عبس

1HE FROWNED and turned away

2because the blind man approached him!

3Yet for all thou didst know, [O Muhammad,] he might perhaps have grown in purity,

4or have been reminded [of the truth], and helped by this reminder.

5Now as for him who believes himself to be self-sufficient

6to him didst thou give thy whole attention,

7although thou art not accountable for his failure to attain to purity;

8but as for him who came unto thee full of eagerness

9and in awe [of God]

10him didst thou disregard!

11NAY, VERILY, these [messages] are but a reminder:

12and so, whoever is willing may remember Him

13in [the light of His] revelations blest with dignity,

14lofty and pure,

15[borne] by the hands of messengers

16noble and most virtuous.

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

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

19Out of a drop of sperm He creates him, and thereupon determines his nature,

20and then makes it easy for him to go through life;

21and in the end He causes him to die and brings him to the grave;

22and then, if it be His will, He shall raise him again to life,

23Nay, but [man] has never yet fulfilled what He has enjoined upon him!

24Let man, then, consider [the sources of] his food:

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

26and then We cleave the earth [with new growth], cleaving it asunder,

27and thereupon We cause grain to grow out of it,

28and vines and edible plants,

29and olive trees and date-palms,

30and gardens dense with foliage,

31and fruits and herbage,

32for you and for your animals to enjoy.

33AND SO, when the piercing call [of resurrection] is heard

34on a Day when everyone will [want to] flee from his brother,

35and from his mother and father,

36and from his spouse and his children:

37on that Day, to every one of them will his own state be of sufficient concern.

38Some faces will on that Day be bright with happiness,

39laughing, rejoicing at glad tidings.

40And some faces will on that Day with dust be covered,

41with darkness overspread:

42these, these will be the ones who denied the truth and were immersed in iniquity!