بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ عَبَسَ وَتَوَلَّىٰٓ

HE FROWNED and turned away

أَن جَآءَهُ ٱلْأَعْمَىٰ

because the blind man approached him!

وَمَا يُدْرِيكَ لَعَلَّهُۥ يَزَّكَّىٰٓ

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

أَوْ يَذَّكَّرُ فَتَنفَعَهُ ٱلذِّكْرَىٰٓ

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

أَمَّا مَنِ ٱسْتَغْنَىٰ

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

فَأَنتَ لَهُۥ تَصَدَّىٰ

to him didst thou give thy whole attention,

وَمَا عَلَيْكَ أَلَّا يَزَّكَّىٰ

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

وَأَمَّا مَن جَآءَكَ يَسْعَىٰ

but as for him who came unto thee full of eagerness

وَهُوَ يَخْشَىٰ

and in awe [of God]

فَأَنتَ عَنْهُ تَلَهَّىٰ

him didst thou disregard!

كَلَّآ إِنَّهَا تَذْكِرَةٌۭ

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

فَمَن شَآءَ ذَكَرَهُۥ

and so, whoever is willing may remember Him

فِى صُحُفٍۢ مُّكَرَّمَةٍۢ

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

مَّرْفُوعَةٍۢ مُّطَهَّرَةٍۭ

lofty and pure,

بِأَيْدِى سَفَرَةٍۢ

[borne] by the hands of messengers

كِرَامٍۭ بَرَرَةٍۢ

noble and most virtuous.

قُتِلَ ٱلْإِنسَٰنُ مَآ أَكْفَرَهُۥ

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

مِنْ أَىِّ شَىْءٍ خَلَقَهُۥ

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

مِن نُّطْفَةٍ خَلَقَهُۥ فَقَدَّرَهُۥ

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

ثُمَّ ٱلسَّبِيلَ يَسَّرَهُۥ

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

ثُمَّ أَمَاتَهُۥ فَأَقْبَرَهُۥ

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

ثُمَّ إِذَا شَآءَ أَنشَرَهُۥ

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

كَلَّا لَمَّا يَقْضِ مَآ أَمَرَهُۥ

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

فَلْيَنظُرِ ٱلْإِنسَٰنُ إِلَىٰ طَعَامِهِۦٓ

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

أَنَّا صَبَبْنَا ٱلْمَآءَ صَبًّۭا

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

ثُمَّ شَقَقْنَا ٱلْأَرْضَ شَقًّۭا

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

فَأَنۢبَتْنَا فِيهَا حَبًّۭا

and thereupon We cause grain to grow out of it,

وَعِنَبًۭا وَقَضْبًۭا

and vines and edible plants,

وَزَيْتُونًۭا وَنَخْلًۭا

and olive trees and date-palms,

وَحَدَآئِقَ غُلْبًۭا

and gardens dense with foliage,

وَفَٰكِهَةًۭ وَأَبًّۭا

and fruits and herbage,

مَّتَٰعًۭا لَّكُمْ وَلِأَنْعَٰمِكُمْ

for you and for your animals to enjoy.

فَإِذَا جَآءَتِ ٱلصَّآخَّةُ

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

يَوْمَ يَفِرُّ ٱلْمَرْءُ مِنْ أَخِيهِ

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

وَأُمِّهِۦ وَأَبِيهِ

and from his mother and father,

وَصَٰحِبَتِهِۦ وَبَنِيهِ

and from his spouse and his children:

لِكُلِّ ٱمْرِئٍۢ مِّنْهُمْ يَوْمَئِذٍۢ شَأْنٌۭ يُغْنِيهِ

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

وُجُوهٌۭ يَوْمَئِذٍۢ مُّسْفِرَةٌۭ

Some faces will on that Day be bright with happiness,

ضَاحِكَةٌۭ مُّسْتَبْشِرَةٌۭ

laughing, rejoicing at glad tidings.

وَوُجُوهٌۭ يَوْمَئِذٍ عَلَيْهَا غَبَرَةٌۭ

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

تَرْهَقُهَا قَتَرَةٌ

with darkness overspread:

أُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ هُمُ ٱلْكَفَرَةُ ٱلْفَجَرَةُ

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