The Hidden Secret (Al-Muddath-thir)
In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful
O thou shrouded in thy mantle, 1 Arise and warn, 2 And thine Lord magnify! 3 And your clothing purify 4 and flee from the statues! 5 And do not favour others in order to receive more. 6 but unto thy Sustainer turn in patience. 7 Then when the horn shall be blown, 8 that will surely be a hard day, 9 and it will not be easy for the unbelievers. 10 Leave Me with him whom I created alone, 11 and appointed for him ample wealth 12 And gave him sons present before him. 13 and to whose life I gave so wide a scope: 14 then he is eager that I should do more. 15 By no means! Verily he hath been unto Our signs a foe. 16 and I shall constrain him to a hard ascent. 17 For lo! he did consider; then he planned - 18 and woe to him; how he plotted! 19 And again perish he! How maliciously he devised! 20 Then he considered [again]; 21 Then he frowned and scowled, 22 Then he turned back and was big with pride, 23 Then he said: This is naught but enchantment, narrated (from others); 24 'this is nothing but mortal speech.' 25 Him shall I fling unto the burning. 26 And what have you understood, what hell is! 27 It shall not spare, nor leave. 28 It scorches the mortal. 29 Over it are nineteen (guards). 30 And We have set none but angels as guardians of the Fire, and We have fixed their number (19) only as a trial for the disbelievers, in order that the people of the Scripture (Jews and Christians) may arrive at a certainty [that this Quran is the truth as it agrees with their Books i.e. their number (19) is written in the Taurat (Torah) and the Injeel (Gospel)] and the believers may increase in Faith (as this Quran is the truth) and that no doubts may be left for the people of the Scripture and the believers, and that those in whose hearts is a disease (of hypocrisy) and the disbelievers may say: "What Allah intends by this (curious) example?" Thus Allah leads astray whom He wills and guides whom He wills. And none can know the hosts of your Lord but He. And this (Hell) is nothing else than a (warning) reminder to mankind. 31