The Hidden Secret (Al-Muddath-thir)
In the name of Allah, most benevolent, ever-merciful
O you (Muhammad SAW) enveloped (in garments)! 1 Arise and warn! 2 Glorify your Lord, 3 And thine inner self purify! 4 And uncleanness do shun, 5 Do not give, thinking to gain greater 6 but unto thy Sustainer turn in patience. 7 When the Horn is blown, 8 So that is a tough day. 9 for the unbelievers not easy. 10 Leave Me alone with he whom I created 11 and to whom I have granted resources in abundance, 12 And sons to be by his side!- 13 and whom I have provided with every resource, 14 then he is eager that I should do more. 15 No! Indeed, he has been toward Our verses obstinate. 16 [and so] I shall constrain him to endure a painful uphill climb! 17 He planned and plotted. 18 Ruin seize him, how did he hatch a scheme? 19 And once more let him be cursed, how he plotted! 20 and then he looks [around for new arguments,] 21 And frowned and puckered his brow, 22 Then he turned back and was haughty; 23 and says, "All this is mere spellbinding eloquence handed down [from olden times]! 24 This is naught but the word of a mortal. 25 I will cast him into hell. 26 And what will make you realize what hell is? 27 It spares nothing; it leaves nothing intact; 28 Blackening the skins. 29 and it has nineteen angelic 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