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1. *	HE FROWNED, and he turned his back,

2. *	Because the blind man came to him!

3. *	But what assured thee that he would not be cleansed by the Faith,

4. *	Or be warned, and the warning profit him?

5. *	As to him who is wealthy-

6. *	To him thou wast all attention:

7. *	Yet is it not thy concern if he be not cleansed:

8. *	But as to him who cometh to thee in earnest,

9. *	And full of fears-

10. *	Him dost thou neglect.

11. *	Nay! but it (the Koran) is a warning;

12. *	(And whoso is willing beareth it in mind)

13. *	Written on honoured pages,

14. *	Exalted, purified,

15. *	By the hands of Scribes, honoured, righteous.

16. *	Cursed be man! What hath made him unbelieving?

17. *	Of what thing did God create him?

18. *	Out of moist germs.

19. *	He created him and fashioned him,

20. *	Then made him an easy passage from the womb,

21. *	Then causeth him to die and burieth him;

22. *	Then, when he pleaseth, will raise him again to life.

23. *	Aye! but man hath not yet fulfilled the bidding of his Lord.

24. *	Let man look at his food:

25. *	It was We who rained down the copious rains,

26. *	Then cleft the earth with clefts,

27. *	And caused the upgrowth of the grain,

28. *	And grapes and healing herbs,

29. *	And the olive and the palm,

30. *	And enclosed gardens thick with trees,

31. *	And fruits and herbage,

32. *	For the service of yourselves and of your cattle.

33. *	But when the stunning trumpet-blast shall arrive,

34. *	On that day shall a man fly from his brother,

35. *	And his mother and his father,

36. *	And his wife and his children;

37. *	For every man of them on that day his own concerns shall be enough.

38. *	There shall be faces on that day radiant,

39. *	Laughing and joyous:

40. *	And faces on that day with dust upon them:

41. *	Blackness shall cover them!

42. *	These are the Infidels, the Impure.