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 And your Lord do magnify, 3 And thine inner self purify! 4 And stay away from idols. 5 And do not confer favor to acquire more 6 But, for thy Lord's (Cause), be patient and constant! 7 For when the trumpet is sounded, 8 That, at that time, shall be a difficult day, 9 and for the disbelievers, in particular, it will not be at all easy. 10 Let Me alone with him whom I created lonely. 11 and to whom I have granted resources vast, 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 Never! For he is an enemy to Our signs! 16 I will make a distressing punishment overtake him. 17 Verily, he thought and plotted; 18 (Self-)destroyed is he, how he planned! 19 What an evil plan he has made! 20 Then looked he, 21 Then he frowned and scowled, 22 then he retreated and waxed proud, 23 and says, "All this is mere spellbinding eloquence handed down [from olden times]! 24 This is nothing but the word of mortal man!" 25 Soon I will cast him into hell. 26 And what knoweth thou that which the Scorching Fire? 27 It lets nothing remain and leaves nothing [unburned], 28 Darkening and changing the colour of man! 29 Over 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