The Hidden Secret (Al-Muddath-thir)
In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful
O you who are clothed! 1 Arise, and warn. 2 Thy Lord magnify, 3 Thy raiment purify, 4 And banish all trepidation. 5 Do not bestow favours in expectation of return, 6 but unto thy Sustainer turn in patience. 7 When the trumpet is sounded,. 8 Surely that day will be a day of anguish, 9 not of ease, for all who [now] deny the truth! 10 Leave Me Alone (to deal) with whom I created Alone (without any means, i.e. Al-Walid bin Al-Mughirah Al-Makhzumi)! 11 and designated for him ample wealth, 12 and sons that stand in witness. 13 and made all things smooth for him; 14 then he is eager that I should do more. 15 Nay! He is forward unto Our signs; 16 Soon will I visit him with a mount of calamities! 17 Surely he reflected and guessed, 18 death seized him, how was his determining! 19 Let him be destroyed. How he calculated! 20 Then he looked around, 21 and then he frowns and glares, 22 then turned back, and swelling-up with pride, 23 Then he said: This is naught but enchantment, narrated (from others); 24 This is naught but the word of a mortal. 25 I will soon fling him into hell. 26 What will let you know what the Scorching is like! 27 It neither leaves, nor spares. 28 It shrivelleth the man. 29 Over it are appointed nineteen. 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