The Hidden Secret (Al-Muddath-thir)
In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate
O thou shrouded in thy mantle, 1 Rise up and warn! 2 And your Lord (Allah) magnify! 3 and purify your clothing, 4 stay away from sins 5 Nor expect, in giving, any increase (for thyself)! 6 Exercise patience to please your Lord. 7 Finally, when the Trumpet is sounded, 8 Truly, that Day will be a Hard Day. 9 for the unbelievers not easy. 10 Leave Me with the one I created alone 11 And give him vast riches, 12 and children living in his presence, 13 whose life I have made run smoothly 14 and who still greedily desires that I should bestow upon him more. 15 By no means; he is stubbornly opposed to Our Signs. 16 I will make a distressing punishment overtake him. 17 He reflected and then hatched a scheme. 18 Perish he! How maliciously he devised! 19 And again perish he! How maliciously he devised! 20 He looked (at others); 21 Then he frowned and he scowled; 22 then he retreated, and waxed proud. 23 He said, 'This is naught but a trumped-up sorcery; 24 Naught is this but the word of Man. 25 I will surely roast him in the Scorching. 26 And what could make thee conceive what hell-fire is? 27 It shall not spare, nor leave. 28 It glows and burns the skin. 29 Over it are nineteen (angels as guardians and keepers of Hell). 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