| m_ali | |
|---|---|
| 1. * | He frowned and turned away, |
| 2. * | Because the blind man came to him. |
| 3. * | And what would make thee know that he might purify himself, |
| 4. * | Or be mindful, so the Reminder should profit him? |
| 5. * | As for him who considers himself free from need |
| 6. * | To him thou dost attend. |
| 7. * | And no blame is on thee, if he purify himself not. |
| 8. * | And as to him who comes to thee striving hard, |
| 9. * | And he fears -- |
| 10. * | To him thou payest no regard. |
| 11. * | Nay, surely it is a Reminder. |
| 12. * | So let him who will mind it. |
| 13. * | In honoured books, |
| 14. * | Exalted, purified, |
| 15. * | In the hands of scribes, |
| 16. * | Nobel, virtuous. |
| 17. * | Woe to man! How ungrateful is he! |
| 18. * | Of what thing did He create him? |
| 19. * | Of a small life-germ. He creates him, then proportions him, |
| 20. * | Then makes the way easy for him, |
| 21. * | Then he causes him to die, then assigns to him a grave, |
| 22. * | Then when He will, He raises him to life again. |
| 23. * | Nay, but he does not what He commands him. |
| 24. * | Then let man look at his food -- |
| 25. * | How We pour down abundant water, |
| 26. * | Then cleave the earth, cleaving (it) asunder, |
| 27. * | Then cause the grain to grow therein, |
| 28. * | And grapes and clover, |
| 29. * | And the olive and the palm, |
| 30. * | And thick gardens, |
| 31. * | And fruits and herbage -- |
| 32. * | A provision for you and your cattle. |
| 33. * | But when the deafening cry comes, |
| 34. * | The day when a man flees from his brother, |
| 35. * | And his mother and his father, |
| 36. * | And his spouse and his sons. |
| 37. * | Every man of them, that day, will have concern enough to make him indifferent to others. |
| 38. * | Faces on that day will be bright, |
| 39. * | Laughing, joyous. |
| 40. * | And faces on that day will have dust on them, |
| 41. * | Darkness covering them. |
| 42. * | Those are the disbelievers, the wicked. |