The Hidden Secret (Al-Muddath-thir)
In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful
O THOU [in thy solitude] enfolded! 1 Rise up and warn! 2 Thy Lord magnify, 3 purify your garments; 4 And pollution shun. 5 And show not favour, seeking wordly gain! 6 Exercise patience to please your Lord. 7 For when the trumpet shall sound, 8 Surely that day will be a day of anguish, 9 Not of ease, for disbelievers. 10 Leave him to Me whom I created alone, 11 And gave him vast wealth. 12 and sons that stand in witness. 13 whose life I have made run smoothly 14 and yet, he greedily desires that I give him even more! 15 Nay, verily, it is against Our messages that he knowingly, stubbornly sets himself 16 I shall force him to endure a painful uphill climb! 17 Surely he reflected and guessed, 18 death seized him, how was his determining! 19 And once more let him be cursed, how he plotted! 20 Then he looked, 21 then he frowned and scowled, 22 Then turned he back, and grew stiff-necked. 23 Then he said: "This is nothing but magic from that of old; 24 This is naught but the word of a mortal. 25 I will cast him into the fire of Hell. 26 What do you think Hell-fire is? 27 It lets nothing remain and leaves nothing [unburned], 28 it scorches (even) the skin. 29 Over it are nineteen (angels guarding). 30 And We have appointed none but the angels to be wardens of the Fire. And their number we have made only a trial for those who disbelieve, so that those who are vouchsafed the Book may be convinced, and that those who believe may increase in faith, and that those who are vouchsafed the Book and the believers may not doubt, and that those in whose hearts is a disease and the infidels may say: what meaneth Allah by this description! In this wise Allah sendeth astray whomsoever He will, and guideth whomsoever He will. And none knoweth the hosts of thy Lord but He. And it is naught but an admonition unto man. 31