The Hidden Secret (Al-Muddath-thir)
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
O you enveloped in your cloak! 1 arise, and warn! 2 And proclaim the Purity of your Lord. 3 purify your garments; 4 And uncleanness do shun, 5 Do not give, thinking to gain greater 6 But, for thy Lord's (Cause), be patient and constant! 7 For when the trumpet is sounded, 8 It will be a day of distress, 9 Dolorous for the unbelievers. 10 Leave Me with him whom I created alone, 11 And then granted him resources in abundance. 12 and sons ever present with him, 13 And made several preparations for him. 14 Yet he desires that I should give more. 15 By no means! surely he offers opposition to Our communications. 16 I will make a distressing punishment overtake him. 17 Verily he considered, and devised. 18 (Self-)destroyed is he, how he planned! 19 And once more let him be cursed, how he plotted! 20 Then he thought; 21 Then he frowned and he looked in a bad tempered way; 22 then turned back, and swelling-up with pride, 23 and said: “This (Qur'an) is merely a sorcery of yore; 24 this is nothing but the word of a mere mortal!” 25 Soon I will cast him into hell. 26 And what do you know what Hell is? 27 It leaves and spares no one and nothing. 28 It shrivelleth the man. 29 Above it are nineteen guards. 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