ABASA

"he frowned", the title of surah 80 in the Qur'an.

> "It is said that a blind man, named `Abdu 'llah ibn Umm Maktum, once interrupted Muhammad in conversation with certain chiefs of Quraish. The Prophet, however, took no notice of him, but frowned and turned away; and in the first verse of the Surah, he is represented as reproved by God for having done so." (Hughes's Dictionary, p. 1)

See also BLIND and the entry on IBN UMM MAKTUM.

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