The Hidden Secret (Al-Muddath-thir)
Allah - beginning with the name of - the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
Cloaked one, 1 Arise and warn, 2 Proclaim the glory of your Lord; 3 and purify your robes, 4 And banish all trepidation. 5 Nor expect, in giving, any increase (for thyself)! 6 and for the sake of your Lord, be patient. 7 For when the trumpet shall sound, 8 that shall be a Harsh Day 9 For the disbelievers - not easy. 10 Leave Me with him whom I created alone, 11 And give him vast riches, 12 and sons ever present with him, 13 and to whose life I gave so wide a scope: 14 and who still greedily desires that I should bestow upon him more. 15 By no means! For to Our Signs he has been refractory! 16 Anon I shall afflict him with a fearful woe. 17 Verily, he thought and plotted; 18 and thus he destroys himself, the way he meditates: 19 Let him be destroyed. How he calculated! 20 and then he looks [around for new arguments,] 21 Then he frowned and scowled, 22 and he turned his back and behaved arrogantly 23 And said, "This is not but magic imitated [from others]. 24 'this is nothing but mortal speech.' 25 Him shall I fling unto the burning. 26 And what could make thee conceive what hell-fire is? 27 It lets nothing remain and leaves nothing [unburned], 28 it scorches the skin; 29 over it are nineteen. 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