The Hidden Secret (Al-Muddath-thir)
In the name of Allah, most benevolent, ever-merciful
O you who covers himself [with a garment], 1 Arise and warn 2 and magnify the glory of your Lord, 3 cleanse your clothes, 4 And pollution shun. 5 Give not, thinking to gain greater 6 Exercise patience to please your Lord. 7 For when the trumpet shall sound, 8 it will be a hard day 9 Not of ease, for disbelievers. 10 Leave Me alone, (to deal) with the (creature) whom I created (bare and) alone!- 11 To whom I granted resources in abundance, 12 And sons abiding in his presence 13 and to whose life I gave so wide a scope: 14 Yet he wants that I should give him more. 15 Never will he receive more. He has been hostile to Our revelations. 16 Anon I shall afflict him with a fearful woe. 17 He reflected and then hatched a scheme. 18 (Self-)destroyed is he, how he planned! 19 Let him be destroyed. How he calculated! 20 and then he looks [around for new arguments,] 21 Then he frowned and he looked in a bad tempered way; 22 Then turned his back and waxed proud, 23 Then he said: This is naught but enchantment, narrated (from others); 24 Naught is this but the word of Man. 25 Anon shall I roast him into the Scorching Fire. 26 And what do you know what Hell is? 27 It leaves and spares no one and nothing. 28 It scorches the mortal. 29 Over it are nineteen [powers]. 30 We have not appointed any one but angels as keepers of Hell, and their number that We have fixed is to make it a means of contention for disbelievers, so that those who were given the Book may be certain, and the faith of the believers may have greater increase, and the people of the Book and believers may not be deceived, and the sceptics and infidels may say: "What does God mean by this parable?" That is how God leads whosoever He will astray, and guides whosoever He will. None knows the armies of your Lord save Him self. This is no more than reminder for mankind. 31