The Hidden Secret (Al-Muddath-thir)
In the name of Allah, most benevolent, ever-merciful
O the Cloaked One! (Prophet Mohammed – peace and blessings be upon him) 1 Arise and warn, 2 And your Lord glorify 3 And thine raiment purify. 4 and flee from the statues! 5 do not bestow a favour in the expectation of receiving more in return; 6 But for your Lord be patient. 7 And [warn all men that] when the trumpet-call [of resurrection] is sounded, 8 That Day will be a difficult day 9 Far from easy for those without Faith. 10 Leave Me alone [to deal] with him whom I have created alone, 11 And gave him vast wealth. 12 and sons standing before him, 13 whose life I have made run smoothly 14 and who still greedily desires that I should bestow upon him more. 15 Nay, verily, it is against Our messages that he knowingly, stubbornly sets himself 16 I shall soon constrain him to a hard ascent. 17 He planned and plotted. 18 Ruin seize him, how did he hatch a scheme? 19 Let him be destroyed. How he calculated! 20 and then he looks [around for new arguments,] 21 Then he frowned and he looked in a bad tempered way; 22 then he retreated, and waxed proud. 23 He said, 'This is naught but a trumped-up sorcery; 24 This is naught but the word of a mortal. 25 I shall make him suffer the torment of hell. 26 And what will make you realize what hell is? 27 It does not allow to live, and neither leaves [to die,] 28 It shrivelleth the man. 29 over it are nineteen. 30 We have not appointed any one but angels as keepers of Hell, and their number that We have fixed is to make it a means of contention for disbelievers, so that those who were given the Book may be certain, and the faith of the believers may have greater increase, and the people of the Book and believers may not be deceived, and the sceptics and infidels may say: "What does God mean by this parable?" That is how God leads whosoever He will astray, and guides whosoever He will. None knows the armies of your Lord save Him self. This is no more than reminder for mankind. 31