He (a disbelieving, haughty man) frowned and turned away
Because (while he was talking with the Messenger) the blind man approached him
What would inform you (O haughty one) but that he might grow in purity (by doing good deeds)
Or that he might grow mindful (of God’s Message), and the reminder benefit him
As for him who deems himself to be independent (not needy of Divine guidance because of pride in his wealth and status)
You (O Messenger) attend to him (so that he may accept Islam and reform)
Though you are not accountable if he does not grow in purity (through acceptance of faith and fulfilling its obligations and responsibilities)
But as for him who came to you eagerly
And he was in awe of God
You divert your attention from him (to the other)
No indeed! It surely is a reminder and an admonition (that suffices for all who come to it with an open heart)
So whoever wills receives admonition and takes heed
(It is recorded) in scrolls greatly honored
Exalted (in God’s sight) and perfectly purified (of falsehood, vanity, and inconsistency)
(Borne) by the hands of angel-envoys
Noble and virtuous
Human is ruined – for how thankless and disbelieving he is
(Does he never consider) from what thing He has created him
From a drop of (seminal) fluid; He has created him and fashioned him in measured proportions (for his shape and for his life)
Thereafter He has made the path (to God) easy for him
Thereafter He causes him to die and buries him
Thereafter, when He wills, He raises him again to life
No indeed! Human has not fulfilled what God enjoined on him
Then, let human consider his food (and so reflect on his Lord’s Mercy and the truth of Resurrection)
That We pour down the water in abundance
Then We split the earth in clefts
And so We enable grain to grow therein
And grapes, and edible plants
And olive-trees and date-palms
And gardens dense with foliage
And (diverse other) fruits and herbage
As a means of livelihood for you and your animals
But when the piercing Cry (heralding the Resurrection) sounds
On that Day when a person flees from his brother
And from his mother and father
And from his spouse and his children
Everyone on that Day has concern of his own enough to make him heedless (of anything else)
Some faces will on that Day be radiant with happines
Smiling, rejoicing at good tidings
And some faces will on that Day be dust-stained
Veiled in darkness
Those are the unbelievers, shameless and dissolute