The Hidden Secret (Al-Muddath-thir)
In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful
O you enveloped in your cloak! 1 Rise up and warn! 2 And your Lord (Allah) magnify! 3 thy robes purify 4 stay away from sins 5 Do not bestow favours in expectation of return, 6 For the sake of thy Lord, be patient! 7 So when the Trumpet will be blown. 8 That, at that time, shall be a difficult day, 9 for the unbelievers not easy. 10 Leave Me alone with he whom I created 11 And gave him abundant wealth 12 and sons standing before him, 13 and made all things smooth for him; 14 Yet he wants that I should give him more. 15 By no means! Verily he hath been unto Our signs a foe. 16 Anon I shall afflict him with a fearful woe. 17 He planned and plotted. 18 So let him be cursed! How he plotted! 19 And once more let him be cursed, how he plotted! 20 Then he thought; 21 Then he frowned and he looked in a bad tempered way; 22 Then turned his back and waxed proud, 23 Then said he: "This is nothing but magic, derived from of old; 24 'this is nothing but mortal speech.' 25 I will surely roast him in the Scorching. 26 What could make you conceive what hell-fire is? 27 It spares not, neither leaves alone 28 Burning the skins! 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