The Hidden Secret (Al-Muddath-thir)
In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate
O you (Prophet Muhamad), the cloaked, 1 Arise and deliver thy warning! 2 And proclaim the Purity of your Lord. 3 and purify your robes, 4 And pollution shun. 5 Give not, thinking to gain greater 6 But for your Lord be patient. 7 And [warn all men that] when the trumpet-call [of resurrection] is sounded, 8 Truly, that Day will be a Hard Day. 9 not an easy day for the unbelievers. 10 Leave Me with the one I created alone 11 whom I have endowed with abundant riches, 12 and children as [love's] witnesses, 13 And spread [everything] before him, easing [his life]. 14 Yet he desireth that I should give more. 15 Never. He is refractory of Our signs. 16 I shall inflict on him hardship, 17 For he thought and he plotted;- 18 and thus he destroys himself, the way he meditates: 19 Let him be destroyed. How he calculated! 20 Then he considered [again]; 21 Then frowned he and showed displeasure. 22 then turned back, and swelling-up with pride, 23 Then he said: "This is nothing but magic from that of old; 24 'this is nothing but mortal speech.' 25 Anon shall I roast him into the Scorching Fire. 26 - Ah, what will convey unto thee what that burning is! - 27 It leaves nothing, nor does it spare; 28 It scorches people's skin 29 there are nineteen [angels] in charge of it -- 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