The Hidden Secret (Al-Muddath-thir)
In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate
O you enveloped in your cloak! 1 arise and give warning! 2 And your Lord do magnify, 3 And your garments do purify, 4 Pollution shun! 5 And give not a thing in order to have more (or consider not your deeds of Allah's obedience as a favour to Allah). 6 and persevere for your Lord's sake. 7 Then when the horn shall be blown, 8 it will be a hard day 9 For the disbelievers - not easy. 10 Leave Me and him whom I created alone, 11 And then bestowed upon him ample means, 12 And gave him sons present before him. 13 and to whose life I gave so wide a scope: 14 yet he is eager that I increase him. 15 By no means! For to Our Signs he has been refractory! 16 I shall inflict on him hardship, 17 He reflected, and then determined 18 So accursed be he, how evilly did he decide! 19 What an evil plan he has made! 20 Then he looked, 21 Then frowned and grimaced. 22 Then turned his back and waxed proud, 23 and says, "All this is mere spellbinding eloquence handed down [from olden times]! 24 Nothing more than the speech of a man!" 25 Him shall I fling unto the burning. 26 - Ah, what will convey unto thee what that burning is! - 27 It does not allow anyone to live, and neither does it leave anyone to die; 28 It scorches people's skin 29 and it has nineteen angelic keepers. 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