The Hidden Secret (Al-Muddath-thir)
In the name of Allah, most benevolent, ever-merciful
O you (Muhammad SAW) enveloped (in garments)! 1 Arise and warn! 2 And thine Lord magnify! 3 And keep your clothes clean. 4 And uncleanness do shun, 5 do not bestow a favour in the expectation of receiving more in return; 6 But, for thy Lord's (Cause), be patient and constant! 7 And when the trumpet is blown, 8 That Day will be a difficult day 9 For the unbelievers, anything but easy. 10 Leave Me alone [to deal] with him whom I have created alone, 11 and appointed for him ample wealth 12 And sons dwelling in his presence, 13 and to whose life I gave so wide a scope: 14 And who yet coveteth that shall increase. 15 Never! For he is an enemy to Our signs! 16 On him I shall impose a fearful doom. 17 For he thought and he plotted;- 18 So may he be destroyed [for] how he deliberated. 19 May be then be accursed, how he plotted! 20 Then he considered [again]; 21 then frowned and scowled; 22 then he retreated and grew proud 23 and said: “This (Qur'an) is merely a sorcery of yore; 24 This is not but the word of a human being." 25 Soon will I cast him into Hell-Fire! 26 What do you think Hell-fire is? 27 It shall not spare, nor leave. 28 It shrivelleth the man. 29 and it has nineteen angelic keepers. 30 We have not appointed any one but angels as keepers of Hell, and their number that We have fixed is to make it a means of contention for disbelievers, so that those who were given the Book may be certain, and the faith of the believers may have greater increase, and the people of the Book and believers may not be deceived, and the sceptics and infidels may say: "What does God mean by this parable?" That is how God leads whosoever He will astray, and guides whosoever He will. None knows the armies of your Lord save Him self. This is no more than reminder for mankind. 31