The Hidden Secret (Al-Muddath-thir)
In the name of Allah, most benevolent, ever-merciful
O you who are clothed! 1 Arise and warn, 2 And your Lord glorify 3 And thine raiment purify. 4 stay away from sins 5 and bestow not favour in order to seek from others a greater return, 6 For the sake of thy Lord, be patient! 7 When the Trumpet is sounded, 8 It will be a day of distress, 9 not an easy day for the unbelievers. 10 Leave Me alone with he whom I created 11 And gave him abundant wealth 12 and children as [love's] witnesses, 13 and whom I have provided with every resource, 14 Yet he wants that I should give him more. 15 By no means; he is stubbornly opposed to Our Signs. 16 Soon will I visit him with a mount of calamities! 17 Verily he considered, and devised. 18 and woe to him; how he plotted! 19 Again, death seize him, how he determined! 20 Then looked he, 21 frowned and scowled, 22 Then he turned back and was big with pride, 23 and says, "All this is mere spellbinding eloquence handed down [from olden times]! 24 this is nothing but the word of a mere mortal!” 25 Him shall I soon roast in Hell. 26 What could make you conceive what hell-fire is? 27 It does not allow to live, and neither leaves [to die,] 28 It strips away the hide of man. 29 and it has nineteen angelic 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