| qxp | |
|---|---|
| 1. * | Someone frowned and turned away. |
| 2. * | Because the blind man approached him. |
| 3. * | How could you know that he might have grown in goodness, |
| 4. * | Or that he be enlightened and the Reminder might benefit him? |
| 5. * | As for him who deems himself in no need of Guidance, |
| 6. * | Unto him you give attention. |
| 7. * | Yet it is not your responsibility if he grows not in goodness. |
| 8. * | But as for him who came to you in all eagerness, |
| 9. * | And feared straying. (2:2). |
| 10. * | Him did you disregard! |
| 11. * | Nay, indeed this is an Advisory. |
| 12. * | So let him pay heed who will. |
| 13. * | In Scrolls Dignified. |
| 14. * | Exalted, Purified. |
| 15. * | By the hands of Scribes. |
| 16. * | Honorable and virtuous. |
| 17. * | Man destroys himself, how ungrateful, rejecting the Sublime Truth! |
| 18. * | Out of what thing has He created him? |
| 19. * | From the male and the female gametes He created him, and then fashioned him in due proportion. |
| 20. * | And then makes the Way easy for him. (Endowed with faculties). |
| 21. * | Then causes him to die and brings him to disintegrated states. ('Qabr' = Grave = Disintegrated state = The state of sleep between physical death and Resurrection (36:52)). |
| 22. * | Then, when He will, He shall raise him to life again. |
| 23. * | Nay, man did not fulfill what He enjoined upon him. |
| 24. * | Let man consider his food. (His own food has involved so many hands from the field to the mouth. Shouldn't he share Our provision with others?) |
| 25. * | How We pour water in showers. |
| 26. * | And then We split the earth, split and cleave. |
| 27. * | And cause the grain to grow therein. |
| 28. * | And vineyards, and fresh vegetation. |
| 29. * | And olive trees and palm trees. |
| 30. * | And dense beautiful gardens. |
| 31. * | And fruits and grasses. |
| 32. * | Provision for you and your cattle. |
| 33. * | But when comes the Call, |
| 34. * | On the Day when a man will flee from his brother, |
| 35. * | And his mother and his father, |
| 36. * | And his wife and his children. |
| 37. * | To everyone on that Day will be enough his own concern. |
| 38. * | Some faces on that Day will be bright as dawn. |
| 39. * | Laughing, rejoicing at good news. |
| 40. * | And some faces on that Day will have dust upon them, |
| 41. * | With gloom overspread. |
| 42. * | These, these will be the ones who denied the Truth and divided humanity. |