The Hidden Secret (Al-Muddath-thir)
In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
O thou enveloped! 1 Arise, and warn, 2 proclaim the greatness of your Lord, 3 And keep your clothes clean. 4 Pollution shun! 5 And do not favour others in order to receive more. 6 For the sake of thy Lord, be patient! 7 Then, when the Trumpet is sounded (i.e. its second blowing); 8 That shall be - that Day - a day hard. 9 Not easy upon the disbelievers. 10 Leave Me with the one I created alone 11 and whom I have granted abundant wealth 12 And gave him sons present before him. 13 And I adjusted affairs for him adjustably; 14 Yet he desireth that I should give more. 15 By no means! For to Our Signs he has been refractory! 16 [and so] I shall constrain him to endure a painful uphill climb! 17 Indeed he thought, and inwardly decided. 18 So may he be destroyed [for] how he deliberated. 19 Again, ruin seize him, how did he hatch a scheme? 20 Then looked he, 21 then he frowned and scowled, 22 then he retreated and waxed proud, 23 And said, "This is not but magic imitated [from others]. 24 “This is nothing but the speech of a man.” 25 I will surely roast him in the Scorching. 26 And what can make you know what is Saqar? 27 It neither leaves, nor spares. 28 and it burns the flesh. 29 Over it are nineteen [powers]. 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