سُورَةُ عَبَسَ
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بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ
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بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ عَبَسَ وَتَوَلَّىٰٓ
HE FROWNED and turned away
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أَن جَآءَهُ ٱلْأَعْمَىٰ
because the blind man approached him!
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وَمَا يُدْرِيكَ لَعَلَّهُۥ يَزَّكَّىٰٓ
Yet for all thou didst know, [O Muhammad,] he might perhaps have grown in purity,
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أَوْ يَذَّكَّرُ فَتَنفَعَهُ ٱلذِّكْرَىٰٓ
or have been reminded [of the truth], and helped by this reminder.
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أَمَّا مَنِ ٱسْتَغْنَىٰ
Now as for him who believes himself to be self-sufficient
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فَأَنتَ لَهُۥ تَصَدَّىٰ
to him didst thou give thy whole attention,
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وَمَا عَلَيْكَ أَلَّا يَزَّكَّىٰ
although thou art not accountable for his failure to attain to purity;
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وَأَمَّا مَن جَآءَكَ يَسْعَىٰ
but as for him who came unto thee full of eagerness
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وَهُوَ يَخْشَىٰ
and in awe [of God]
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فَأَنتَ عَنْهُ تَلَهَّىٰ
him didst thou disregard!
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كَلَّآ إِنَّهَا تَذْكِرَةٌۭ
NAY, VERILY, these [messages] are but a reminder:
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فَمَن شَآءَ ذَكَرَهُۥ
and so, whoever is willing may remember Him
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فِى صُحُفٍۢ مُّكَرَّمَةٍۢ
in [the light of His] revelations blest with dignity,
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مَّرْفُوعَةٍۢ مُّطَهَّرَةٍۭ
lofty and pure,
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بِأَيْدِى سَفَرَةٍۢ
[borne] by the hands of messengers
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كِرَامٍۭ بَرَرَةٍۢ
noble and most virtuous.
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قُتِلَ ٱلْإِنسَٰنُ مَآ أَكْفَرَهُۥ
[But only too often] man destroys himself: how stubbornly does he deny the truth!
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مِنْ أَىِّ شَىْءٍ خَلَقَهُۥ
[Does man ever consider] out of what substance [God] creates him?
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مِن نُّطْفَةٍ خَلَقَهُۥ فَقَدَّرَهُۥ
Out of a drop of sperm He creates him, and thereupon determines his nature,
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ثُمَّ ٱلسَّبِيلَ يَسَّرَهُۥ
and then makes it easy for him to go through life;
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ثُمَّ أَمَاتَهُۥ فَأَقْبَرَهُۥ
and in the end He causes him to die and brings him to the grave;
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ثُمَّ إِذَا شَآءَ أَنشَرَهُۥ
and then, if it be His will, He shall raise him again to life,
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كَلَّا لَمَّا يَقْضِ مَآ أَمَرَهُۥ
Nay, but [man] has never yet fulfilled what He has enjoined upon him!
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فَلْيَنظُرِ ٱلْإِنسَٰنُ إِلَىٰ طَعَامِهِۦٓ
Let man, then, consider [the sources of] his food:
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أَنَّا صَبَبْنَا ٱلْمَآءَ صَبًّۭا
[how it is] that We pour down water, pouring it down abundantly;
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ثُمَّ شَقَقْنَا ٱلْأَرْضَ شَقًّۭا
and then We cleave the earth [with new growth], cleaving it asunder,
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فَأَنۢبَتْنَا فِيهَا حَبًّۭا
and thereupon We cause grain to grow out of it,
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وَعِنَبًۭا وَقَضْبًۭا
and vines and edible plants,
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وَزَيْتُونًۭا وَنَخْلًۭا
and olive trees and date-palms,
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وَحَدَآئِقَ غُلْبًۭا
and gardens dense with foliage,
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وَفَٰكِهَةًۭ وَأَبًّۭا
and fruits and herbage,
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مَّتَٰعًۭا لَّكُمْ وَلِأَنْعَٰمِكُمْ
for you and for your animals to enjoy.
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فَإِذَا جَآءَتِ ٱلصَّآخَّةُ
AND SO, when the piercing call [of resurrection] is heard
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يَوْمَ يَفِرُّ ٱلْمَرْءُ مِنْ أَخِيهِ
on a Day when everyone will [want to] flee from his brother,
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وَأُمِّهِۦ وَأَبِيهِ
and from his mother and father,
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وَصَٰحِبَتِهِۦ وَبَنِيهِ
and from his spouse and his children:
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لِكُلِّ ٱمْرِئٍۢ مِّنْهُمْ يَوْمَئِذٍۢ شَأْنٌۭ يُغْنِيهِ
on that Day, to every one of them will his own state be of sufficient concern.
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وُجُوهٌۭ يَوْمَئِذٍۢ مُّسْفِرَةٌۭ
Some faces will on that Day be bright with happiness,
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ضَاحِكَةٌۭ مُّسْتَبْشِرَةٌۭ
laughing, rejoicing at glad tidings.
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وَوُجُوهٌۭ يَوْمَئِذٍ عَلَيْهَا غَبَرَةٌۭ
And some faces will on that Day with dust be covered,
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تَرْهَقُهَا قَتَرَةٌ
with darkness overspread:
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أُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ هُمُ ٱلْكَفَرَةُ ٱلْفَجَرَةُ
these, these will be the ones who denied the truth and were immersed in iniquity!
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