The Hidden Secret (Al-Muddath-thir)
In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful
O thou shrouded in thy mantle, 1 arise and warn, 2 And proclaim the Purity of your Lord. 3 cleanse your clothes, 4 And uncleanliness avoid 5 Nor expect, in giving, any increase (for thyself)! 6 And for the good-will of thy Lord be thou patient. 7 And [warn all men that] when the trumpet-call [of resurrection] is sounded, 8 That, at that time, shall be a difficult day, 9 Far from easy for the disbelievers. 10 Leave Me and him whom I created alone, 11 and appointed for him ample wealth 12 and sons ever present with him, 13 and to whose life I gave so wide a scope: 14 and yet, he greedily desires that I give him even more! 15 Never. He is refractory of Our signs. 16 Anon I shall afflict him with a fearful woe. 17 He planned and plotted. 18 May he be condemned! 19 What an evil plan he has made! 20 He then dared to lift his gaze. 21 Then he frowned and he scowled; 22 Then he turned back and was proud; 23 and said: 'This is no more than traced sorcery; 24 "This is nothing but the word of a human being!" 25 Soon I will cast him into hell. 26 And what could make thee conceive what hell-fire is? 27 It neither spares, nor releases, 28 It strips away the hide of man. 29 Over 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