The Hidden Secret (Al-Muddath-thir)
In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate
O thou enveloped in thy cloak, 1 arise and warn, 2 proclaim the greatness of your Lord, 3 Thy raiment purify, 4 Pollution shun! 5 And do not favour others in order to receive more. 6 but unto thy Sustainer turn in patience. 7 For when the Trump is sounded 8 It will be a day of distress, 9 Not easy upon the disbelievers. 10 Leave Me alone [to deal] with him whom I have created alone, 11 And for whom I appointed wealth extended. 12 And children to be by his side! 13 And made (life) smooth for him. 14 and yet, he greedily desires that I give yet more! 15 Nay, verily, it is against Our messages that he knowingly, stubbornly sets himself 16 I will make a distressing punishment overtake him. 17 He reflected and then hatched a scheme. 18 May he be accursed, how he planned! 19 And once more let him be cursed, how he plotted! 20 Then he looked, 21 Then he frowned and scowled; 22 and he turned his back and behaved arrogantly 23 Then said he: "This is nothing but magic, derived from of old; 24 Nothing more than the speech of a man!" 25 I will cast him into Hell-fire 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. 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