The Hidden Secret (Al-Muddath-thir)
In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate
O you enveloped in your cloak! 1 arise and give warning! 2 Thy Lord magnify, 3 And keep your clothes clean. 4 And uncleanness do shun, 5 Do not give, thinking to gain greater 6 And persevere in the way of your Lord. 7 When the Horn is blown, 8 that Day will be a hard and distressing Day. 9 and it will not be easy for the unbelievers. 10 Leave to Me the one, whom I have created all by Myself, 11 and appointed for him ample wealth 12 and children as [love's] witnesses, 13 whose life I have made run smoothly 14 Yet is he greedy-that I should add (yet more);- 15 By no means; he is stubbornly opposed to Our Signs. 16 Soon I shall mount him on Saood, the hill of fire. 17 Lo! He reflected, and determined -- 18 death seized him, how was his determining! 19 May be then be accursed, how he plotted! 20 Then he looked round; 21 Then frowned and grimaced. 22 then he retreated and waxed proud, 23 Then he said: "This is nothing but magic from that of old; 24 Nothing more than the speech of a man!" 25 I will cast him into the fire of Hell. 26 And what have you understood, what hell is! 27 It does not allow to live, and neither leaves [to die,] 28 Burning the skins! 29 Above it are nineteen. 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