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