The Hidden Secret (Al-Muddath-thir)
In the name of Allah, most benevolent, ever-merciful
O thou enveloped in thy cloak, 1 arise and give warning! 2 Glorify your Lord, 3 And thine inner self purify! 4 And pollution shun. 5 And bestow not favors that you may receive again with increase, 6 But, for thy Lord's (Cause), be patient and constant! 7 When the Trumpet is sounded, 8 that day will be a harsh day, 9 Far from easy for those without Faith. 10 LEAVE Me alone [to deal] with him whom I have created alone, 11 And for whom I appointed wealth extended. 12 And gave him sons present before him. 13 And spread [everything] before him, easing [his life]. 14 Then he desires that I should add more. 15 Not at all! Surely, he has been disobedient to Our verses. 16 Anon I shall afflict him with a fearful woe. 17 He reflected and then hatched a scheme. 18 and woe to him; how he plotted! 19 Again (self-)destroyed is he, how he planned! - 20 He looked (at others); 21 Then he frowned and he looked in a bad tempered way; 22 Then he turned back and was haughty; 23 And said, “This is nothing but magic learnt from earlier men.” 24 It is nothing but the word of a mortal' 25 I will soon fling him into hell. 26 Would that you really knew what hell is! 27 It lets nothing remain and leaves nothing [unburned], 28 scorching the flesh; 29 Over it are nineteen [angels]. 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