The Hidden Secret (Al-Muddath-thir)
In the name of God, The Most Gracious, The Dispenser of Grace
O, you, wrapped in your cloak, 1 Arise and warn! 2 And your Lord do magnify, 3 thy robes purify 4 Pollution shun! 5 And do not through giving seek thyself to gain, 6 Exercise patience to please your Lord. 7 For when the trumpet shall sound, 8 that day will be a harsh day, 9 Far from easy for those without Faith. 10 Leave him to Me whom I created alone, 11 and appointed for him ample wealth 12 and children as [love's] witnesses, 13 And I adjusted affairs for him adjustably; 14 After all that he desires that I should give more; 15 By no means! For to Our Signs he has been refractory! 16 I will constrain him to a hard ascent. 17 Indeed he thought, and inwardly decided. 18 and thus he destroys himself, the way he meditates: 19 Again, death seize him, how he determined! 20 Then he looked around, 21 Then he frowned and scowled; 22 then turned back, and swelling-up with pride, 23 And said, "This is not but magic imitated [from others]. 24 Nothing more than the speech of a man!" 25 I shall surely roast him in Sakar; 26 And what can make you know what is Saqar? 27 It leaves nothing, nor does it spare; 28 making [all truth] visible to mortal man. 29 Over it are nineteen [powers]. 30 For We have caused none but angelic powers to lord over the fire [of hell]; and We have not caused their number to be aught but a trial for those who are bent on denying the truth - to the end that they who have been granted revelation aforetime might be convinced [of the truth of this divine writ]; and that they who have attained to faith [in it] might grow yet more firm in their faith; and that [both] they who have been granted the earlier revelation and they who believe [in this one] might be freed of all doubt; and that they in whose hearts is disease and they who deny the truth outright might ask, "What does [your] God mean by this parable?" In this way God lets go astray him that wills [to go astray,] and guides aright him that wills [to be guided]. And none can comprehend thy Sustainers forces save Him alone: and all this is but a reminder to mortal man. 31