The Hidden Secret (Al-Muddath-thir)
In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate
O YOU ENFOLDED in your mantle (of reform), 1 Arise and warn! 2 And proclaim the Purity of your Lord. 3 cleanse your clothes, 4 Pollution shun! 5 And do not confer favor to acquire more 6 and for the sake of your Lord, be patient. 7 When the Trumpet is sounded, 8 It will be a day of distress, 9 for the unbelievers not easy. 10 Leave to Me the one, whom I have created all by Myself, 11 And gave him vast wealth. 12 and sons that stand in witness. 13 And for whom I smoothed everything. 14 yet he is eager that I increase him. 15 By no means; he is stubbornly opposed to Our Signs. 16 I will make a distressing punishment overtake him. 17 He planned and plotted. 18 death seized him, how was his determining! 19 Again, death seize him, how he determined! 20 Then he looked, 21 and then he frowns and glares, 22 then he retreated and waxed proud, 23 Then he said: This is naught but enchantment, narrated (from others); 24 Naught is this but the word of Man. 25 I will surely roast him in the Scorching. 26 What could make you conceive what hell-fire is? 27 It lets nothing remain and leaves nothing [unburned], 28 Blackening the skins. 29 Over it are nineteen keepers. 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