The Hidden Secret (Al-Muddath-thir)
In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate
O you (Muhammad SAW) enveloped (in garments)! 1 Arise and warn 2 Glorify your Lord, 3 thy robes purify 4 And uncleanness do shun, 5 Do not bestow favours in expectation of return, 6 And for the good-will of thy Lord be thou patient. 7 When the Horn is blown, 8 That Day will be a difficult day 9 not an easy day for the unbelievers. 10 Leave Me and him whom I created alone, 11 And then granted him resources in abundance. 12 and sons that stand in witness. 13 and whom I have provided with every resource, 14 Yet he desires that I should give more. 15 Nay! Verily, he has been stubborn and opposing Our Ayat (proofs, evidences, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, etc.). 16 Anon I shall afflict him with a fearful woe. 17 For he thought and he plotted;- 18 And woe to him! How he plotted!- 19 What an evil plan he has made! 20 Then looked he, 21 Then he frowned and he looked in a bad tempered way; 22 Then turned his back and waxed proud, 23 And said, “This is nothing but magic learnt from earlier men.” 24 "This is nothing but the word of a human being!" 25 I shall surely roast him in Sakar; 26 And what do you know what Hell is? 27 It spares not (any sinner), nor does it leave (anything unburnt)! 28 scorching the flesh; 29 and it has nineteen angelic keepers. 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