The Hidden Secret (Al-Muddath-thir)
In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate
O the Cloaked One! (Prophet Mohammed – peace and blessings be upon him) 1 Arise and warn, 2 And your Lord glorify 3 and purify your clothing, 4 and flee from the statues! 5 Do not bestow favours in expectation of return, 6 But for your Lord be patient. 7 When the Horn is blown, 8 That, at that time, shall be a difficult day, 9 not an easy day for the unbelievers. 10 Leave Me with him whom I created alone, 11 and whom I have granted abundant wealth 12 and sons to be by his side, 13 And made several preparations for him. 14 and yet, he greedily desires that I give him even more! 15 Nay! He is forward unto Our signs; 16 and I shall constrain him to a hard ascent. 17 For he had thought and calculated. 18 (Self-)destroyed is he, how he planned! 19 May be then be accursed, how he plotted! 20 Then looked he, 21 and then he frowns and glares, 22 then turned back, and swelling-up with pride, 23 and said, "This is nothing but sorcery from the ancients. 24 This is nothing but the word of a mortal!" 25 Him shall I fling unto the burning. 26 And what have you understood, what hell is! 27 It shall not spare, nor leave. 28 It scorches people's skin 29 there are nineteen [angels] in charge of it -- 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