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.
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. He frowned and turned away
(The Prophet) 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).
Because the blind man came unto him.
Because there came to him the blind man (interrupting).
And how can you know that he might become pure (from sins)?
What could inform thee but that he might grow (in grace)
But what could tell thee but that perchance he might grow (in spiritual understanding)? -
Or he might receive admonition, and the admonition might profit him?
Or take heed and so the reminder might avail him ?
Or that he might receive admonition, and the teaching might profit him?
As for him who thinks himself self-sufficient,
As for him who thinketh himself independent,
As to one who regards Himself as self - sufficient,
To him you attend;
Unto him thou payest regard.
To him dost thou attend;
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).
Yet it is not thy concern if he grow not (in grace).
Though it is no blame to thee if he grow not (in spiritual understanding).
But as to him who came to you running,
But as for him who cometh unto thee with earnest purpose
But as to him who came to thee striving earnestly,
And is afraid (of Allah and His punishment).
And hath fear,
And with fear (in his heart),
Of him you are neglectful and divert your attention to another,
From him thou art distracted.
Of him wast thou unmindful.
Nay, (do not do like this); indeed it (this Qur'an) is an admonition.
Nay, but verily it is an Admonishment,
By no means (should it be so)! For it is indeed a Message of instruction:
So whoever wills, let him pay attention to it.
So let whosoever will pay heed to it,
Therefore let whoso will, keep it in remembrance.
(It is) in Records held (greatly) in honour (Al-Lauh Al-Mahfuz),
On honoured leaves
(It is) in Books held (greatly) in honour,
Exalted (in dignity), purified,
Exalted, purified,
Exalted (in dignity), kept pure and holy,
In the hands of scribes (angels).
(Set down) by scribes
(Written) by the hands of scribes -
Honourable and obedient.
Noble and righteous.
Honourable and Pious and Just.
Be cursed (the disbelieving) man! How ungrateful he is!
Man is (self - )destroyed: how ungrateful!
Woe to man! What hath made him reject Allah;
From what thing did He create him?
From what thing doth He create him ?
From what stuff hath He created him?
From Nutfah (male and female semen drops) He created him and then set him in due proportion.
From a drop of seed. He createth him and proportioneth him,
From a sperm - drop: He hath created him, and then mouldeth him in due proportions;
Then He makes the Path easy for him.
Then maketh the way easy for him,
Then doth He make His path smooth for him;
Then He causes him to die and puts him in his grave.
Then causeth him to die, and burieth him;
Then He causeth him to die, and putteth him in his grave;
Then when it is His Will, He will resurrect him (again).
Then, when He will, He bringeth him again to life.
Then, when it is His Will, He will raise him up (again).
Nay, but (man) has not done what He commanded him.
Nay, but (man) hath not done what He commanded him.
By no means hath he fulfilled what Allah hath commanded him.
Then let man look at his food:
Let man consider his food:
Then let man look at his food, (and how We provide it):
We pour forth water in abundance.
How We pour water in showers
For that We pour forth water in abundance,
And We split the earth in clefts.
Then split the earth in clefts
And We split the earth in fragments,
And We cause therein the grain to grow,
And cause the grain to grow therein
And produce therein corn,
And grapes and clover plants (i.e. green fodder for the cattle),
And grapes and green fodder
And Grapes and nutritious plants,
And olives and date-palms,
And olive - trees and palm - trees
And Olives and Dates,
And gardens dense with many trees,
And garden - closes of thick foliage
And enclosed Gardens, dense with lofty trees,
And fruits and herbage
And fruits and grasses:
And fruits and fodder, -
(To be) a provision and benefit for you and your cattle.
Provision for you and your cattle.
For use and convenience to you and your cattle.
Then when there comes As-Sakhkhah (the second blowing of the Trumpet on the Day of Resurrection)
But when the Shout cometh
At length, when there comes the Deafening Noise, -
That Day shall a man flee from his brother,
On the day when a man fleeth from his brother
That Day shall a man flee from his own brother,
And from his mother and his father,
And his mother and his father
And from his mother and his father,
And from his wife and his children.
And his wife and his children,
And from his wife and his children.
Everyman that Day will have enough to make him careless of others.
Every man that day will have concern enough to make him heedless (of others).
Each one of them, that Day, will have enough concern (of his own) to make him indifferent to the others.
Some faces that Day will be bright (true believers of Islamic Monotheism),
On that day faces will be bright as dawn,
Some faces that Day will be beaming,
Laughing, rejoicing at good news (of Paradise).
Laughing, rejoicing at good news;
Laughing, rejoicing.
And other faces, that Day, will be dust-stained.
And other faces, on that day, with dust upon them,
And other faces that Day will be dust - stained,
Darkness will cover them.
Veiled in darkness,
Blackness will cover them:
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).
Those are the disbelievers, the wicked.
Such will be the Rejecters of Allah, the doers of iniquity.