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 And proclaim the Purity of your Lord. 3 And thine raiment purify. 4 And uncleanness do shun, 5 do not bestow a favour in the expectation of receiving more in return; 6 And for the sake of your Lord, patiently endure. 7 Then when the horn shall be blown, 8 That will be- that Day - a Day of Distress,- 9 It will not be easy for those who deny the truth. 10 Leave Me and him whom I created alone, 11 And gave him vast wealth. 12 and sons standing before him, 13 And made life smooth and comfortable for him! 14 Yet he desires that I should give more. 15 By no means! For to Our Signs he has been refractory! 16 On him I shall impose a fearful doom. 17 Verily he considered, and devised. 18 (Self-)destroyed is he, how he planned! 19 What an evil plan he has made! 20 Then he beheld, 21 Then he frowned and he scowled; 22 and he turned his back and behaved arrogantly 23 Then he said: naught is this but magic from of old; 24 Nothing more than the speech of a man!" 25 Soon I will cast him into hell. 26 And what have you understood, what hell is! 27 It does not allow to live, and neither leaves [to die,] 28 and it burns the flesh. 29 Over it are nineteen [powers]. 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