The Hidden Secret (Al-Muddath-thir)
In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
O THOU [in thy solitude] enfolded! 1 arise and give warning! 2 And your Lord glorify 3 thy robes purify 4 And uncleanness do shun, 5 Nor expect, in giving, any increase (for thyself)! 6 be patient unto your Lord. 7 Then when the horn shall be blown, 8 it will be a hard day 9 For the infidels, not easy. 10 Let Me alone with him whom I created lonely. 11 And gave him vast wealth. 12 and sons standing before him, 13 and whom I have provided with every resource, 14 Yet he desires that I should give more. 15 By no means! He has been stubbornly hostile to Our revelation: 16 I shall inflict on him hardship, 17 For he thought and he plotted;- 18 death seize him, how he determined! 19 Then may he be destroyed [for] how he deliberated. 20 Then he considered [again]; 21 then frowned and scowled; 22 then turned back, and swelling-up with pride, 23 He said, 'This is naught but a trumped-up sorcery; 24 Nothing more than the speech of a man!" 25 Him shall I soon roast in Hell. 26 What could make you conceive what hell-fire is? 27 It neither spares, nor releases, 28 making [all truth] visible to mortal man. 29 Over it are nineteen. 30 And We have set none but angels as Guardians of the Fire; and We have fixed their number only as a trial for Unbelievers,- in order that the People of the Book may arrive at certainty, and the Believers may increase in Faith,- and that no doubts may be left for the People of the Book and the Believers, and that those in whose hearts is a disease and the Unbelievers may say, "What symbol doth Allah intend by this?" Thus doth Allah leave to stray whom He pleaseth, and guide whom He pleaseth: and none can know the forces of thy Lord, except He and this is no other than a warning to mankind. 31