SURAH
80: `ABASA (He Frowned).
In the name of Allah, the Gracious,
the Merciful
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He frowned and turned away,
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Because there came to him the blind man.
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But what could tell you but that perhaps he might grow,
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Or that he might receive admonition, and the teaching might profit him?
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As to one who regards himself as self-sufficient,
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To him you attend;
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Though it is no blame to you if he does not grow not.
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But as to him who came to you striving earnestly,
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And with fear,
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Of him were you unmindful.
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By no means! For it is indeed a message of instruction:
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Therefore let who so will, keep it in remembrance.
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In scrolls[1]
held in honour,
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Exalted, kept pure and holy,
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By the hands of scribes,[2]
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Honourable and pious and just.
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Woe to man! What has made him reject Allah?
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From what stuff has he created him?
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From a sperm drop he has created him, and then shapes him in due proportions;
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Then he makes his path smooth for him;
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Then he causes him to die, and puts him in his grave;
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Then, when it is his will, he will raise him up again.
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By no means has he fulfilled what Allah has commanded him.
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Then let man look at his food,
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For we pour forth water in abundance,
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And we split the earth in fragments,
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And produce in it grain,
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And grapes and nutritious plants,
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And olives and dates,
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And enclosed gardens, dense with lofty trees,
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And fruits and fodder,
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For use and convenience to you and your cattle.
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At length, when there comes the deafening noise,
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That day shall a man flee from his own brother,
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And from his mother and his father,
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And from his wife and his children.
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Each one of them, that day, will have enough concern to make him indifferent to
the others.
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Some faces that day will be beaming,
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Laughing, rejoicing.
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And other faces that day will be dust stained.
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Blackness will cover them:
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Such will be the rejecters of Allah, the doers of iniquity.