The Hidden Secret (Al-Muddath-thir)
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
O you (Muhammad SAW) enveloped (in garments)! 1 arise, and warn! 2 Thy Lord magnify 3 cleanse your clothes, 4 Pollution shun! 5 And bestow not favors that you may receive again with increase, 6 But for your Lord be patient. 7 For when the trumpet is sounded, 8 That, at that time, shall be a difficult day, 9 For the infidels, not easy. 10 Leave Me alone [to deal] with him whom I have created alone, 11 And gave him abundant wealth 12 and sons ever present with him, 13 and made all things smooth for him; 14 Then he desires that I should add more. 15 Never. He is refractory of Our signs. 16 Soon I shall mount him on Saood, the hill of fire. 17 Verily, he thought and plotted; 18 and woe to him; how he plotted! 19 yea, he destroys himself, the way he meditates! 20 Then he thought; 21 Then he frowned and he looked in a bad tempered way; 22 Then turned he back, and grew stiff-necked. 23 And said, “This is nothing but magic learnt from earlier men.” 24 this is nothing but the word of a mere mortal!” 25 I shall make him suffer the torment of hell. 26 And what could make thee conceive what hell-fire is? 27 It neither spares, nor releases, 28 Scorching the skin. 29 Above it are nineteen. 30 We have appointed only angels to be wardens of the Fire, and their number have We made to be a stumbling-block for those who disbelieve; that those to whom the Scripture hath been given may have certainty, and that believers may increase in faith; and that those to whom the Scripture hath been given and believers may not doubt; and that those in whose hearts there is disease, and disbelievers, may say: What meaneth Allah by this similitude? Thus Allah sendeth astray whom He will, and whom He will He guideth. None knoweth the hosts of thy Lord save Him. This is naught else than a Reminder unto mortals. 31