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Surah Abasa ( He frowned ) - Aya count 42
عَبَسَ وَتَوَلَّىٰ
( 1 ) 
Someone frowned and turned away.
أَن جَاءَهُ الْأَعْمَىٰ
( 2 ) Because the blind man approached him.
وَمَا يُدْرِيكَ لَعَلَّهُ يَزَّكَّىٰ
( 3 ) How could you know that he might have grown in goodness,
أَوْ يَذَّكَّرُ فَتَنفَعَهُ الذِّكْرَىٰ
( 4 ) Or that he be enlightened and the Reminder might benefit him?
أَمَّا مَنِ اسْتَغْنَىٰ
( 5 ) As for him who deems himself in no need of Guidance,
فَأَنتَ لَهُ تَصَدَّىٰ
( 6 ) Unto him you give attention.
وَمَا عَلَيْكَ أَلَّا يَزَّكَّىٰ
( 7 ) Yet it is not your responsibility if he grows not in goodness.
وَأَمَّا مَن جَاءَكَ يَسْعَىٰ
( 8 ) But as for him who came to you in all eagerness,
وَهُوَ يَخْشَىٰ
( 9 ) And feared straying. (2:2).
فَأَنتَ عَنْهُ تَلَهَّىٰ
( 10 ) Him did you disregard!
كَلَّا إِنَّهَا تَذْكِرَةٌ
( 11 ) Nay, indeed this is an Advisory.
فَمَن شَاءَ ذَكَرَهُ
( 12 ) So let him pay heed who will.
فِي صُحُفٍ مُّكَرَّمَةٍ
( 13 ) In Scrolls Dignified.
مَّرْفُوعَةٍ مُّطَهَّرَةٍ
( 14 ) Exalted, Purified.
بِأَيْدِي سَفَرَةٍ
( 15 ) By the hands of Scribes.
كِرَامٍ بَرَرَةٍ
( 16 ) Honorable and virtuous.
قُتِلَ الْإِنسَانُ مَا أَكْفَرَهُ
( 17 ) Man destroys himself, how ungrateful, rejecting the Sublime Truth!
مِنْ أَيِّ شَيْءٍ خَلَقَهُ
( 18 ) Out of what thing has He created him?
مِن نُّطْفَةٍ خَلَقَهُ فَقَدَّرَهُ
( 19 ) From the male and the female gametes He created him, and then fashioned him in due proportion.
ثُمَّ السَّبِيلَ يَسَّرَهُ
( 20 ) And then makes the Way easy for him. (Endowed with faculties).
ثُمَّ أَمَاتَهُ فَأَقْبَرَهُ
( 21 ) Then causes him to die and brings him to disintegrated states. ('Qabr' = Grave = Disintegrated state = The state of sleep between physical death and Resurrection (36:52)).
ثُمَّ إِذَا شَاءَ أَنشَرَهُ
( 22 ) Then, when He will, He shall raise him to life again.
كَلَّا لَمَّا يَقْضِ مَا أَمَرَهُ
( 23 ) Nay, man did not fulfill what He enjoined upon him.
فَلْيَنظُرِ الْإِنسَانُ إِلَىٰ طَعَامِهِ
( 24 ) 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?)
أَنَّا صَبَبْنَا الْمَاءَ صَبًّا
( 25 ) How We pour water in showers.
ثُمَّ شَقَقْنَا الْأَرْضَ شَقًّا
( 26 ) And then We split the earth, split and cleave.
فَأَنبَتْنَا فِيهَا حَبًّا
( 27 ) And cause the grain to grow therein.
وَعِنَبًا وَقَضْبًا
( 28 ) And vineyards, and fresh vegetation.
وَزَيْتُونًا وَنَخْلًا
( 29 ) And olive trees and palm trees.
وَحَدَائِقَ غُلْبًا
( 30 ) And dense beautiful gardens.
وَفَاكِهَةً وَأَبًّا
( 31 ) And fruits and grasses.
مَّتَاعًا لَّكُمْ وَلِأَنْعَامِكُمْ
( 32 ) Provision for you and your cattle.
فَإِذَا جَاءَتِ الصَّاخَّةُ
( 33 ) But when comes the Call,
يَوْمَ يَفِرُّ الْمَرْءُ مِنْ أَخِيهِ
( 34 ) On the Day when a man will flee from his brother,
وَأُمِّهِ وَأَبِيهِ
( 35 ) And his mother and his father,
وَصَاحِبَتِهِ وَبَنِيهِ
( 36 ) And his wife and his children.
لِكُلِّ امْرِئٍ مِّنْهُمْ يَوْمَئِذٍ شَأْنٌ يُغْنِيهِ
( 37 ) To everyone on that Day will be enough his own concern.
وُجُوهٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ مُّسْفِرَةٌ
( 38 ) Some faces on that Day will be bright as dawn.
ضَاحِكَةٌ مُّسْتَبْشِرَةٌ
( 39 ) Laughing, rejoicing at good news.
وَوُجُوهٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ عَلَيْهَا غَبَرَةٌ
( 40 ) And some faces on that Day will have dust upon them,
تَرْهَقُهَا قَتَرَةٌ
( 41 ) With gloom overspread.
أُولَٰئِكَ هُمُ الْكَفَرَةُ الْفَجَرَةُ
( 42 ) These, these will be the ones who denied the Truth and divided humanity.
