The Hidden Secret (Al-Muddath-thir)
In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
O thou enveloped! 1 Arise and warn! 2 and magnify the glory of your Lord, 3 And keep your clothes clean. 4 stay away from sins 5 And do not through giving seek thyself to gain, 6 For the sake of thy Lord, be patient! 7 When the Horn is blown, 8 That shall be - that Day - a day hard. 9 For the unbelievers, anything but easy. 10 Leave Me alone with he whom I created 11 and designated for him ample wealth, 12 And sons present by his side. 13 And made things easy for them. 14 then he is eager that I should do more. 15 By no means! He has been stubbornly hostile to Our revelation: 16 [and so] I shall constrain him to endure a painful uphill climb! 17 Lo! He reflected, and determined -- 18 Perish he! How maliciously he devised! 19 May be then be accursed, how he plotted! 20 Then he looked round; 21 frowned and scowled, 22 Then turned his back and waxed proud, 23 and said: “This (Qur'an) is merely a sorcery of yore; 24 Naught is this but the word of Man. 25 Him shall I soon roast in Hell. 26 And what do you know what Hell is? 27 It neither spares, nor releases, 28 It glows and burns the skin. 29 there are nineteen [angels] in charge of it -- 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