The Hidden Secret (Al-Muddath-thir)
In the name of Allah, most benevolent, ever-merciful
O you enveloped in your cloak! 1 Arise, and warn. 2 Glorify your Lord, 3 And keep your clothes clean. 4 And uncleanness do shun, 5 Give not, thinking to gain greater 6 be patient unto your Lord. 7 So when the Trumpet will be blown. 8 So that is a tough day. 9 For the unbelievers, anything but easy. 10 Leave Me with him whom I alone have created, 11 To whom I granted resources in abundance, 12 and children as [love's] witnesses, 13 and whom I have provided with every resource, 14 then he is eager that I should do more. 15 Nay! He is forward unto Our signs; 16 We shall make him suffer the torment of hell without relief. 17 He reflected and then hatched a scheme. 18 and thus he destroys himself, the way he meditates: 19 Again accursed be he, how evilly did he decide! 20 and then he looks [around for new arguments,] 21 and then he frowns and glares, 22 Then turned his back and waxed proud, 23 And said: This is naught else than magic from of old; 24 These are only words from a mere mortal". 25 I will cast him into the fire of Hell. 26 and what will teach thee what is Sakar? 27 It neither leaves, nor spares. 28 scorching the flesh; 29 Over it are nineteen keepers. 30 We have not appointed any one but angels as keepers of Hell, and their number that We have fixed is to make it a means of contention for disbelievers, so that those who were given the Book may be certain, and the faith of the believers may have greater increase, and the people of the Book and believers may not be deceived, and the sceptics and infidels may say: "What does God mean by this parable?" That is how God leads whosoever He will astray, and guides whosoever He will. None knows the armies of your Lord save Him self. This is no more than reminder for mankind. 31