The Hidden Secret (Al-Muddath-thir)
In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful
O thou wrapped up (in the mantle)! 1 Arise, and warn, 2 Proclaim the glory of your Lord; 3 purify your garments; 4 stay away from sins 5 Give not, thinking to gain greater 6 but unto thy Sustainer turn in patience. 7 When the Trumpet shall be sounded, 8 That shall be - that Day - a day hard. 9 For the unbelievers, anything but easy. 10 Leave him to Me, the one whom I created single. 11 And gave him vast wealth. 12 And sons present by his side. 13 And made (life) smooth for him. 14 And who yet coveteth that shall increase. 15 By no means! surely he offers opposition to Our communications. 16 I shall soon constrain him to a hard ascent. 17 For he had thought and calculated. 18 May he be condemned! 19 Again, ruin seize him, how did he hatch a scheme? 20 Then he considered [again]; 21 then frowned and scowled; 22 Then turned he back, and grew stiff-necked. 23 and said: “This (Qur'an) is merely a sorcery of yore; 24 This is naught else than speech of mortal man. 25 I will drive him into Saqar. 26 What will let you know what the Scorching is like! 27 It spares not, neither leaves alone 28 Blackening the skins. 29 Above it are nineteen guards. 30 And We have set none but angels as guardians of the Fire, and We have fixed their number (19) only as a trial for the disbelievers, in order that the people of the Scripture (Jews and Christians) may arrive at a certainty [that this Quran is the truth as it agrees with their Books i.e. their number (19) is written in the Taurat (Torah) and the Injeel (Gospel)] and the believers may increase in Faith (as this Quran is the truth) and that no doubts may be left for the people of the Scripture and the believers, and that those in whose hearts is a disease (of hypocrisy) and the disbelievers may say: "What Allah intends by this (curious) example?" Thus Allah leads astray whom He wills and guides whom He wills. And none can know the hosts of your Lord but He. And this (Hell) is nothing else than a (warning) reminder to mankind. 31