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- He frowned and turned away
- when the blind man approached him,
- for how can you know that he might seek to purify himself,
- or take heed and derive benefit from [Our] warning?
- As for him who was indifferent,
- you eagerly attended to him—
- though you are not to be blamed if he would not purify himself—
- but as for one who comes to you, eagerly
- and in awe of God
- you pay him no heed.
- Indeed, this [Quran] is an admonition.
- Let him who will, pay heed to it.
- It is set down on honoured pages,
- exalted and purified,
- by the hands of scribes,
- exalted and purified.
- Woe to man! How ungrateful he is!
- Of what [stuff] has He created him?
- Out of a drop of sperm! He creates and proportions him,
- He makes his path easy for him.
- Then He causes him to die and be buried.
- Then when He pleases, He will bring him back to life.
- Yet man declines to do His bidding.
- Let man reflect on the food he eats.
- We let the rain pour down in torrents
- and then We cleaved the earth asunder.
- We make the grain grow out of it,
- and grape vines and vegetables,
- and olive trees and date palms
- and burgeoning enclosed gardens
- and fruits and fodder
- as provision for you and for your cattle to enjoy.
- But when the deafening blast is sounded,
- on that Day a man shall flee from his own brother,
- his mother, his father,
- his wife and his sons:
- on that Day every man among them will have enough concern of his own—
- on that Day some faces will be beaming,
- laughing, and rejoicing,
- but some faces will be covered with dust
- and overcast with gloom:
- those will be ones who denied the truth and were immersed in iniquity.
80:1-16
The Prophet Muhammad was once preaching to the chiefs of the Quraysh in Makkah, when a blind man, ‘Abdullah ibn Umm al-Maktum, arrived at the gathering and said, ‘O, Prophet of God ! Please teach me something of what God has taught you.’ The arrival of a blind person at this juncture displeased the Prophet. These verses were revealed on that occasion. In these verses the apparent addressee is the Prophet Muhammad, but actually it has been clarified with reference to this incident that, in the eyes of God, those prominent people who have turned away from religion have no value. Before God, the valued person is the one who is imbued with the God-fearing spirit, though apparently he may be a ‘blind’ person.
80:17-32
The driving force behind the true godliness required of a man is, in reality, his sense of gratitude. If he gives serious consideration to his creation and the various natural systems in operation around him, a sense of gratitude towards his Lord will eventually develop in him. The state of being resulting from these feelings of gratitude and obligation is known as godliness, or adoration of God in the real sense.
80:33-42
Rejection of truth and being arrogant about it are the worst crimes. Arrogant people will have absolutely no personal worth in the Hereafter, while those who accept the Truth and bow down before it are the ones who will carry weight in the Hereafter. The honour and successes of the Hereafter will be theirs.
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