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 Thy Lord magnify 3 purify your garments; 4 And all defilement shun! 5 Nor expect, in giving, any increase (for thyself)! 6 And persevere in the way of your Lord. 7 And when the trumpet is blown, 8 that shall be a Harsh Day 9 For the disbelievers - not easy. 10 Leave him to Me, the one whom I created single. 11 whom I have endowed with abundant riches, 12 and children as [love's] witnesses, 13 and for whom I have smoothed the way (to power and riches), 14 then he is eager that I should do more. 15 Never! For he is an enemy to Our signs! 16 I will constrain him to a hard ascent. 17 Verily, he thought and plotted; 18 and thus he destroys himself, the way he meditates: 19 Again accursed be he, how evilly did he decide! 20 Then he looked round; 21 Then he frowned and scowled, 22 Then turned he away in pride 23 Then he said: naught is this but magic from of old; 24 Nothing more than the speech of a man!" 25 I will drive him into Saqar. 26 And what have you understood, what hell is! 27 It neither leaves, nor spares. 28 scorching the flesh; 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