سُورَةُ عَبَسَ

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HE FROWNED and turned away

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because the blind man approached him!

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Yet for all thou didst know, [O Muhammad,] he might perhaps have grown in purity,

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or have been reminded [of the truth], and helped by this reminder.

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Now as for him who believes himself to be self-sufficient

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to him didst thou give thy whole attention,

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although thou art not accountable for his failure to attain to purity;

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but as for him who came unto thee full of eagerness

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and in awe [of God]

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him didst thou disregard!

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NAY, VERILY, these [messages] are but a reminder:

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and so, whoever is willing may remember Him

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in [the light of His] revelations blest with dignity,

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lofty and pure,

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[borne] by the hands of messengers

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noble and most virtuous.

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[But only too often] man destroys himself: how stubbornly does he deny the truth!

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[Does man ever consider] out of what substance [God] creates him?

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Out of a drop of sperm He creates him, and thereupon determines his nature,

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and then makes it easy for him to go through life;

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and in the end He causes him to die and brings him to the grave;

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and then, if it be His will, He shall raise him again to life,

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Nay, but [man] has never yet fulfilled what He has enjoined upon him!

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Let man, then, consider [the sources of] his food:

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[how it is] that We pour down water, pouring it down abundantly;

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and then We cleave the earth [with new growth], cleaving it asunder,

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and thereupon We cause grain to grow out of it,

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and vines and edible plants,

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and olive trees and date-palms,

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and gardens dense with foliage,

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and fruits and herbage,

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for you and for your animals to enjoy.

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AND SO, when the piercing call [of resurrection] is heard

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on a Day when everyone will [want to] flee from his brother,

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and from his mother and father,

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and from his spouse and his children:

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on that Day, to every one of them will his own state be of sufficient concern.

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Some faces will on that Day be bright with happiness,

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laughing, rejoicing at glad tidings.

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And some faces will on that Day with dust be covered,

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with darkness overspread:

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these, these will be the ones who denied the truth and were immersed in iniquity!