The Hidden Secret (Al-Muddath-thir)
In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate
O you who are clothed! 1 Arise and warn, 2 proclaim the greatness of your Lord, 3 And thy garments keep free from stain! 4 And banish all trepidation. 5 And do not favour others in order to receive more. 6 But for your Lord be patient. 7 For when the trumpet is sounded, 8 that very Day shall be a day of anguish, 9 for the unbelievers not easy. 10 Leave him to Me whom I created alone, 11 whom I have endowed with abundant riches, 12 And children to be by his side! 13 whose life I have made run smoothly 14 Then he desires that I should add more. 15 Never. He is refractory of Our signs. 16 I shall inflict on him hardship, 17 For lo! he did consider; then he planned - 18 So accursed be he, how evilly did he decide! 19 yea, he destroys himself, the way he meditates! 20 Then looked he, 21 Then frowned and grimaced. 22 then he retreated and waxed proud, 23 Then he said: This is naught but enchantment, narrated (from others); 24 These are only words from a mere mortal". 25 I will cast him into the fire of Hell. 26 Would that you really knew what hell is! 27 It leaveth naught; it spareth naught 28 and it burns the flesh. 29 Above it are nineteen. 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