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[1] HE FROWNED and turned away
[2] because the blind man approached him!
[3] Yet for all thou didst know, [O Muhammad,] he might perhaps have grown in purity,
[4] or have been reminded [of the truth], and helped by this reminder.
[5] Now as for him who believes himself to be self-sufficient
[6] to him didst thou give thy whole attention,
[7] although thou art not accountable for his failure to attain to purity;
[8] but as for him who came unto thee full of eagerness
[9] and in awe [of God]
[10] him didst thou disregard!
[11] NAY, VERILY, these [messages] are but a reminder:
[12] and so, whoever is willing may remember Him
[13] in [the light of His] revelations blest with dignity,
[14] lofty and pure,
[15] [borne] by the hands of messengers
[16] noble and most virtuous.
[17] [But only too often] man destroys himself: how stubbornly does he deny the truth!
[18] [Does man ever consider] out of what substance [God] creates him?
[19] Out of a drop of sperm He creates him, and thereupon determines his nature,
[20] and then makes it easy for him to go through life;
[21] and in the end He causes him to die and brings him to the grave;
[22] and then, if it be His will, He shall raise him again to life,
[23] Nay, but [man] has never yet fulfilled what He has enjoined upon him!
[24] Let man, then, consider [the sources of] his food:
[25] [how it is] that We pour down water, pouring it down abundantly;
[26] and then We cleave the earth [with new growth], cleaving it asunder,
[27] and thereupon We cause grain to grow out of it,
[28] and vines and edible plants,
[29] and olive trees and date-palms,
[30] and gardens dense with foliage,
[31] and fruits and herbage,
[32] for you and for your animals to enjoy.
[33] AND SO, when the piercing call [of resurrection] is heard
[34] on a Day when everyone will [want to] flee from his brother,
[35] and from his mother and father,
[36] and from his spouse and his children:
[37] on that Day, to every one of them will his own state be of sufficient concern.
[38] Some faces will on that Day be bright with happiness,
[39] laughing, rejoicing at glad tidings.
[40] And some faces will on that Day with dust be covered,
[41] with darkness overspread:
[42] these, these will be the ones who denied the truth and were immersed in iniquity!