The Hidden Secret (Al-Muddath-thir)
Allah - beginning with the name of - the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
O you who are clothed! 1 stand up, deliver your warning, 2 And your Lord do magnify, 3 And your garments do purify, 4 And banish all trepidation. 5 do not bestow a favour in the expectation of receiving more in return; 6 be patient unto your Lord. 7 When the Trumpet shall be sounded, 8 Surely that day will be a day of anguish, 9 For the infidels, not easy. 10 Leave Me alone with he whom I created 11 and designated for him ample wealth, 12 And gave him sons present before him. 13 And made life smooth and comfortable for him! 14 After all that he desires that I should give more; 15 By no means! He has been stubbornly hostile to Our revelation: 16 I shall soon constrain him to a hard ascent. 17 Surely he reflected and guessed, 18 So may he be destroyed [for] how he deliberated. 19 And again perish he! How maliciously he devised! 20 Then he looked, 21 Then he frowned and he looked in a bad tempered way; 22 Then he turned back and was big with pride, 23 And said, “This is nothing but magic learnt from earlier men.” 24 This is nothing but the word of a mortal!" 25 Him shall I fling unto the burning. 26 And what do you know what Hell is? 27 It shall not spare, nor leave. 28 It scorches people's skin 29 Above it are nineteen. 30 We have not appointed the guards of hell, except angels; and did not keep this number except to test the disbelievers – in order that the People given the Book(s) may be convinced, and to increase the faith of the believers – and so that the People given the Book(s) and the Muslims may not have any doubt – and so that those in whose hearts is a disease and the disbelievers, may say, “What does Allah mean by this amazing example?” This is how Allah sends astray whomever He wills, and guides whomever He wills; and no one knows the armies of Allah except Him; and this is not but an advice to man. 31