The Hidden Secret (Al-Muddath-thir)
In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate
O you enveloped in your cloak! 1 arise and give warning! 2 Glorify your Lord, 3 And your garments purify! 4 stay away from sins 5 And show not favour, seeking wordly gain! 6 Exercise patience to please your Lord. 7 And [warn all men that] when the trumpet-call [of resurrection] is sounded, 8 that will surely be a hard day, 9 For the unbelievers, anything but easy. 10 Leave Me and him whom I created alone, 11 and designated for him ample wealth, 12 And sons always present by his side, 13 To whom I made (life) smooth and comfortable! 14 After all that he desires that I should give more; 15 By no means! Verily he hath been unto Our signs a foe. 16 I shall oblige him to (climb a slippery mountain in the Hell-fire called As-Sa'ud, or to) face a severe torment! 17 Surely he reflected and guessed, 18 death seized him, how was his determining! 19 What an evil plan he has made! 20 Then he looked, 21 Then he frowned and scowled; 22 then turned back, and swelling-up with pride, 23 and says, "All this is mere spellbinding eloquence handed down [from olden times]! 24 These are only words from a mere mortal". 25 I shall make him suffer the torment of hell. 26 What will let you know what the Scorching is like! 27 It spares not, neither leaves alone 28 It scorches the mortal. 29 Over it are nineteen keepers. 30 We have appointed only angels to be masters of the Fire, and their number We have appointed only as a trial for the unbelievers, that those who were given the Book may have certainty, and that those who believe may increase in belief, and that those who were given the Book and those who believe may not be in-doubt, and that those in whose hearts there is sickness, and the unbelievers, may say, 'What did God intend by this as a similitude?' So God leads astray whomsoever He will, and He guides whomsoever He will; and none knows the hosts of thy Lord but He. And it is naught but a Reminder to mortals. 31