The Hidden Secret (Al-Muddath-thir)
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
O YOU ENFOLDED in your mantle (of reform), 1 Arise and warn, 2 And thy Lord do thou magnify! 3 And thine inner self purify! 4 Pollution shun! 5 And do not confer favor to acquire more 6 Exercise patience to please your Lord. 7 For when the trumpet blows 8 that very Day shall be a day of anguish, 9 for the unbelievers not easy. 10 Leave Me (to deal) with him whom I created lonely, 11 and to whom I have granted resources in abundance, 12 and sons ever present with him, 13 and for whom I have smoothed the way (to power and riches), 14 then he is eager that I should do more. 15 By no means; he is stubbornly opposed to Our Signs. 16 I shall soon constrain him to a hard ascent. 17 Surely he reflected and guessed, 18 death seized him, how was his determining! 19 Again, may he be cursed how he plotted; 20 Then looked he, 21 and then he frowns and glares, 22 Then he turned back and was proud; 23 Then he said: This is naught but enchantment, narrated (from others); 24 Naught is this but the word of Man. 25 I shall make him suffer the torment of hell. 26 Would that you really knew what hell is! 27 It neither spares, nor releases, 28 and it burns the flesh. 29 Over it are appointed nineteen. 30 And We have not made the wardens of the fire others than angels, and We have not made their number but as a trial for those who disbelieve, that those who have been given the book may be certain and those who believe may increase in faith, and those who have been given the book and the believers may not doubt, and that those in whose hearts is a disease and the unbelievers may say: What does Allah mean by this parable? Thus does Allah make err whom He pleases, and He guides whom He pleases, and none knows the hosts of your Lord but He Himself; and this is naught but a reminder to the mortals. 31