The Hidden Secret (Al-Muddath-thir)
In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate
O THOU [in thy solitude] enfolded! 1 Rise up and warn! 2 And proclaim the Purity of your Lord. 3 and purify your robes, 4 And banish all trepidation. 5 And do not favour others in order to receive more. 6 For the sake of thy Lord, be patient! 7 For when the trumpet shall sound, 8 it will be a hard day 9 For the infidels, not easy. 10 Leave Me with him whom I created alone, 11 and appointed for him ample wealth 12 and children living in his presence, 13 And made several preparations for him. 14 Then he desires that I should add more. 15 No! Indeed, he has been toward Our verses obstinate. 16 and I shall constrain him to a hard ascent. 17 He reflected, and then determined 18 And woe to him! How he plotted!- 19 May be then be accursed, how he plotted! 20 He then dared to lift his gaze. 21 And frowned and puckered his brow, 22 then he retreated, and waxed proud. 23 and said: “This (Qur'an) is merely a sorcery of yore; 24 'this is nothing but mortal speech.' 25 I will cast him into the fire of Hell. 26 And what will explain to thee what Hell-Fire is? 27 It neither leaves, nor spares. 28 It shrivelleth the man. 29 Above it are nineteen guards. 30 We have appointed none but angels as the keepers of the Fire, and We have not made their number but as a trial for the unbelievers so that those who have been endowed with the Book will be convinced and the believers' faith will increase, and neither those who have been endowed with the Book nor the believers will fall into any doubt. As for those in whose hearts there is a sickness as well as the unbelievers, they will say: “What did Allah aim at by this strange parable?” Thus does Allah let whomsoever He pleases to go astray, and directs whomsoever He pleases to the Right Way. And none knows the hosts of your Lord but He. (And Hell has only been mentioned here) that people may take heed. 31