80. 'Abasa

بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ

عَبَسَ وَتَوَلَّىٰٓ

In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.

He frowned and turned away

أَن جَآءَهُ ٱلْأَعْمَىٰ

Because the blind man came unto him.

وَمَا يُدْرِيكَ لَعَلَّهُۥ يَزَّكَّىٰٓ

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

أَوْ يَذَّكَّرُ فَتَنفَعَهُ ٱلذِّكْرَىٰٓ

Or take heed and so the reminder might avail him?

أَمَّا مَنِ ٱسْتَغْنَىٰ

As for him who thinketh himself independent,

فَأَنتَ لَهُۥ تَصَدَّىٰ

Unto him thou payest regard.

وَمَا عَلَيْكَ أَلَّا يَزَّكَّىٰ

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

وَأَمَّا مَن جَآءَكَ يَسْعَىٰ

But as for him who cometh unto thee with earnest purpose

وَهُوَ يَخْشَىٰ

And hath fear,

فَأَنتَ عَنْهُ تَلَهَّىٰ

From him thou art distracted.

كَلَّآ إِنَّهَا تَذْكِرَةٌ

Nay, but verily it is an Admonishment,

فَمَن شَآءَ ذَكَرَهُۥ

So let whosoever will pay heed to it,

فِى صُحُفٍ مُّكَرَّمَةٍ

On honoured leaves

مَّرْفُوعَةٍ مُّطَهَّرَةٍۭ

Exalted, purified,

بِأَيْدِى سَفَرَةٍ

(Set down) by scribes

كِرَامٍۭ بَرَرَةٍ

Noble and righteous.

قُتِلَ ٱلْإِنسَـٰنُ مَآ أَكْفَرَهُۥ

Man is (self-)destroyed: how ungrateful!

مِنْ أَىِّ شَىْءٍ خَلَقَهُۥ

From what thing doth He create him?

مِن نُّطْفَةٍ خَلَقَهُۥ فَقَدَّرَهُۥ

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

ثُمَّ ٱلسَّبِيلَ يَسَّرَهُۥ

Then maketh the way easy for him,

ثُمَّ أَمَاتَهُۥ فَأَقْبَرَهُۥ

Then causeth him to die, and burieth him;

ثُمَّ إِذَا شَآءَ أَنشَرَهُۥ

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

كَلَّا لَمَّا يَقْضِ مَآ أَمَرَهُۥ

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

فَلْيَنظُرِ ٱلْإِنسَـٰنُ إِلَىٰ طَعَامِهِۦٓ

Let man consider his food:

أَنَّا صَبَبْنَا ٱلْمَآءَ صَبًّا

How We pour water in showers

ثُمَّ شَقَقْنَا ٱلْأَرْضَ شَقًّا

Then split the earth in clefts

فَأَنۢبَتْنَا فِيهَا حَبًّا

And cause the grain to grow therein

وَعِنَبًا وَقَضْبًا

And grapes and green fodder

وَزَيْتُونًا وَنَخْلًا

And olive-trees and palm-trees

وَحَدَآئِقَ غُلْبًا

And garden-closes of thick foliage

وَفَـٰكِهَةً وَأَبًّا

And fruits and grasses:

مَّتَـٰعًا لَّكُمْ وَلِأَنْعَـٰمِكُمْ

Provision for you and your cattle.

فَإِذَا جَآءَتِ ٱلصَّآخَّةُ

But when the Shout cometh

يَوْمَ يَفِرُّ ٱلْمَرْءُ مِنْ أَخِيهِ

On the day when a man fleeth from his brother

وَأُمِّهِۦ وَأَبِيهِ

And his mother and his father

وَصَـٰحِبَتِهِۦ وَبَنِيهِ

And his wife and his children,

لِكُلِّ ٱمْرِئٍ مِّنْهُمْ يَوْمَئِذٍ شَأْنٌ يُغْنِيهِ

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

وُجُوهٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ مُّسْفِرَةٌ

On that day faces will be bright as dawn,

ضَاحِكَةٌ مُّسْتَبْشِرَةٌ

Laughing, rejoicing at good news;

وَوُجُوهٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ عَلَيْهَا غَبَرَةٌ

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

تَرْهَقُهَا قَتَرَةٌ

Veiled in darkness,

أُو۟لَـٰٓئِكَ هُمُ ٱلْكَفَرَةُ ٱلْفَجَرَةُ

Those are the disbelievers, the wicked.