80. 'Abasa

He [i.e., the Prophet (ﷺ) ] frowned and turned away

He frowned and turned away

Someone frowned and turned away

Because there came to him the blind man,1 [interrupting].

when the blind man approached him

Because the blind man approached him

But what would make you perceive, [O Muḥammad], that perhaps he might be purified1

for how can you know that he might seek to purify himself

How could you know that he might have grown in goodness

Or be reminded and the remembrance would benefit him?

or take heed and derive benefit from [Our] warning

Or that he be enlightened and the Reminder might benefit him

As for he who thinks himself without need,1

As for him who was indifferent

As for him who deems himself in no need of Guidance

To him you give attention.

you eagerly attended to him

Unto him you give attention

And not upon you [is any blame] if he will not be purified.1

though you are not to be blamed if he would not purify himself

Yet it is not your responsibility if he grows not in goodness

But as for he who came to you striving [for knowledge]

but as for one who comes to you, eagerly

But as for him who came to you in all eagerness

While he fears [Allāh],

and in awe of God

And feared straying

From him you are distracted.

you pay him no heed

Him did you disregard

No! Indeed, they [i.e., these verses] are a reminder;

Indeed, this [Quran] is an admonition

Nay, indeed this is an Advisory

So whoever wills may remember it.1

Let him who will, pay heed to it

So let him pay heed who will

[It is recorded] in honored sheets,

It is set down on honoured pages

In Scrolls Dignified

Exalted and purified,

exalted and purified

Exalted, Purified

[Carried] by the hands of messenger-angels,

by the hands of

By the hands of Scribes

Noble and dutiful.

noble and virtuous scribes

Honorable and virtuous

Destroyed [i.e., cursed] is man;1 how disbelieving is he.

Woe to man! How ungrateful he is

Man destroys himself, how ungrateful, rejecting the Sublime Truth

From what thing [i.e., substance] did He create him?

Of what [stuff] has He created him

Out of what thing has He created him

From a sperm-drop He created him and destined for him;1

Out of a drop of sperm! He creates and proportions him

From the male and the female gametes He created him, and then fashioned him in due proportion

Then He eased the way for him;1

He makes his path easy for him

And then makes the Way easy for him. (Endowed with faculties)

Then He causes his death and provides a grave for him.1

Then He causes him to die and be buried

Then causes him to die and brings him to disintegrated states. ('Qabr' = Grave = Disintegrated state = The state of sleep between physical death and Resurrection)

Then when He wills, He will resurrect him.

Then when He pleases, He will bring him back to life

Then, when He will, He shall raise him to life again

No! He [i.e., man] has not yet accomplished what He commanded him.

Yet man declines to do His bidding

Nay, man did not fulfill what He enjoined upon him

Then let mankind look at his food -

Let man reflect on the food he eats

Let man consider his food. (His own food has involved so many hands from the field to the mouth. Shouldn't he share Our provision with others)

How We poured down water in torrents,

We let the rain pour down in torrents

How We pour water in showers

Then We broke open the earth, splitting [it with sprouts],

and then We cleaved the earth asunder

And then We split the earth, split and cleave

And caused to grow within it grain

We make the grain grow out of it

And cause the grain to grow therein

And grapes and herbage

and grape vines and vegetables

And vineyards, and fresh vegetation

And olive and palm trees

and olive trees and date palms

And olive trees and palm trees

And gardens of dense shrubbery

and burgeoning enclosed gardens

And dense beautiful gardens

And fruit and grass -

and fruits and fodder

And fruits and grasses

[As] enjoyment [i.e., provision] for you and your grazing livestock.

as provision for you and for your cattle to enjoy

Provision for you and your cattle

But when there comes the Deafening Blast1

But when the deafening blast is sounded

But when comes the Call

On the Day a man will flee from his brother

on that Day a man shall flee from his own brother

On the Day when a man will flee from his brother

And his mother and his father

his mother, his father

And his mother and his father

And his wife and his children,

his wife and his sons

And his wife and his children

For every man, that Day, will be a matter adequate for him.1

on that Day every man among them will have enough concern of his own

To everyone on that Day will be enough his own concern

[Some] faces, that Day, will be bright -

on that Day some faces will be beaming

Some faces on that Day will be bright as dawn

Laughing, rejoicing at good news.

laughing, and rejoicing

Laughing, rejoicing at good news

And [other] faces, that Day, will have upon them dust.

but some faces will be covered with dust

And some faces on that Day will have dust upon them

Blackness will cover them.

and overcast with gloom

With gloom overspread

Those are the disbelievers, the wicked ones.

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

These, these will be the ones who denied the Truth and divided humanity