The Hidden Secret (Al-Muddath-thir)
In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate
O you enveloped in your cloak! 1 Arise, and warn. 2 Proclaim the glory of your Lord; 3 And thine raiment purify. 4 shun uncleanness; 5 And do not favour others in order to receive more. 6 And for the sake of your Lord, patiently endure. 7 When the Trumpet shall be sounded, 8 That, at that time, shall be a difficult day, 9 not an easy day for the unbelievers. 10 LEAVE Me alone [to deal] with him whom I have created alone, 11 whom I have endowed with abundant riches, 12 and sons standing before him, 13 and for whom I have smoothed the way (to power and riches), 14 Yet he wants that I should give him more. 15 Nay! He is forward unto Our signs; 16 Soon will I visit him with a mount of calamities! 17 For lo! he did consider; then he planned - 18 Perish he! How maliciously he devised! 19 Again accursed be he, how evilly did he decide! 20 Then looked he, 21 then frowned and scowled; 22 then he retreated and waxed proud, 23 Then said he: "This is nothing but magic, derived from of old; 24 "This is nothing but the word of a human being!" 25 I shall make him suffer the torment of hell. 26 And what could make thee conceive what hell-fire is? 27 It neither spares, nor releases, 28 and it burns the flesh. 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