The Hidden Secret (Al-Muddath-thir)
In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
O thou wrapped up (in the mantle)! 1 Arise and warn 2 and exalt your Lord, 3 And thy garments keep free from stain! 4 Pollution shun! 5 And do not confer favor to acquire more 6 And persevere in the way of your Lord. 7 When the trumpet is sounded,. 8 that shall be a Harsh Day 9 Dolorous for the unbelievers. 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 Then he desires that I should add more. 15 Never! For he is an enemy to Our signs! 16 Soon will I visit him with a mount of calamities! 17 He planned and plotted. 18 And woe to him! How he plotted!- 19 Again, death seized him, how was his determining! 20 Then looked he, 21 then frowned and scowled; 22 Then he turned back and was proud; 23 and said: 'This is no more than traced sorcery; 24 It is nothing but the word of a mortal' 25 [Hence,] I shall cause him to endure hell-fire [in the life to come]! 26 And what will explain to thee what Hell-Fire is? 27 It does not allow to live, and neither leaves [to die,] 28 and it burns the flesh. 29 Above it are nineteen guards. 30 And We have set none but angels as Guardians of the Fire; and We have fixed their number only as a trial for Unbelievers,- in order that the People of the Book may arrive at certainty, and the Believers may increase in Faith,- and that no doubts may be left for the People of the Book and the Believers, and that those in whose hearts is a disease and the Unbelievers may say, "What symbol doth Allah intend by this?" Thus doth Allah leave to stray whom He pleaseth, and guide whom He pleaseth: and none can know the forces of thy Lord, except He and this is no other than a warning to mankind. 31