The Hidden Secret (Al-Muddath-thir)
In the name of Allah, most benevolent, ever-merciful
O you who are clothed! 1 Rise up and warn! 2 And your Lord (Allah) magnify! 3 Purify your inner self, 4 And banish all trepidation. 5 And do not through giving seek thyself to gain, 6 And for the sake of your Lord, patiently endure. 7 For when the Trump is sounded 8 That Day will be a difficult day 9 Not of ease, for disbelievers. 10 Leave Me alone with he whom I created 11 and whom I have granted abundant wealth 12 and children as [love's] witnesses, 13 whose life I have made run smoothly 14 And yet he desires that I should add more! 15 By no means! Verily he hath been unto Our signs a foe. 16 I will make a distressing punishment overtake him. 17 Surely he reflected and guessed, 18 May he be accursed, how he planned! 19 May be then be accursed, how he plotted! 20 Then looked he, 21 Then he frowned and he scowled; 22 Then he turned back and was arrogant 23 Then he said: naught is this but magic from of old; 24 'this is nothing but mortal speech.' 25 Soon I will cast him into hell. 26 And what can make you know what is Saqar? 27 It does not allow to live, and neither leaves [to die,] 28 Scorching the skin. 29 Over it are nineteen keepers. 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