The Hidden Secret (Al-Muddath-thir)
In the name of Allah, most benevolent, ever-merciful
O you (Muhammad SAW) enveloped (in garments)! 1 Arise and deliver thy warning! 2 proclaim the greatness of your Lord, 3 And keep your clothes clean. 4 And pollution shun. 5 And do not favour others in order to receive more. 6 Exercise patience to please your Lord. 7 And when the trumpet is blown, 8 that will surely be a hard day, 9 and it will not be easy for the unbelievers. 10 Leave Me with him whom I alone have created, 11 and designated for him ample wealth, 12 and sons to be by his side, 13 And made life smooth and comfortable for him! 14 And yet he desires that I should add more! 15 Never. He is refractory of Our signs. 16 I shall inflict on him hardship, 17 He reflected and then hatched a scheme. 18 And woe to him! How he plotted!- 19 And once more let him be cursed, how he plotted! 20 Then he beheld, 21 Then frowned and grimaced. 22 Then he turned back and was big with pride, 23 He said, 'This is naught but a trumped-up sorcery; 24 Naught is this but the word of Man. 25 I will cast him into hell. 26 And what will make you realize what hell is? 27 It shall not spare, nor leave. 28 Darkening and changing the colour of man! 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