80. Abasa

80:1

عَبَسَ وَتَوَلَّىٰٓ ﴿١﴾

ʿabasa watawallā

He frowned and turned away

80:2

أَن جَآءَهُ ٱلْأَعْمَىٰ ﴿٢﴾

An jāʾahu al-aʿmā

Because the blind man came unto him.

80:3

وَمَا يُدْرِيكَ لَعَلَّهُۥ يَزَّكَّىٰٓ ﴿٣﴾

Wamā yudrīka laʿallahu yazzakkā

What could inform thee but that he might grow (in grace)

80:4

أَوْ يَذَّكَّرُ فَتَنفَعَهُ ٱلذِّكْرَىٰٓ ﴿٤﴾

Aw yadhdhakkaru fatanfaʿahu adh-dhikrā

Or take heed and so the reminder might avail him?

80:5

أَمَّا مَنِ ٱسْتَغْنَىٰ ﴿٥﴾

Ammā mani istaghnā

As for him who thinketh himself independent,

80:6

فَأَنتَ لَهُۥ تَصَدَّىٰ ﴿٦﴾

Faʾanta lahu taṣaddā

Unto him thou payest regard.

80:7

وَمَا عَلَيْكَ أَلَّا يَزَّكَّىٰ ﴿٧﴾

Wamā ʿalayka allā yazzakkā

Yet it is not thy concern if he grow not (in grace).

80:8

وَأَمَّا مَن جَآءَكَ يَسْعَىٰ ﴿٨﴾

Waʾammā man jāʾaka yasʿā

But as for him who cometh unto thee with earnest purpose

80:9

وَهُوَ يَخْشَىٰ ﴿٩﴾

Wahuwa yakhshā

And hath fear,

80:10

فَأَنتَ عَنْهُ تَلَهَّىٰ ﴿١٠﴾

Faʾanta ʿanhu talahhā

From him thou art distracted.

80:11

كَلَّآ إِنَّهَا تَذْكِرَةٌ ﴿١١﴾

Kallā innahā tadhkirah

Nay, but verily it is an Admonishment,

80:12

فَمَن شَآءَ ذَكَرَهُۥ ﴿١٢﴾

Faman shāʾa dhakarah

So let whosoever will pay heed to it,

80:13

فِى صُحُفٍ مُّكَرَّمَةٍ ﴿١٣﴾

Fī ṣuḥufin mukarramah

On honoured leaves

80:14

مَّرْفُوعَةٍ مُّطَهَّرَةٍۭ ﴿١٤﴾

Marfūʿatin muṭahharah

Exalted, purified,

80:15

بِأَيْدِى سَفَرَةٍ ﴿١٥﴾

Biʾaydī safarah

(Set down) by scribes

80:16

كِرَامٍۭ بَرَرَةٍ ﴿١٦﴾

Kirāmin bararah

Noble and righteous.

80:17

قُتِلَ ٱلْإِنسَـٰنُ مَآ أَكْفَرَهُۥ ﴿١٧﴾

Qutila al-insānu mā akfarah

Man is (self-)destroyed: how ungrateful!

80:18

مِنْ أَىِّ شَىْءٍ خَلَقَهُۥ ﴿١٨﴾

Min ayyi shayʾin khalaqah

From what thing doth He create him?

80:19

مِن نُّطْفَةٍ خَلَقَهُۥ فَقَدَّرَهُۥ ﴿١٩﴾

Min nuṭfatin khalaqahu faqaddarah

From a drop of seed. He createth him and proportioneth him,

80:20

ثُمَّ ٱلسَّبِيلَ يَسَّرَهُۥ ﴿٢٠﴾

Thumma as-sabīla yassarah

Then maketh the way easy for him,

80:21

ثُمَّ أَمَاتَهُۥ فَأَقْبَرَهُۥ ﴿٢١﴾

Thumma amātahu faʾaqbarah

Then causeth him to die, and burieth him;

80:22

ثُمَّ إِذَا شَآءَ أَنشَرَهُۥ ﴿٢٢﴾

Thumma idhā shāʾa ansharah

Then, when He will, He bringeth him again to life.

80:23

كَلَّا لَمَّا يَقْضِ مَآ أَمَرَهُۥ ﴿٢٣﴾

Kallā lammā yaqḍi mā amarah

Nay, but (man) hath not done what He commanded him.

80:24

فَلْيَنظُرِ ٱلْإِنسَـٰنُ إِلَىٰ طَعَامِهِۦٓ ﴿٢٤﴾

Falyanẓuri al-insānu ilā ṭaʿāmih

Let man consider his food:

80:25

أَنَّا صَبَبْنَا ٱلْمَآءَ صَبًّا ﴿٢٥﴾

Annā ṣababnā al-māʾa ṣabbā

How We pour water in showers

80:26

ثُمَّ شَقَقْنَا ٱلْأَرْضَ شَقًّا ﴿٢٦﴾

Thumma shaqaqnā al-arḍa shaqqā

Then split the earth in clefts

80:27

فَأَنۢبَتْنَا فِيهَا حَبًّا ﴿٢٧﴾

Faʾanbatnā fīhā ḥabbā

And cause the grain to grow therein

80:28

وَعِنَبًا وَقَضْبًا ﴿٢٨﴾

Waʿinaban waqaḍbā

And grapes and green fodder

80:29

وَزَيْتُونًا وَنَخْلًا ﴿٢٩﴾

Wazaytūnan wanakhlā

And olive-trees and palm-trees

80:30

وَحَدَآئِقَ غُلْبًا ﴿٣٠﴾

Waḥadāʾiqa ghulbā

And garden-closes of thick foliage

80:31

وَفَـٰكِهَةً وَأَبًّا ﴿٣١﴾

Wafākihatan waʾabbā

And fruits and grasses:

80:32

مَّتَـٰعًا لَّكُمْ وَلِأَنْعَـٰمِكُمْ ﴿٣٢﴾

Matāʿan lakum waliʾanʿāmikum

Provision for you and your cattle.

80:33

فَإِذَا جَآءَتِ ٱلصَّآخَّةُ ﴿٣٣﴾

Faʾidhā jāʾati aṣ-ṣākhkhah

But when the Shout cometh

80:34

يَوْمَ يَفِرُّ ٱلْمَرْءُ مِنْ أَخِيهِ ﴿٣٤﴾

Yawma yafirru al-marʾu min akhīh

On the day when a man fleeth from his brother

80:35

وَأُمِّهِۦ وَأَبِيهِ ﴿٣٥﴾

Waʾummihi waʾabīh

And his mother and his father

80:36

وَصَـٰحِبَتِهِۦ وَبَنِيهِ ﴿٣٦﴾

Waṣāḥibatihi wabanīh

And his wife and his children,

80:37

لِكُلِّ ٱمْرِئٍ مِّنْهُمْ يَوْمَئِذٍ شَأْنٌ يُغْنِيهِ ﴿٣٧﴾

Likulli imriʾin minhum yawmaʾidhin shaʾnun yughnīh

Every man that day will have concern enough to make him heedless (of others).

80:38

وُجُوهٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ مُّسْفِرَةٌ ﴿٣٨﴾

Wujūhun yawmaʾidhin musfirah

On that day faces will be bright as dawn,

80:39

ضَاحِكَةٌ مُّسْتَبْشِرَةٌ ﴿٣٩﴾

Ḍāḥikatun mustabshirah

Laughing, rejoicing at good news;

80:40

وَوُجُوهٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ عَلَيْهَا غَبَرَةٌ ﴿٤٠﴾

Wawujūhun yawmaʾidhin ʿalayhā ghabarah

And other faces, on that day, with dust upon them,

80:41

تَرْهَقُهَا قَتَرَةٌ ﴿٤١﴾

Tarhaquhā qatarah

Veiled in darkness,

80:42

أُو۟لَـٰٓئِكَ هُمُ ٱلْكَفَرَةُ ٱلْفَجَرَةُ ﴿٤٢﴾

Ulāʾika humu al-kafaratu al-fajarah

Those are the disbelievers, the wicked.