HE FROWNED and turned awa
because the blind man approached him
Yet for all thou didst know, [O Muhammad,] he might perhaps have grown in purity
or have been reminded [of the truth], and helped by this reminder
Now as for him who believes himself to be self-sufficient
to him didst thou give thy whole attention
although thou art not accountable for his failure to attain to purity
but as for him who came unto thee full of eagernes
and in awe [of God]
him didst thou disregard
NAY, VERILY, these [messages] are but a reminder
and so, whoever is willing may remember Hi
in [the light of His] revelations blest with dignity
lofty and pure
[borne] by the hands of messenger
noble and most virtuous
[But only too often] man destroys himself: how stubbornly does he deny the truth
[Does man ever consider] out of what substance [God] creates him
Out of a drop of sperm He creates him, and thereupon determines his nature
and then makes it easy for him to go through life
and in the end He causes him to die and brings him to the grave
and then, if it be His will, He shall raise him again to life
Nay, but [man] has never yet fulfilled what He has enjoined upon him
Let man, then, consider [the sources of] his food
[how it is] that We pour down water, pouring it down abundantly
and then We cleave the earth [with new growth], cleaving it asunder
and thereupon We cause grain to grow out of it
and vines and edible plants
and olive trees and date-palms
and gardens dense with foliage
and fruits and herbage
for you and for your animals to enjoy
AND SO, when the piercing call [of resurrection] is hear
on a Day when everyone will [want to] flee from his brother
and from his mother and father
and from his spouse and his children
on that Day, to every one of them will his own state be of sufficient concern
Some faces will on that Day be bright with happiness
laughing, rejoicing at glad tidings
And some faces will on that Day with dust be covered
with darkness overspread
these, these will be the ones who denied the truth and were immersed in iniquity