80. Abasa

1 He frowned and turned away

2 Because the blind man came unto him

3 What could inform thee but that he might grow (in grace)

4 Or take heed and so the reminder might avail him

5 As for him who thinketh himself independent

6 Unto him thou payest regard

7 Yet it is not thy concern if he grow not (in grace)

8 But as for him who cometh unto thee with earnest purpose

9 And hath fear

10 From him thou art distracted

11 Nay, but verily it is an Admonishment

12 So let whosoever will pay heed to it

13 On honoured leaves

14 Exalted, purified

15 (Set down) by scribes

16 Noble and righteous

17 Man is (self-)destroyed: how ungrateful

18 From what thing doth He create him

19 From a drop of seed. He createth him and proportioneth him

20 Then maketh the way easy for him

21 Then causeth him to die, and burieth him

22 Then, when He will, He bringeth him again to life

23 Nay, but (man) hath not done what He commanded him

24 Let man consider his food

25 How We pour water in showers

26 Then split the earth in clefts

27 And cause the grain to grow therein

28 And grapes and green fodder

29 And olive-trees and palm-trees

30 And garden-closes of thick foliage

31 And fruits and grasses

32 Provision for you and your cattle

33 But when the Shout cometh

34 On the day when a man fleeth from his brother

35 And his mother and his father

36 And his wife and his children

37 Every man that day will have concern enough to make him heedless (of others)

38 On that day faces will be bright as dawn

39 Laughing, rejoicing at good news

40 And other faces, on that day, with dust upon them

41 Veiled in darkness

42 Those are the disbelievers, the wicked