The Hidden Secret (Al-Muddath-thir)
In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate
O thou enveloped! 1 Rise up and warn! 2 Thy Lord magnify 3 Purify your inner self, 4 stay away from sins 5 And show not favour, seeking wordly gain! 6 be patient unto your Lord. 7 When the Horn is blown, 8 that day will be a harsh day, 9 For the unbelievers, anything but easy. 10 Leave Me alone with he whom I created 11 And gave him abundant wealth 12 And sons always present by his side, 13 and for whom I have smoothed the way (to power and riches), 14 Yet he desires that I should give more. 15 Never. He is refractory of Our signs. 16 On him I shall impose a fearful doom. 17 Indeed, he thought and deliberated. 18 And woe to him! How he plotted!- 19 Again, ruin seize him, how did he hatch a scheme? 20 Then looked he, 21 Then he frowned and scowled; 22 Then turned he back, and grew stiff-necked. 23 He said, 'This is naught but a trumped-up sorcery; 24 Naught is this but the word of Man. 25 [Hence,] I shall cause him to endure hell-fire [in the life to come]! 26 And what will explain to thee what Hell-Fire is? 27 It leaves naught nor does it spare aught. 28 It scorches the mortal. 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