The Hidden Secret (Al-Muddath-thir)
In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful
O thou enveloped! 1 arise, and warn! 2 Glorify your Lord, 3 and purify your clothing, 4 and defilement flee! 5 Give not, thinking to gain greater 6 Exercise patience to please your Lord. 7 So when the Trumpet will be blown. 8 that day will be a harsh day, 9 For the unbelievers, anything but easy. 10 Leave Me and him whom I created alone, 11 and designated for him ample wealth, 12 and children as [love's] witnesses, 13 I made things smooth and easy for him, 14 Yet he desireth that I should give more. 15 By no means; he is stubbornly opposed to Our Signs. 16 I shall force him to endure a painful uphill climb! 17 Surely he reflected and guessed, 18 And woe to him! How he plotted!- 19 May be then be accursed, how he plotted! 20 Then he considered [again]; 21 then frowned and scowled; 22 and he turned his back and behaved arrogantly 23 said, "This (the Quran) is nothing but magic, inherited from ancient magicians. 24 'this is nothing but mortal speech.' 25 Soon I will cast him into hell. 26 What could make you conceive what hell-fire is? 27 It does not allow to live, and neither leaves [to die,] 28 it scorches the skin; 29 Above it are nineteen. 30 And We have set none but angels as guardians of the Fire, and We have fixed their number (19) only as a trial for the disbelievers, in order that the people of the Scripture (Jews and Christians) may arrive at a certainty [that this Quran is the truth as it agrees with their Books i.e. their number (19) is written in the Taurat (Torah) and the Injeel (Gospel)] and the believers may increase in Faith (as this Quran is the truth) and that no doubts may be left for the people of the Scripture and the believers, and that those in whose hearts is a disease (of hypocrisy) and the disbelievers may say: "What Allah intends by this (curious) example?" Thus Allah leads astray whom He wills and guides whom He wills. And none can know the hosts of your Lord but He. And this (Hell) is nothing else than a (warning) reminder to mankind. 31