The Hidden Secret (Al-Muddath-thir)
Allah - beginning with the name of - the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
O YOU ENFOLDED in your mantle (of reform), 1 Rise up and warn! 2 Glorify your Lord, 3 And your garments do purify, 4 And all abomination shun! 5 And bestow not favour that thou mayest receive more. 6 be patient unto your Lord. 7 So when the Trumpet will be blown. 8 That Day will be a difficult day 9 Not easy upon the disbelievers. 10 Leave Me with him whom I alone have created, 11 And gave him abundant wealth 12 And sons present by his side. 13 And for whom I smoothed everything. 14 And yet he desires that I should add more! 15 By no means! surely he offers opposition to Our communications. 16 Soon will I visit him with a mount of calamities! 17 Indeed he thought, and inwardly decided. 18 death seize him, how he determined! 19 yea, he destroys himself, the way he meditates! 20 Then he looked round; 21 Then he frowned and he looked in a bad tempered way; 22 Then he turned back and was proud; 23 said, "This (the Quran) is nothing but magic, inherited from ancient magicians. 24 This is nothing but the word of mortal man!" 25 I shall make him suffer the torment of hell. 26 And what do you know what Hell is? 27 It does not allow to live, and neither leaves [to die,] 28 It glows and burns the skin. 29 and it has nineteen angelic keepers. 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