The Hidden Secret (Al-Muddath-thir)
In the Name of Allah, the Merciful, the Most Merciful
O you who are clothed! 1 Arise and warn! 2 And proclaim the Purity of your Lord. 3 Thy raiment purify, 4 And pollution shun. 5 and bestow not favour in order to seek from others a greater return, 6 And for the sake of your Lord, patiently endure. 7 Finally, when the Trumpet is sounded, 8 Surely that day will be a day of anguish, 9 Far from easy for those without Faith. 10 Let Me alone with him whom I created lonely. 11 To whom I granted resources in abundance, 12 and children as [love's] witnesses, 13 and to whose life I gave so wide a scope: 14 After all that he desires that I should give more; 15 Never will he receive more. He has been hostile to Our revelations. 16 [and so] I shall constrain him to endure a painful uphill climb! 17 Verily he considered, and devised. 18 and woe to him; how he plotted! 19 yea, he destroys himself, the way he meditates! 20 Then looked he, 21 frowned and scowled; 22 and in the end he turns his back [on Our message,] and glories in his arrogance, 23 And said: This is naught else than magic from of old; 24 This is nothing but the word of mortal man!" 25 Him shall I soon roast in Hell. 26 What do you think Hell-fire is? 27 It neither leaves, nor spares. 28 and it burns the flesh. 29 Over it are nineteen [angels]. 30 We have appointed none but angels to guard the Fire, and made their number only as a trial for the unbelievers, so that those to whom the Book was given are certain and those who believe increase in belief. And that those who were given the Book, and those who believe will not be in doubt. And that those in whose hearts there is a sickness, together with the unbelievers, may say: 'What did Allah intend by this as an example' As such, Allah leaves in error whom He will and He guides whomsoever He will. None knows the hosts of your Lord except He. This is no more than a Reminder to humans. 31