He frowned and turned awa
when the blind man approached him
And how do you know, maybe he would purify himself
or take admonition, and the admonition would benefit him
But as for someone who is self-complacent
you attend to him
though you are not liable if he does not purify himself
But he who comes hurrying to you
while he fears [Allah]
you are neglectful of him
No indeed! These [verses of the Qur’an] are a reminde
—so let anyone who wishes remember it—
in honoured scriptures
exalted and purified
in the hands of envoys
noble and pious
Perish man! How ungrateful is he
From what has He created him
He has created him from a drop of [seminal] fluid, and then proportioned him
Then He made the way easy for him
then He made him die and buried him
and then, when He wished, resurrected him
No indeed! He has not yet carried out what He had commanded him
So let man observe his food
We poured down water plenteously
then We split the earth into fissure
and made the grain grow in it
and vines and vegetables
olives and date palms
and densely-planted gardens
fruits and pastures
as a sustenance for you and your livestock
So when the deafening Cry come
—the day when a man will evade his brother
his mother and his father
his spouse and his sons—
that day each of them will have a task to keep him preoccupied
That day some faces will be bright
laughing and joyous
And some faces on that day will be covered with dust
overcast with gloom
It is they who are the faithless, the vicious