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| 1. * | HE FROWNED and turned away |
| 2. * | because the blind man approached him!* |
| 3. * | Yet for all thou didst know, [O Muhammad,] he might perhaps have grown in purity, |
| 4. * | or have been reminded [of the truth], and helped by this reminder. |
| 5. * | Now as for him who believes himself to be self-sufficient* - |
| 6. * | to him didst thou give thy whole attention, |
| 7. * | although thou art not accountable for his failure to attain to purity;* |
| 8. * | but as for him who came unto thee full of eagerness |
| 9. * | and in awe [of God] |
| 10. * | him didst thou disregard! |
| 11. * | NAY, VERILY, these [messages] are but a reminder:* |
| 12. * | and so, whoever is willing may remember Him |
| 13. * | in [the light of His] revelations blest with dignity, |
| 14. * | lofty and pure, |
| 15. * | [borne] by the hands of messengers |
| 16. * | noble and most virtuous. |
| 17. * | [But only too often] man destroys himself:* how stubbornly does he deny the truth! |
| 18. * | [Does man ever consider] out of what substance [God] creates him? |
| 19. * | Out of a drop of sperm He creates him, and thereupon determines his nature,* |
| 20. * | and then makes it easy for him to go through life;* |
| 21. * | and in the end He causes him to die and brings him to the grave; |
| 22. * | and then, if it be His will, He shall raise him again to life, |
| 23. * | Nay, but [man] has never yet fulfilled what He has enjoined upon him!* |
| 24. * | Let man, then, consider [the sources of] his food: |
| 25. * | [how it is] that We pour down water, pouring it down abundantly; |
| 26. * | and then We cleave the earth [with new growth], cleaving it asunder, |
| 27. * | and thereupon We cause grain to grow out of it, |
| 28. * | and vines and edible plants, |
| 29. * | and olive trees and date-palms, |
| 30. * | and gardens dense with foliage, |
| 31. * | and fruits and herbage, |
| 32. * | for you and for your animals to enjoy.* |
| 33. * | AND SO,* when the piercing call [of resurrection] is heard |
| 34. * | on a Day when everyone will [want to] flee from his brother, |
| 35. * | and from his mother and father, |
| 36. * | and from his spouse and his children: |
| 37. * | on that Day, to every one of them will his own state be of sufficient concern. |
| 38. * | Some faces will on that Day be bright with happiness, |
| 39. * | laughing, rejoicing at glad tidings. |
| 40. * | And some faces will on that Day with dust be covered, |
| 41. * | with darkness overspread: |
| 42. * | these, these will be the ones who denied the truth and were immersed in iniquity! |