The Hidden Secret (Al-Muddath-thir)
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
O thou shrouded in thy mantle, 1 Arise and warn! 2 Thy Lord magnify, 3 cleanse your clothes, 4 And keep away from Ar-Rujz (the idols)! 5 do not bestow a favour in the expectation of receiving more in return; 6 Exercise patience to please your Lord. 7 Finally, when the Trumpet is sounded, 8 That Day will be a difficult day 9 Far from easy for the disbelievers. 10 Leave him to Me, the one whom I created single. 11 And then bestowed upon him ample means, 12 and sons ever present with him, 13 And for whom I smoothed everything. 14 Yet is he greedy-that I should add (yet more);- 15 No! Indeed, he has been toward Our verses obstinate. 16 and I shall constrain him to a hard ascent. 17 Verily he considered, and devised. 18 and woe to him; how he plotted! 19 Again, may he be cursed how he plotted; 20 Then looked he, 21 then he frowned and scowled, 22 Then he turned away, and was haughty. 23 and says, "All this is mere spellbinding eloquence handed down [from olden times]! 24 “This is nothing but the speech of a man.” 25 [Hence,] I shall cause him to endure hell-fire [in the life to come]! 26 What do you think Hell-fire is? 27 It shall not spare, nor leave. 28 making [all truth] visible to mortal man. 29 Over it are nineteen [angels]. 30 And We have not made the wardens of the fire others than angels, and We have not made their number but as a trial for those who disbelieve, that those who have been given the book may be certain and those who believe may increase in faith, and those who have been given the book and the believers may not doubt, and that those in whose hearts is a disease and the unbelievers may say: What does Allah mean by this parable? Thus does Allah make err whom He pleases, and He guides whom He pleases, and none knows the hosts of your Lord but He Himself; and this is naught but a reminder to the mortals. 31