بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ عَبَسَ وَتَوَلَّىٰ

He frowned and turned away

أَنْ جَاءَهُ الْأَعْمَىٰ

Because the blind man came unto him.

وَمَا يُدْرِيكَ لَعَلَّهُ يَزَّكَّىٰ

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

أَوْ يَذَّكَّرُ فَتَنْفَعَهُ الذِّكْرَىٰ

Or take heed and so the reminder might avail him?

أَمَّا مَنِ اسْتَغْنَىٰ

As for him who thinketh himself independent,

فَأَنْتَ لَهُ تَصَدَّىٰ

Unto him thou payest regard.

وَمَا عَلَيْكَ أَلَّا يَزَّكَّىٰ

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

وَأَمَّا مَنْ جَاءَكَ يَسْعَىٰ

But as for him who cometh unto thee with earnest purpose

وَهُوَ يَخْشَىٰ

And hath fear,

فَأَنْتَ عَنْهُ تَلَهَّىٰ

From him thou art distracted.

كَلَّا إِنَّهَا تَذْكِرَةٌ

Nay, but verily it is an Admonishment,

فَمَنْ شَاءَ ذَكَرَهُ

So let whosoever will pay heed to it,

فِي صُحُفٍ مُكَرَّمَةٍ

On honoured leaves

مَرْفُوعَةٍ مُطَهَّرَةٍ

Exalted, purified,

بِأَيْدِي سَفَرَةٍ

(Set down) by scribes

كِرَامٍ بَرَرَةٍ

Noble and righteous.

قُتِلَ الْإِنْسَانُ مَا أَكْفَرَهُ

Man is (self-)destroyed: how ungrateful!

مِنْ أَيِّ شَيْءٍ خَلَقَهُ

From what thing doth He create him?

مِنْ نُطْفَةٍ خَلَقَهُ فَقَدَّرَهُ

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

ثُمَّ السَّبِيلَ يَسَّرَهُ

Then maketh the way easy for him,

ثُمَّ أَمَاتَهُ فَأَقْبَرَهُ

Then causeth him to die, and burieth him;

ثُمَّ إِذَا شَاءَ أَنْشَرَهُ

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

كَلَّا لَمَّا يَقْضِ مَا أَمَرَهُ

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

فَلْيَنْظُرِ الْإِنْسَانُ إِلَىٰ طَعَامِهِ

Let man consider his food:

أَنَّا صَبَبْنَا الْمَاءَ صَبًّا

How We pour water in showers

ثُمَّ شَقَقْنَا الْأَرْضَ شَقًّا

Then split the earth in clefts

فَأَنْبَتْنَا فِيهَا حَبًّا

And cause the grain to grow therein

وَعِنَبًا وَقَضْبًا

And grapes and green fodder

وَزَيْتُونًا وَنَخْلًا

And olive-trees and palm-trees

وَحَدَائِقَ غُلْبًا

And garden-closes of thick foliage

وَفَاكِهَةً وَأَبًّا

And fruits and grasses:

مَتَاعًا لَكُمْ وَلِأَنْعَامِكُمْ

Provision for you and your cattle.

فَإِذَا جَاءَتِ الصَّاخَّةُ

But when the Shout cometh

يَوْمَ يَفِرُّ الْمَرْءُ مِنْ أَخِيهِ

On the day when a man fleeth from his brother

وَأُمِّهِ وَأَبِيهِ

And his mother and his father

وَصَاحِبَتِهِ وَبَنِيهِ

And his wife and his children,

لِكُلِّ امْرِئٍ مِنْهُمْ يَوْمَئِذٍ شَأْنٌ يُغْنِيهِ

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

وُجُوهٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ مُسْفِرَةٌ

On that day faces will be bright as dawn,

ضَاحِكَةٌ مُسْتَبْشِرَةٌ

Laughing, rejoicing at good news;

وَوُجُوهٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ عَلَيْهَا غَبَرَةٌ

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

تَرْهَقُهَا قَتَرَةٌ

Veiled in darkness,

أُولَٰئِكَ هُمُ الْكَفَرَةُ الْفَجَرَةُ

Those are the disbelievers, the wicked.