The Hidden Secret (Al-Muddath-thir)
In the name of Allah, most benevolent, ever-merciful
O you enveloped in your cloak! 1 stand up, deliver your warning, 2 And thy Lord do thou magnify! 3 And your garments do purify, 4 And keep away from Ar-Rujz (the idols)! 5 And bestow not favour that thou mayest receive more. 6 And persevere in the way of your Lord. 7 And [warn all men that] when the trumpet-call [of resurrection] is sounded, 8 that shall be a Harsh Day 9 Not easy upon the disbelievers. 10 Leave Me alone with he whom I created 11 And for whom I appointed wealth extended. 12 And sons present by his side. 13 and made all things smooth for him; 14 Yet he desireth that I should give more. 15 Never will he receive more. He has been hostile to Our revelations. 16 Soon I shall mount him on Saood, the hill of fire. 17 He planned and plotted. 18 So may he be destroyed [for] how he deliberated. 19 Again, death seized him, how was his determining! 20 He looked (at others); 21 Then he frowned and he looked in a bad tempered way; 22 and in the end he turns his back [on Our message,] and glories in his arrogance, 23 and said, "This is nothing but sorcery from the ancients. 24 "This is nothing but the word of a human being!" 25 I will drive him into Saqar. 26 And what have you understood, what hell is! 27 It leaveth naught; it spareth naught 28 It shrivelleth the man. 29 Over it are nineteen 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