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Surah Abasa — سُورَةُ عَبَسَ

He frowned · 42 ayahs · Meccan · surah 80 of 114 · Listen, recited by Abdur-Rahman As-Sudais

عَبَسَ وَتَوَلَّىٰٓ ﴿1﴾

He frowned and turned away (80:1)

أَن جَآءَهُ ٱلْأَعْمَىٰ ﴿2﴾

Because the blind man came unto him. (80:2)

وَمَا يُدْرِيكَ لَعَلَّهُۥ يَزَّكَّىٰٓ ﴿3﴾

What could inform thee but that he might grow (in grace) (80:3)

أَوْ يَذَّكَّرُ فَتَنفَعَهُ ٱلذِّكْرَىٰٓ ﴿4﴾

Or take heed and so the reminder might avail him? (80:4)

أَمَّا مَنِ ٱسْتَغْنَىٰ ﴿5﴾

As for him who thinketh himself independent, (80:5)

فَأَنتَ لَهُۥ تَصَدَّىٰ ﴿6﴾

Unto him thou payest regard. (80:6)

وَمَا عَلَيْكَ أَلَّا يَزَّكَّىٰ ﴿7﴾

Yet it is not thy concern if he grow not (in grace). (80:7)

وَأَمَّا مَن جَآءَكَ يَسْعَىٰ ﴿8﴾

But as for him who cometh unto thee with earnest purpose (80:8)

وَهُوَ يَخْشَىٰ ﴿9﴾

And hath fear, (80:9)

فَأَنتَ عَنْهُ تَلَهَّىٰ ﴿10﴾

From him thou art distracted. (80:10)

كَلَّآ إِنَّهَا تَذْكِرَةٌۭ ﴿11﴾

Nay, but verily it is an Admonishment, (80:11)

فَمَن شَآءَ ذَكَرَهُۥ ﴿12﴾

So let whosoever will pay heed to it, (80:12)

فِى صُحُفٍۢ مُّكَرَّمَةٍۢ ﴿13﴾

On honoured leaves (80:13)

مَّرْفُوعَةٍۢ مُّطَهَّرَةٍۭ ﴿14﴾

Exalted, purified, (80:14)

بِأَيْدِى سَفَرَةٍۢ ﴿15﴾

(Set down) by scribes (80:15)

كِرَامٍۭ بَرَرَةٍۢ ﴿16﴾

Noble and righteous. (80:16)

قُتِلَ ٱلْإِنسَٰنُ مَآ أَكْفَرَهُۥ ﴿17﴾

Man is (self-)destroyed: how ungrateful! (80:17)

مِنْ أَىِّ شَىْءٍ خَلَقَهُۥ ﴿18﴾

From what thing doth He create him? (80:18)

مِن نُّطْفَةٍ خَلَقَهُۥ فَقَدَّرَهُۥ ﴿19﴾

From a drop of seed. He createth him and proportioneth him, (80:19)

ثُمَّ ٱلسَّبِيلَ يَسَّرَهُۥ ﴿20﴾

Then maketh the way easy for him, (80:20)

ثُمَّ أَمَاتَهُۥ فَأَقْبَرَهُۥ ﴿21﴾

Then causeth him to die, and burieth him; (80:21)

ثُمَّ إِذَا شَآءَ أَنشَرَهُۥ ﴿22﴾

Then, when He will, He bringeth him again to life. (80:22)

كَلَّا لَمَّا يَقْضِ مَآ أَمَرَهُۥ ﴿23﴾

Nay, but (man) hath not done what He commanded him. (80:23)

فَلْيَنظُرِ ٱلْإِنسَٰنُ إِلَىٰ طَعَامِهِۦٓ ﴿24﴾

Let man consider his food: (80:24)

أَنَّا صَبَبْنَا ٱلْمَآءَ صَبًّۭا ﴿25﴾

How We pour water in showers (80:25)

ثُمَّ شَقَقْنَا ٱلْأَرْضَ شَقًّۭا ﴿26﴾

Then split the earth in clefts (80:26)

فَأَنۢبَتْنَا فِيهَا حَبًّۭا ﴿27﴾

And cause the grain to grow therein (80:27)

وَعِنَبًۭا وَقَضْبًۭا ﴿28﴾

And grapes and green fodder (80:28)

وَزَيْتُونًۭا وَنَخْلًۭا ﴿29﴾

And olive-trees and palm-trees (80:29)

وَحَدَآئِقَ غُلْبًۭا ﴿30﴾

And garden-closes of thick foliage (80:30)

وَفَٰكِهَةًۭ وَأَبًّۭا ﴿31﴾

And fruits and grasses: (80:31)

مَّتَٰعًۭا لَّكُمْ وَلِأَنْعَٰمِكُمْ ﴿32﴾

Provision for you and your cattle. (80:32)

فَإِذَا جَآءَتِ ٱلصَّآخَّةُ ﴿33﴾

But when the Shout cometh (80:33)

يَوْمَ يَفِرُّ ٱلْمَرْءُ مِنْ أَخِيهِ ﴿34﴾

On the day when a man fleeth from his brother (80:34)

وَأُمِّهِۦ وَأَبِيهِ ﴿35﴾

And his mother and his father (80:35)

وَصَٰحِبَتِهِۦ وَبَنِيهِ ﴿36﴾

And his wife and his children, (80:36)

لِكُلِّ ٱمْرِئٍۢ مِّنْهُمْ يَوْمَئِذٍۢ شَأْنٌۭ يُغْنِيهِ ﴿37﴾

Every man that day will have concern enough to make him heedless (of others). (80:37)

وُجُوهٌۭ يَوْمَئِذٍۢ مُّسْفِرَةٌۭ ﴿38﴾

On that day faces will be bright as dawn, (80:38)

ضَاحِكَةٌۭ مُّسْتَبْشِرَةٌۭ ﴿39﴾

Laughing, rejoicing at good news; (80:39)

وَوُجُوهٌۭ يَوْمَئِذٍ عَلَيْهَا غَبَرَةٌۭ ﴿40﴾

And other faces, on that day, with dust upon them, (80:40)

تَرْهَقُهَا قَتَرَةٌ ﴿41﴾

Veiled in darkness, (80:41)

أُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ هُمُ ٱلْكَفَرَةُ ٱلْفَجَرَةُ ﴿42﴾

Those are the disbelievers, the wicked. (80:42)