— 42 verses
Someone frowned and turned away
Because the blind man approached him
How could you know that he might have grown in goodness
Or that he be enlightened and the Reminder might benefit him
As for him who deems himself in no need of Guidance
Unto him you give attention
Yet it is not your responsibility if he grows not in goodness
But as for him who came to you in all eagerness
And feared straying. (2:2)
Him did you disregard
Nay, indeed this is an Advisory
So let him pay heed who will
In Scrolls Dignified
Exalted, Purified
By the hands of Scribes
Honorable and virtuous
Man destroys himself, how ungrateful, rejecting the Sublime Truth
Out of what thing has He created him
From the male and the female gametes He created him, and then fashioned him in due proportion
And then makes the Way easy for him. (Endowed with faculties)
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))
Then, when He will, He shall raise him to life again
Nay, man did not fulfill what He enjoined upon him
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?
How We pour water in showers
And then We split the earth, split and cleave
And cause the grain to grow therein
And vineyards, and fresh vegetation
And olive trees and palm trees
And dense beautiful gardens
And fruits and grasses
Provision for you and your cattle
But when comes the Call
On the Day when a man will flee from his brother
And his mother and his father
And his wife and his children
To everyone on that Day will be enough his own concern
Some faces on that Day will be bright as dawn
Laughing, rejoicing at good news
And some faces on that Day will have dust upon them
With gloom overspread
These, these will be the ones who denied the Truth and divided humanity