Chapter 80, 42 verses
In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. (The Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم) frowned and turned away.
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم عبس وتولى
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. He frowned and turned away
Because there came to him the blind man (i.e. 'Abdullah bin Umm-Maktum, who came to the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم while he was preaching to one or some of the Quraish chiefs).
أن جاءه الأعمى
Because the blind man came unto him.
And how can you know that he might become pure (from sins)?
وما يدريك لعله يزكى
What could inform thee but that he might grow (in grace)
Or he might receive admonition, and the admonition might profit him?
أو يذكر فتنفعه الذكرى
Or take heed and so the reminder might avail him ?
As for him who thinks himself self-sufficient,
أما من استغنى
As for him who thinketh himself independent,
To him you attend;
فأنت له تصدى
Unto him thou payest regard.
What does it matter to you if he will not become pure (from disbelief: you are only a Messenger, your duty is to convey the Message of Allah).
وما عليك ألا يزكى
Yet it is not thy concern if he grow not (in grace).
But as to him who came to you running,
وأما من جاءك يسعى
But as for him who cometh unto thee with earnest purpose
And is afraid (of Allah and His punishment).
وهو يخشى
And hath fear,
Of him you are neglectful and divert your attention to another,
فأنت عنه تلهى
From him thou art distracted.
Nay, (do not do like this); indeed it (this Qur'an) is an admonition.
كلا إنها تذكرة
Nay, but verily it is an Admonishment,
So whoever wills, let him pay attention to it.
فمن شاء ذكره
So let whosoever will pay heed to it,
(It is) in Records held (greatly) in honour (Al-Lauh Al-Mahfuz),
في صحف مكرمة
On honoured leaves
Exalted (in dignity), purified,
مرفوعة مطهرة
Exalted, purified,
In the hands of scribes (angels).
بأيدي سفرة
(Set down) by scribes
Honourable and obedient.
كرام بررة
Noble and righteous.
Be cursed (the disbelieving) man! How ungrateful he is!
قتل الإنسان ما أكفره
Man is (self - )destroyed: how ungrateful!
From what thing did He create him?
من أي شيء خلقه
From what thing doth He create him ?
From Nutfah (male and female semen drops) He created him and then set him in due proportion.
من نطفة خلقه فقدره
From a drop of seed. He createth him and proportioneth him,
Then He makes the Path easy for him.
ثم السبيل يسره
Then maketh the way easy for him,
Then He causes him to die and puts him in his grave.
ثم أماته فأقبره
Then causeth him to die, and burieth him;
Then when it is His Will, He will resurrect him (again).
ثم إذا شاء أنشره
Then, when He will, He bringeth him again to life.
Nay, but (man) has not done what He commanded him.
كلا لما يقض ما أمره
Nay, but (man) hath not done what He commanded him.
Then let man look at his food:
فلينظر الإنسان إلى طعامه
Let man consider his food:
We pour forth water in abundance.
أنا صببنا الماء صبا
How We pour water in showers
And We split the earth in clefts.
ثم شققنا الأرض شقا
Then split the earth in clefts
And We cause therein the grain to grow,
فأنبتنا فيها حبا
And cause the grain to grow therein
And grapes and clover plants (i.e. green fodder for the cattle),
وعنبا وقضبا
And grapes and green fodder
And olives and date-palms,
وزيتونا ونخلا
And olive - trees and palm - trees
And gardens dense with many trees,
وحدائق غلبا
And garden - closes of thick foliage
And fruits and herbage
وفاكهة وأبا
And fruits and grasses:
(To be) a provision and benefit for you and your cattle.
متاعا لكم ولأنعامكم
Provision for you and your cattle.
Then when there comes As-Sakhkhah (the second blowing of the Trumpet on the Day of Resurrection)
فإذا جاءت الصاخة
But when the Shout cometh
That Day shall a man flee from his brother,
يوم يفر المرء من أخيه
On the day when a man fleeth from his brother
And from his mother and his father,
وأمه وأبيه
And his mother and his father
And from his wife and his children.
وصاحبته وبنيه
And his wife and his children,
Everyman that Day will have enough to make him careless of others.
لكل امرئ منهم يومئذ شأن يغنيه
Every man that day will have concern enough to make him heedless (of others).
Some faces that Day will be bright (true believers of Islamic Monotheism),
وجوه يومئذ مسفرة
On that day faces will be bright as dawn,
Laughing, rejoicing at good news (of Paradise).
ضاحكة مستبشرة
Laughing, rejoicing at good news;
And other faces, that Day, will be dust-stained.
ووجوه يومئذ عليها غبرة
And other faces, on that day, with dust upon them,
Darkness will cover them.
ترهقها قترة
Veiled in darkness,
Such will be the Kafarah (disbelievers in Allah, in His Oneness, and in His Messenger Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم, etc.), the Fajarah (wicked evil doers).
أولئك هم الكفرة الفجرة
Those are the disbelievers, the wicked.