- He frowned and turned away
- Because the blind man came unto him.
- What could inform thee but that he might grow (in grace)
- Or take heed and so the reminder might avail him ?
- As for him who thinketh himself independent,
- Unto him thou payest regard.
- Yet it is not thy concern if he grow not (in grace).
- But as for him who cometh unto thee with earnest purpose
- And hath fear,
- From him thou art distracted.
- Nay, but verily it is an Admonishment,
- So let whosoever will pay heed to it,
- On honoured leaves
- Exalted, purified,
- (Set down) by scribes
- Noble and righteous.
- Man is (self-)destroyed: how ungrateful!
- From what thing doth He create him ?
- From a drop of seed. He createth him and proportioneth him,
- Then maketh the way easy for him,
- Then causeth him to die, and burieth him;
- Then, when He will, He bringeth him again to life.
- Nay, but (man) hath not done what He commanded him.
- Let man consider his food:
- How We pour water in showers
- Then split the earth in clefts
- And cause the grain to grow therein
- And grapes and green fodder
- And olive-trees and palm-trees
- And garden-closes of thick foliage
- And fruits and grasses:
- Provision for you and your cattle.
- But when the Shout cometh
- On the day when a man fleeth from his brother
- And his mother and his father
- And his wife and his children,
- Every man that day will have concern enough to make him
heedless (of others).
- On that day faces will be bright as dawn,
- Laughing, rejoicing at good news;
- And other faces, on that day, with dust upon them,
- Veiled in darkness,
- Those are the disbelievers, the wicked.