The Hidden Secret (Al-Muddath-thir)
In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
O you who covers himself [with a garment], 1 Rise up and warn! 2 Proclaim the glory of your Lord; 3 And thy garments keep free from stain! 4 shun uncleanness; 5 Nor expect, in giving, any increase (for thyself)! 6 and persevere for your Lord's sake. 7 Then when the horn shall be blown, 8 that will surely be a hard day, 9 Not of ease, for disbelievers. 10 Leave Me with the one I created alone 11 and appointed for him ample wealth 12 and sons standing before him, 13 And made life smooth and comfortable for him! 14 yet he is eager that I increase him. 15 By no means! For to Our Signs he has been refractory! 16 Anon I shall afflict him with a fearful woe. 17 Indeed, he thought and deliberated. 18 death seized him, how was his determining! 19 Again, ruin seize him, how did he hatch a scheme? 20 Then he looked round; 21 Then he frowned and he looked in a bad tempered way; 22 and he turned his back and behaved arrogantly 23 and said: “This (Qur'an) is merely a sorcery of yore; 24 This is nothing but the word of mortal man!" 25 I will cast him into hell. 26 Would that you really knew what hell is! 27 It leaveth naught; it spareth naught 28 Burning the skins! 29 there are nineteen [angels] in charge of it -- 30 And We have set none but angels as Guardians of the Fire; and We have fixed their number only as a trial for Unbelievers,- in order that the People of the Book may arrive at certainty, and the Believers may increase in Faith,- and that no doubts may be left for the People of the Book and the Believers, and that those in whose hearts is a disease and the Unbelievers may say, "What symbol doth Allah intend by this?" Thus doth Allah leave to stray whom He pleaseth, and guide whom He pleaseth: and none can know the forces of thy Lord, except He and this is no other than a warning to mankind. 31