The Hidden Secret (Al-Muddath-thir)
In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful
O thou wrapped up (in the mantle)! 1 Arise and deliver thy warning! 2 And thy Sustainer's greatness glorify! 3 Purify your inner self, 4 and shun uncleanness, 5 and bestow not favour in order to seek from others a greater return, 6 and be patient unto thy Lord. 7 And when the trumpet is blown, 8 that Day will be a hard and distressing Day. 9 For the disbelievers - not easy. 10 Leave Me alone with he whom I created 11 And for whom I appointed wealth extended. 12 And sons dwelling in his presence, 13 And made things easy for them. 14 Yet he wants that I should give him more. 15 By no means! For to Our Signs he has been refractory! 16 Soon I shall mount him on Saood, the hill of fire. 17 For he thought and he plotted;- 18 And woe to him! How he plotted!- 19 What an evil plan he has made! 20 Then he looked round; 21 then he frowned, and scowled, 22 and he turned his back and behaved arrogantly 23 and says, "All this is mere spellbinding eloquence handed down [from olden times]! 24 "This is nothing but the word of a mortal!" 25 I will cast him into Hell-fire 26 And what could make thee conceive what hell-fire is? 27 It shall not spare, nor leave. 28 Scorching the skin. 29 Over it are nineteen keepers. 30 And We have appointed none but the angels to be wardens of the Fire. And their number we have made only a trial for those who disbelieve, so that those who are vouchsafed the Book may be convinced, and that those who believe may increase in faith, and that those who are vouchsafed the Book and the believers may not doubt, and that those in whose hearts is a disease and the infidels may say: what meaneth Allah by this description! In this wise Allah sendeth astray whomsoever He will, and guideth whomsoever He will. And none knoweth the hosts of thy Lord but He. And it is naught but an admonition unto man. 31