مصحف الثريا

بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ عَبَسَ وَتَوَلَّىٰٓ ۝١

HE FROWNED and turned away

أَن جَآءَهُ ٱلْأَعْمَىٰ ۝٢

because the blind man approached him!

وَمَا يُدْرِيكَ لَعَلَّهُۥ يَزَّكَّىٰٓ ۝۳

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

أَوْ يَذَّكَّرُ فَتَنفَعَهُ ٱلذِّكْرَىٰٓ ۝٤

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

أَمَّا مَنِ ٱسْتَغْنَىٰ ۝٥

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

فَأَنتَ لَهُۥ تَصَدَّىٰ ۝٦

to him didst thou give thy whole attention,

وَمَا عَلَيْكَ أَلَّا يَزَّكَّىٰ ۝۷

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

وَأَمَّا مَن جَآءَكَ يَسْعَىٰ ۝۸

but as for him who came unto thee full of eagerness

وَهُوَ يَخْشَىٰ ۝۹

and in awe [of God]

فَأَنتَ عَنْهُ تَلَهَّىٰ ۝١۰

him didst thou disregard!

كَلَّآ إِنَّهَا تَذْكِرَةٌۭ ۝١١

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

فَمَن شَآءَ ذَكَرَهُۥ ۝١٢

and so, whoever is willing may remember Him

فِى صُحُفٍۢ مُّكَرَّمَةٍۢ ۝١۳

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

مَّرْفُوعَةٍۢ مُّطَهَّرَةٍۭ ۝١٤

lofty and pure,

بِأَيْدِى سَفَرَةٍۢ ۝١٥

[borne] by the hands of messengers

كِرَامٍۭ بَرَرَةٍۢ ۝١٦

noble and most virtuous.

قُتِلَ ٱلْإِنسَٰنُ مَآ أَكْفَرَهُۥ ۝١۷

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

مِنْ أَىِّ شَىْءٍ خَلَقَهُۥ ۝١۸

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

مِن نُّطْفَةٍ خَلَقَهُۥ فَقَدَّرَهُۥ ۝١۹

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

ثُمَّ ٱلسَّبِيلَ يَسَّرَهُۥ ۝٢۰

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

ثُمَّ أَمَاتَهُۥ فَأَقْبَرَهُۥ ۝٢١

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

ثُمَّ إِذَا شَآءَ أَنشَرَهُۥ ۝٢٢

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

كَلَّا لَمَّا يَقْضِ مَآ أَمَرَهُۥ ۝٢۳

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

فَلْيَنظُرِ ٱلْإِنسَٰنُ إِلَىٰ طَعَامِهِۦٓ ۝٢٤

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

أَنَّا صَبَبْنَا ٱلْمَآءَ صَبًّۭا ۝٢٥

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

ثُمَّ شَقَقْنَا ٱلْأَرْضَ شَقًّۭا ۝٢٦

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

فَأَنۢبَتْنَا فِيهَا حَبًّۭا ۝٢۷

and thereupon We cause grain to grow out of it,

وَعِنَبًۭا وَقَضْبًۭا ۝٢۸

and vines and edible plants,

وَزَيْتُونًۭا وَنَخْلًۭا ۝٢۹

and olive trees and date-palms,

وَحَدَآئِقَ غُلْبًۭا ۝۳۰

and gardens dense with foliage,

وَفَٰكِهَةًۭ وَأَبًّۭا ۝۳١

and fruits and herbage,

مَّتَٰعًۭا لَّكُمْ وَلِأَنْعَٰمِكُمْ ۝۳٢

for you and for your animals to enjoy.

فَإِذَا جَآءَتِ ٱلصَّآخَّةُ ۝۳۳

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

يَوْمَ يَفِرُّ ٱلْمَرْءُ مِنْ أَخِيهِ ۝۳٤

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

وَأُمِّهِۦ وَأَبِيهِ ۝۳٥

and from his mother and father,

وَصَٰحِبَتِهِۦ وَبَنِيهِ ۝۳٦

and from his spouse and his children:

لِكُلِّ ٱمْرِئٍۢ مِّنْهُمْ يَوْمَئِذٍۢ شَأْنٌۭ يُغْنِيهِ ۝۳۷

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

وُجُوهٌۭ يَوْمَئِذٍۢ مُّسْفِرَةٌۭ ۝۳۸

Some faces will on that Day be bright with happiness,

ضَاحِكَةٌۭ مُّسْتَبْشِرَةٌۭ ۝۳۹

laughing, rejoicing at glad tidings.

وَوُجُوهٌۭ يَوْمَئِذٍ عَلَيْهَا غَبَرَةٌۭ ۝٤۰

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

تَرْهَقُهَا قَتَرَةٌ ۝٤١

with darkness overspread:

أُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ هُمُ ٱلْكَفَرَةُ ٱلْفَجَرَةُ ۝٤٢

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