The Hidden Secret (Al-Muddath-thir)
Allah - beginning with the name of - the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
O thou enveloped in thy cloak, 1 Arise and warn! 2 Glorify your Lord, 3 cleanse your clothes, 4 And all abomination shun! 5 And do not favour others in order to receive more. 6 but unto thy Sustainer turn in patience. 7 Then, when the Trumpet is sounded (i.e. its second blowing); 8 it will be a hard day 9 not of ease, for all who [now] deny the truth! 10 Leave Me and him whom I created alone, 11 And for whom I appointed wealth extended. 12 And children to be by his side! 13 and to whose life I gave so wide a scope: 14 then he is eager that I should do more. 15 Never! For he is an enemy to Our signs! 16 On him I shall impose a fearful doom. 17 Verily he considered, and devised. 18 and woe to him; how he plotted! 19 yea, he destroys himself, the way he meditates! 20 Then he looked round; 21 Then frowned and grimaced. 22 and in the end he turns his back [on Our message,] and glories in his arrogance, 23 Then said he: "This is nothing but magic, derived from of old; 24 It is nothing but the word of a mortal' 25 Him shall I soon roast in Hell. 26 What will let you know what the Scorching is like! 27 It leaves naught nor does it spare aught. 28 Burning the skins! 29 Over it are nineteen (angels guarding). 30 We have not appointed the guards of hell, except angels; and did not keep this number except to test the disbelievers – in order that the People given the Book(s) may be convinced, and to increase the faith of the believers – and so that the People given the Book(s) and the Muslims may not have any doubt – and so that those in whose hearts is a disease and the disbelievers, may say, “What does Allah mean by this amazing example?” This is how Allah sends astray whomever He wills, and guides whomever He wills; and no one knows the armies of Allah except Him; and this is not but an advice to man. 31