The Hidden Secret (Al-Muddath-thir)
Allah - beginning with the name of - the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
O thou shrouded in thy mantle, 1 arise, and warn! 2 And proclaim the Purity of your Lord. 3 and purify your clothing, 4 And stay away from idols. 5 And do not favour others in order to receive more. 6 and persevere for your Lord's sake. 7 Finally, when the Trumpet is sounded, 8 that very Day shall be a day of anguish, 9 not of ease, for all who [now] deny the truth! 10 LEAVE Me alone [to deal] with him whom I have created alone, 11 and to whom I have granted resources vast, 12 and sons standing before him, 13 To whom I made (life) smooth and comfortable! 14 Yet he desires that I should give more. 15 Never will he receive more. He has been hostile to Our revelations. 16 I shall inflict on him hardship, 17 Indeed, he thought and deliberated. 18 So let him be cursed! How he plotted! 19 yea, he destroys himself, the way he meditates! 20 Then looked he, 21 and then he frowns and glares, 22 and in the end he turns his back [on Our message,] and glories in his arrogance, 23 and said: “This (Qur'an) is merely a sorcery of yore; 24 This is naught else than speech of mortal man. 25 I will drive him into Saqar. 26 What do you think Hell-fire is? 27 It leaveth naught; it spareth naught 28 it scorches (even) the skin. 29 over it are nineteen. 30 We have not appointed the guards of hell, except angels; and did not keep this number except to test the disbelievers – in order that the People given the Book(s) may be convinced, and to increase the faith of the believers – and so that the People given the Book(s) and the Muslims may not have any doubt – and so that those in whose hearts is a disease and the disbelievers, may say, “What does Allah mean by this amazing example?” This is how Allah sends astray whomever He wills, and guides whomever He wills; and no one knows the armies of Allah except Him; and this is not but an advice to man. 31