Surah 'Abasa (He Frowned, عبس ) is the 80th surah of the Noble Quran — a Meccan surah of 42 verses. Read it below in Arabic with the English translation of Marmaduke Pickthall, and listen verse by verse to famous Egyptian reciters.
بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ
80:1
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عَبَسَ وَتَوَلَّىٰٓ ١
He frowned and turned away
80:2
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أَن جَآءَهُ ٱلْأَعْمَىٰ ٢
Because the blind man came unto him.
80:3
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وَمَا يُدْرِيكَ لَعَلَّهُۥ يَزَّكَّىٰٓ ٣
What could inform thee but that he might grow (in grace)
80:4
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أَوْ يَذَّكَّرُ فَتَنفَعَهُ ٱلذِّكْرَىٰٓ ٤
Or take heed and so the reminder might avail him?
80:5
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أَمَّا مَنِ ٱسْتَغْنَىٰ ٥
As for him who thinketh himself independent,
80:6
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فَأَنتَ لَهُۥ تَصَدَّىٰ ٦
Unto him thou payest regard.
80:7
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وَمَا عَلَيْكَ أَلَّا يَزَّكَّىٰ ٧
Yet it is not thy concern if he grow not (in grace).
80:8
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وَأَمَّا مَن جَآءَكَ يَسْعَىٰ ٨
But as for him who cometh unto thee with earnest purpose
80:9
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وَهُوَ يَخْشَىٰ ٩
And hath fear,
80:10
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فَأَنتَ عَنْهُ تَلَهَّىٰ ١٠
From him thou art distracted.
80:11
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كَلَّآ إِنَّهَا تَذْكِرَةٌۭ ١١
Nay, but verily it is an Admonishment,
80:12
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فَمَن شَآءَ ذَكَرَهُۥ ١٢
So let whosoever will pay heed to it,
80:13
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فِى صُحُفٍۢ مُّكَرَّمَةٍۢ ١٣
On honoured leaves
80:14
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مَّرْفُوعَةٍۢ مُّطَهَّرَةٍۭ ١٤
Exalted, purified,
80:15
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بِأَيْدِى سَفَرَةٍۢ ١٥
(Set down) by scribes
80:16
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كِرَامٍۭ بَرَرَةٍۢ ١٦
Noble and righteous.
80:17
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قُتِلَ ٱلْإِنسَٰنُ مَآ أَكْفَرَهُۥ ١٧
Man is (self-)destroyed: how ungrateful!
80:18
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مِنْ أَىِّ شَىْءٍ خَلَقَهُۥ ١٨
From what thing doth He create him?
80:19
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مِن نُّطْفَةٍ خَلَقَهُۥ فَقَدَّرَهُۥ ١٩
From a drop of seed. He createth him and proportioneth him,
80:20
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ثُمَّ ٱلسَّبِيلَ يَسَّرَهُۥ ٢٠
Then maketh the way easy for him,
80:21
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ثُمَّ أَمَاتَهُۥ فَأَقْبَرَهُۥ ٢١
Then causeth him to die, and burieth him;
80:22
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ثُمَّ إِذَا شَآءَ أَنشَرَهُۥ ٢٢
Then, when He will, He bringeth him again to life.
80:23
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كَلَّا لَمَّا يَقْضِ مَآ أَمَرَهُۥ ٢٣
Nay, but (man) hath not done what He commanded him.
80:24
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فَلْيَنظُرِ ٱلْإِنسَٰنُ إِلَىٰ طَعَامِهِۦٓ ٢٤
Let man consider his food:
80:25
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أَنَّا صَبَبْنَا ٱلْمَآءَ صَبًّۭا ٢٥
How We pour water in showers
80:26
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ثُمَّ شَقَقْنَا ٱلْأَرْضَ شَقًّۭا ٢٦
Then split the earth in clefts
80:27
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فَأَنۢبَتْنَا فِيهَا حَبًّۭا ٢٧
And cause the grain to grow therein
80:28
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وَعِنَبًۭا وَقَضْبًۭا ٢٨
And grapes and green fodder
80:29
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وَزَيْتُونًۭا وَنَخْلًۭا ٢٩
And olive-trees and palm-trees
80:30
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وَحَدَآئِقَ غُلْبًۭا ٣٠
And garden-closes of thick foliage
80:31
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وَفَٰكِهَةًۭ وَأَبًّۭا ٣١
And fruits and grasses:
80:32
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مَّتَٰعًۭا لَّكُمْ وَلِأَنْعَٰمِكُمْ ٣٢
Provision for you and your cattle.
80:33
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فَإِذَا جَآءَتِ ٱلصَّآخَّةُ ٣٣
But when the Shout cometh
80:34
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يَوْمَ يَفِرُّ ٱلْمَرْءُ مِنْ أَخِيهِ ٣٤
On the day when a man fleeth from his brother
80:35
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وَأُمِّهِۦ وَأَبِيهِ ٣٥
And his mother and his father
80:36
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وَصَٰحِبَتِهِۦ وَبَنِيهِ ٣٦
And his wife and his children,
80:37
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لِكُلِّ ٱمْرِئٍۢ مِّنْهُمْ يَوْمَئِذٍۢ شَأْنٌۭ يُغْنِيهِ ٣٧
Every man that day will have concern enough to make him heedless (of others).
80:38
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وُجُوهٌۭ يَوْمَئِذٍۢ مُّسْفِرَةٌۭ ٣٨
On that day faces will be bright as dawn,
80:39
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ضَاحِكَةٌۭ مُّسْتَبْشِرَةٌۭ ٣٩
Laughing, rejoicing at good news;
80:40
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وَوُجُوهٌۭ يَوْمَئِذٍ عَلَيْهَا غَبَرَةٌۭ ٤٠
And other faces, on that day, with dust upon them,
80:41
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تَرْهَقُهَا قَتَرَةٌ ٤١
Veiled in darkness,
80:42
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أُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ هُمُ ٱلْكَفَرَةُ ٱلْفَجَرَةُ ٤٢
Those are the disbelievers, the wicked.
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Arabic text: Tanzil Project (tanzil.net) · English translation: M. M. Pickthall · Recitations: mp3quran.net