Surah “He Frowned”

as rendered by Edward Henry Palmer — 42 verses

He frowned and turned his back
for that there came to him a blind man
But what should make thee know whether haply he may be purified
or may be mindful and the reminder profit him
But as for him who is wealthy
thou dost attend to him
and thou dost not care that he is not purified
but as for him who comes to thee earnestl
fearing the while
from him thou art diverted
Nay! verily, it is a memorial
and whoso pleases will remember it
In honoured page
exalted, purified
in the hands o
noble, righteous scribes
May man be killed! how ungrateful he is
Of what did He create him
Of a clot. He created him and fated him
then the path He did make easy for him
then He killed him, and laid him in the tomb
then when He pleases will He raise him up again
Nay, he has not fulfilled his bidding
But let man look unto his foods
Verily, we have poured the water out in torrents
then we have cleft the earth asunder
and made to grow therefrom the grain
and the grape, and the hay
and the olive, and the palm
and gardens closely planted
and fruits, and grass,
a provision for you and for your cattle
But when the stunning noise shall come
on the day when man shall flee from his brothe
and his mother and his father
and his spouse and his sons
Every man among them on that day shall have a business to employ him
Faces on that day shall be bright,
laughing, joyous
and faces shall have dust upon them,
darkness shall cover them
those are the wicked misbelievers