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 thy Sustainer's greatness glorify! 3 thy robes purify 4 Pollution shun! 5 And show not favour, seeking wordly gain! 6 For the sake of thy Lord, be patient! 7 For when the trumpet is sounded, 8 That shall be - that Day - a day hard. 9 It will not be easy for those who deny the truth. 10 Let Me alone with him whom I created lonely. 11 And gave him vast wealth. 12 and sons to be by his side, 13 And made life smooth and comfortable for him! 14 Yet he wants that I should give him more. 15 By no means! For to Our Signs he has been refractory! 16 I will make a distressing punishment overtake him. 17 He reflected and then hatched a scheme. 18 and thus he destroys himself, the way he meditates: 19 Again, ruin seize him, how did he hatch a scheme? 20 Then he considered [again]; 21 Then he frowned and scowled; 22 then he retreated and grew proud 23 He said, 'This is naught but a trumped-up sorcery; 24 Nothing more than the speech of a man!" 25 I will drive him into Saqar. 26 What could make you conceive what hell-fire is? 27 It neither leaves, nor spares. 28 it scorches (even) the skin. 29 Over it are nineteen (angels guarding). 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