The Hidden Secret (Al-Muddath-thir)
In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate
O thou wrapped up (in the mantle)! 1 Rise up and warn! 2 Thy Lord magnify, 3 Purify your inner self, 4 And pollution shun. 5 And do not confer favor to acquire more 6 and be patient unto thy Lord. 7 Then when the horn shall be blown, 8 that shall be a Harsh Day 9 For the unbelievers, anything but easy. 10 Leave Me Alone (to deal) with whom I created Alone (without any means, i.e. Al-Walid bin Al-Mughirah Al-Makhzumi)! 11 To whom I granted resources in abundance, 12 and sons that stand in witness. 13 and whom I have provided with every resource, 14 and who still desires more. 15 Not at all! Surely, he has been disobedient to Our verses. 16 Soon will I visit him with a mount of calamities! 17 Indeed he thought, and inwardly decided. 18 So let him be cursed! How he plotted! 19 May be then be accursed, how he plotted! 20 He looked (at others); 21 Then frowned and grimaced. 22 then turned back, and swelling-up with pride, 23 He said, 'This is naught but a trumped-up sorcery; 24 This is not but the word of a human being." 25 I will cast him into Hell-fire 26 What could make you conceive what hell-fire is? 27 It neither spares, nor releases, 28 It scorches the mortal. 29 there are nineteen [angels] in charge of it -- 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