The Hidden Secret (Al-Muddath-thir)
In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate
O you who are clothed! 1 Rise up and warn! 2 proclaim the greatness of your Lord, 3 And your garments purify! 4 And banish all trepidation. 5 And bestow not favour that thou mayest receive more. 6 and persevere for your Lord's sake. 7 When the trumpet is sounded,. 8 that very Day shall be a day of anguish, 9 For the unbelievers, anything but easy. 10 Leave Me alone with he whom I created 11 And then granted him resources in abundance. 12 And sons always present by his side, 13 To whom I made (life) smooth and comfortable! 14 yet he is eager that I increase him. 15 By no means! Verily he hath been unto Our signs a foe. 16 [and so] I shall constrain him to endure a painful uphill climb! 17 Indeed he thought, and inwardly decided. 18 So may he be destroyed [for] how he deliberated. 19 And once more let him be cursed, how he plotted! 20 Then looked he, 21 Then he frowned and he looked in a bad tempered way; 22 and he turned his back and behaved arrogantly 23 and said, "This is nothing but sorcery from the ancients. 24 This is not but the word of a human being." 25 Him shall I soon roast in Hell. 26 And what knoweth thou that which the Scorching Fire? 27 It leaves and spares no one and nothing. 28 scorching the flesh; 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