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Surah 80

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He frowned

42 VersesMeccan RevelationMishary Rashid Alafasy
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Ayah 1

بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ عَبَسَ وَتَوَلَّىٰٓ

English Translation

HE FROWNED and turned away

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Ayah 2

أَن جَآءَهُ ٱلْأَعْمَىٰ

English Translation

because the blind man approached him!

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Ayah 3

وَمَا يُدْرِيكَ لَعَلَّهُۥ يَزَّكَّىٰٓ

English Translation

Yet for all thou didst know, [O Muhammad,] he might perhaps have grown in purity,

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Ayah 4

أَوْ يَذَّكَّرُ فَتَنفَعَهُ ٱلذِّكْرَىٰٓ

English Translation

or have been reminded [of the truth], and helped by this reminder.

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Ayah 5

أَمَّا مَنِ ٱسْتَغْنَىٰ

English Translation

Now as for him who believes himself to be self-sufficient

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Ayah 6

فَأَنتَ لَهُۥ تَصَدَّىٰ

English Translation

to him didst thou give thy whole attention,

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Ayah 7

وَمَا عَلَيْكَ أَلَّا يَزَّكَّىٰ

English Translation

although thou art not accountable for his failure to attain to purity;

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Ayah 8

وَأَمَّا مَن جَآءَكَ يَسْعَىٰ

English Translation

but as for him who came unto thee full of eagerness

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Ayah 9

وَهُوَ يَخْشَىٰ

English Translation

and in awe [of God]

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Ayah 10

فَأَنتَ عَنْهُ تَلَهَّىٰ

English Translation

him didst thou disregard!

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Ayah 11

كَلَّآ إِنَّهَا تَذْكِرَةٌۭ

English Translation

NAY, VERILY, these [messages] are but a reminder:

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Ayah 12

فَمَن شَآءَ ذَكَرَهُۥ

English Translation

and so, whoever is willing may remember Him

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Ayah 13

فِى صُحُفٍۢ مُّكَرَّمَةٍۢ

English Translation

in [the light of His] revelations blest with dignity,

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Ayah 14

مَّرْفُوعَةٍۢ مُّطَهَّرَةٍۭ

English Translation

lofty and pure,

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Ayah 15

بِأَيْدِى سَفَرَةٍۢ

English Translation

[borne] by the hands of messengers

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Ayah 16

كِرَامٍۭ بَرَرَةٍۢ

English Translation

noble and most virtuous.

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Ayah 17

قُتِلَ ٱلْإِنسَٰنُ مَآ أَكْفَرَهُۥ

English Translation

[But only too often] man destroys himself: how stubbornly does he deny the truth!

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Ayah 18

مِنْ أَىِّ شَىْءٍ خَلَقَهُۥ

English Translation

[Does man ever consider] out of what substance [God] creates him?

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Ayah 19

مِن نُّطْفَةٍ خَلَقَهُۥ فَقَدَّرَهُۥ

English Translation

Out of a drop of sperm He creates him, and thereupon determines his nature,

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Ayah 20

ثُمَّ ٱلسَّبِيلَ يَسَّرَهُۥ

English Translation

and then makes it easy for him to go through life;

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Ayah 21

ثُمَّ أَمَاتَهُۥ فَأَقْبَرَهُۥ

English Translation

and in the end He causes him to die and brings him to the grave;

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Ayah 22

ثُمَّ إِذَا شَآءَ أَنشَرَهُۥ

English Translation

and then, if it be His will, He shall raise him again to life,

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Ayah 23

كَلَّا لَمَّا يَقْضِ مَآ أَمَرَهُۥ

English Translation

Nay, but [man] has never yet fulfilled what He has enjoined upon him!

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Ayah 24

فَلْيَنظُرِ ٱلْإِنسَٰنُ إِلَىٰ طَعَامِهِۦٓ

English Translation

Let man, then, consider [the sources of] his food:

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Ayah 25

أَنَّا صَبَبْنَا ٱلْمَآءَ صَبًّۭا

English Translation

[how it is] that We pour down water, pouring it down abundantly;

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Ayah 26

ثُمَّ شَقَقْنَا ٱلْأَرْضَ شَقًّۭا

English Translation

and then We cleave the earth [with new growth], cleaving it asunder,

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Ayah 27

فَأَنۢبَتْنَا فِيهَا حَبًّۭا

English Translation

and thereupon We cause grain to grow out of it,

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Ayah 28

وَعِنَبًۭا وَقَضْبًۭا

English Translation

and vines and edible plants,

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Ayah 29

وَزَيْتُونًۭا وَنَخْلًۭا

English Translation

and olive trees and date-palms,

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Ayah 30

وَحَدَآئِقَ غُلْبًۭا

English Translation

and gardens dense with foliage,

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Ayah 31

وَفَٰكِهَةًۭ وَأَبًّۭا

English Translation

and fruits and herbage,

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Ayah 32

مَّتَٰعًۭا لَّكُمْ وَلِأَنْعَٰمِكُمْ

English Translation

for you and for your animals to enjoy.

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Ayah 33

فَإِذَا جَآءَتِ ٱلصَّآخَّةُ

English Translation

AND SO, when the piercing call [of resurrection] is heard

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Ayah 34

يَوْمَ يَفِرُّ ٱلْمَرْءُ مِنْ أَخِيهِ

English Translation

on a Day when everyone will [want to] flee from his brother,

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Ayah 35

وَأُمِّهِۦ وَأَبِيهِ

English Translation

and from his mother and father,

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Ayah 36

وَصَٰحِبَتِهِۦ وَبَنِيهِ

English Translation

and from his spouse and his children:

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Ayah 37

لِكُلِّ ٱمْرِئٍۢ مِّنْهُمْ يَوْمَئِذٍۢ شَأْنٌۭ يُغْنِيهِ

English Translation

on that Day, to every one of them will his own state be of sufficient concern.

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Ayah 38

وُجُوهٌۭ يَوْمَئِذٍۢ مُّسْفِرَةٌۭ

English Translation

Some faces will on that Day be bright with happiness,

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Ayah 39

ضَاحِكَةٌۭ مُّسْتَبْشِرَةٌۭ

English Translation

laughing, rejoicing at glad tidings.

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Ayah 40

وَوُجُوهٌۭ يَوْمَئِذٍ عَلَيْهَا غَبَرَةٌۭ

English Translation

And some faces will on that Day with dust be covered,

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Ayah 41

تَرْهَقُهَا قَتَرَةٌ

English Translation

with darkness overspread:

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Ayah 42

أُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ هُمُ ٱلْكَفَرَةُ ٱلْفَجَرَةُ

English Translation

these, these will be the ones who denied the truth and were immersed in iniquity!

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