The Hidden Secret (Al-Muddath-thir)
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
Cloaked one, 1 Arise, and warn. 2 And proclaim the Purity of your Lord. 3 cleanse your clothes, 4 And pollution shun. 5 And do not favour others in order to receive more. 6 and for the sake of your Lord, be patient. 7 And when the trumpet is blown, 8 It will be a day of distress, 9 Not easy upon the disbelievers. 10 Leave Me alone with he whom I created 11 And gave him vast wealth. 12 And sons abiding in his presence 13 And made (life) smooth for him. 14 Then he desires that I should add more. 15 Nay! He is forward unto Our signs; 16 I will constrain him to a hard ascent. 17 Verily, he thought and plotted; 18 And woe to him! How he plotted!- 19 Again, ruin seize him, how did he hatch a scheme? 20 Then he considered [again]; 21 then he frowned, and scowled, 22 Then turned his back and waxed proud, 23 Then he said: This is naught but enchantment, narrated (from others); 24 This is naught else than speech of mortal man. 25 Soon I will cast him into hell. 26 and what will teach thee what is Sakar? 27 It lets nothing remain and leaves nothing [unburned], 28 It scorches people's skin 29 Over it are nineteen keepers. 30 We have appointed only angels to be wardens of the Fire, and their number have We made to be a stumbling-block for those who disbelieve; that those to whom the Scripture hath been given may have certainty, and that believers may increase in faith; and that those to whom the Scripture hath been given and believers may not doubt; and that those in whose hearts there is disease, and disbelievers, may say: What meaneth Allah by this similitude? Thus Allah sendeth astray whom He will, and whom He will He guideth. None knoweth the hosts of thy Lord save Him. This is naught else than a Reminder unto mortals. 31