The Hidden Secret (Al-Muddath-thir)
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
O you (Prophet Muhamad), the cloaked, 1 Arise and warn! 2 and magnify the glory of your Lord, 3 And thine raiment purify. 4 And banish all trepidation. 5 Nor expect, in giving, any increase (for thyself)! 6 But for your Lord be patient. 7 For when the Trump is sounded 8 that will surely be a hard day, 9 for the unbelievers not easy. 10 Leave Me with him whom I created alone, 11 and designated for him ample wealth, 12 and children living in his presence, 13 and for whom I have smoothed the way (to power and riches), 14 Yet he wants that I should give him more. 15 Not at all! Surely, he has been disobedient to Our verses. 16 [and so] I shall constrain him to endure a painful uphill climb! 17 For he had thought and calculated. 18 Perish he! How maliciously he devised! 19 Again accursed be he, how evilly did he decide! 20 He then dared to lift his gaze. 21 And frowned and puckered his brow, 22 and he turned his back and behaved arrogantly 23 and said: “This (Qur'an) is merely a sorcery of yore; 24 This is naught else than speech of mortal man. 25 Anon shall I roast him into the Scorching Fire. 26 And what will explain to thee what Hell-Fire is? 27 It does not allow anyone to live, and neither does it leave anyone to die; 28 it scorches the skin; 29 there are nineteen [angels] in charge of it -- 30 We have appointed only angels to be wardens of the Fire, and their number have We made to be a stumbling-block for those who disbelieve; that those to whom the Scripture hath been given may have certainty, and that believers may increase in faith; and that those to whom the Scripture hath been given and believers may not doubt; and that those in whose hearts there is disease, and disbelievers, may say: What meaneth Allah by this similitude? Thus Allah sendeth astray whom He will, and whom He will He guideth. None knoweth the hosts of thy Lord save Him. This is naught else than a Reminder unto mortals. 31