The Hidden Secret (Al-Muddath-thir)
Allah - beginning with the name of - the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
O you (Prophet Muhamad), the cloaked, 1 Arise and warn! 2 Thy Lord magnify, 3 And your garments purify! 4 and defilement flee! 5 And show not favour, seeking wordly gain! 6 but unto thy Sustainer turn in patience. 7 When the Trumpet shall be sounded, 8 It will be a day of distress, 9 Far from easy for those without Faith. 10 Leave Me (to deal) with him whom I created lonely, 11 and whom I have granted abundant wealth 12 and sons standing before him, 13 whose life I have made run smoothly 14 and yet, he greedily desires that I give yet more! 15 Never! For he is an enemy to Our signs! 16 On him I shall impose a fearful doom. 17 Indeed he thought, and inwardly decided. 18 May he be accursed, how he planned! 19 Again accursed be he, how evilly did he decide! 20 Then he looked, 21 And frowned and puckered his brow, 22 then he retreated and grew proud 23 and says, "All this is mere spellbinding eloquence handed down [from olden times]! 24 This is naught but the word of a mortal. 25 I shall surely roast him in Sakar; 26 and what will teach thee what is Sakar? 27 It neither leaves, nor spares. 28 It shrivelleth the man. 29 and it has nineteen angelic keepers. 30 We have not appointed the guards of hell, except angels; and did not keep this number except to test the disbelievers – in order that the People given the Book(s) may be convinced, and to increase the faith of the believers – and so that the People given the Book(s) and the Muslims may not have any doubt – and so that those in whose hearts is a disease and the disbelievers, may say, “What does Allah mean by this amazing example?” This is how Allah sends astray whomever He wills, and guides whomever He wills; and no one knows the armies of Allah except Him; and this is not but an advice to man. 31