of them will his own state be of sufficient concern

Some faces will on that Day be bright with happiness

laughing, rejoicing at glad tidings

And some faces will on that Day with dust be covered

with darkness overspread

these, these will be the ones who denied the truth and were immersed in iniquity