The Hidden Secret (Al-Muddath-thir)
In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful
O THOU [in thy solitude] enfolded! 1 Arise, and warn. 2 And your Lord (Allah) magnify! 3 And your garments do purify, 4 And all defilement shun! 5 and bestow not favour in order to seek from others a greater return, 6 be patient unto your Lord. 7 When the trumpet is sounded,. 8 that will surely be a hard day, 9 For the disbelievers - not easy. 10 LEAVE Me alone [to deal] with him whom I have created alone, 11 And then granted him resources in abundance. 12 and sons that stand in witness. 13 And made several preparations for him. 14 and yet, he greedily desires that I give him even more! 15 No! Indeed, he has been toward Our verses obstinate. 16 Soon will I visit him with a mount of calamities! 17 Indeed he thought, and inwardly decided. 18 So may he be destroyed [for] how he deliberated. 19 Again, death seized him, how was his determining! 20 and then he looks [around for new arguments,] 21 And frowned and puckered his brow, 22 Then he turned back and was big with pride, 23 And said: "This is nothing but the magic of old, 24 This is nothing but the word of mortal man!" 25 I will soon fling him into hell. 26 And what have you understood, what hell is! 27 It leaves nothing, nor does it spare; 28 It strips away the hide of man. 29 Over it are nineteen [angels]. 30 And We have appointed none but the angels to be wardens of the Fire. And their number we have made only a trial for those who disbelieve, so that those who are vouchsafed the Book may be convinced, and that those who believe may increase in faith, and that those who are vouchsafed the Book and the believers may not doubt, and that those in whose hearts is a disease and the infidels may say: what meaneth Allah by this description! In this wise Allah sendeth astray whomsoever He will, and guideth whomsoever He will. And none knoweth the hosts of thy Lord but He. And it is naught but an admonition unto man. 31