Chap 80: HE FROWNED! (80:0)

(The Prophet) frowned and turned away, (80:1)

Because there came to him the blind man (interrupting) (80:2)

But what could tell thee but that perchance he might grow (in spiritual understanding)?- (80:3)

Or that he might receive admonition, and the teaching might profit him? (80:4)

As to one who regards Himself as self-sufficient, (80:5)

To him dost thou attend; (80:6)

Though it is no blame to thee if he grow not (in spiritual understanding) (80:7)

But as to him who came to thee striving earnestly, (80:8)

And with fear (in his heart), (80:9)

Of him wast thou unmindful (80:10)

By no means (should it be so)! For it is indeed a Message of instruction: (80:11)

Therefore let whoso will, keep it in remembrance (80:12)

(It is) in Books held (greatly) in honour, (80:13)

Exalted (in dignity), kept pure and holy, (80:14)

(Written) by the hands of scribes- (80:15)

Honourable and Pious and Just (80:16)

Woe to man! What hath made him reject God; (80:17)

From what stuff hath He created him? (80:18)

From a sperm-drop: He hath created him, and then mouldeth him in due proportions; (80:19)

Then doth He make His path smooth for him; (80:20)

Then He causeth him to die, and putteth him in his grave; (80:21)

Then, when it is His Will, He will raise him up (again) (80:22)

By no means hath he fulfilled what God hath commanded him (80:23)

Then let man look at his food, (and how We provide it): (80:24)

For that We pour forth water in abundance, (80:25)

And We split the earth in fragments, (80:26)

And produce therein corn, (80:27)

And Grapes and nutritious plants, (80:28)

And Olives and Dates, (80:29)

And enclosed Gardens, dense with lofty trees, (80:30)

And fruits and fodder,- (80:31)

For use and convenience to you and your cattle (80:32)

At length, when there comes the Deafening Noise,- (80:33)

That Day shall a man flee from his own brother, (80:34)

And from his mother and his father, (80:35)

And from his wife and his children (80:36)

Each one of them, that Day, will have enough concern (of his own) to make him indifferent to the others (80:37)

Some faces that Day will be beaming, (80:38)

Laughing, rejoicing (80:39)

And other faces that Day will be dust-stained, (80:40)

Blackness will cover them: (80:41)

Such will be the Rejecters of God, the doers of iniquity (80:42)

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