The Hidden Secret (Al-Muddath-thir)
In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful
Cloaked one, 1 Arise and warn, 2 And your Lord glorify 3 and purify your clothing, 4 and flee from the statues! 5 And do not favour others in order to receive more. 6 And for the sake of your Lord, patiently endure. 7 When the trumpet is sounded,. 8 That will be- that Day - a Day of Distress,- 9 It will not be easy for those who deny the truth. 10 Leave him to Me whom I created alone, 11 And then bestowed upon him ample means, 12 And sons dwelling in his presence, 13 and to whose life I gave so wide a scope: 14 then he is eager that I should do more. 15 Nay! He is forward unto Our signs; 16 [and so] I shall constrain him to endure a painful uphill climb! 17 Indeed he thought, and inwardly decided. 18 So may he be destroyed [for] how he deliberated. 19 Again, death seize him, how he determined! 20 May he be condemned again for his schemes! He looked around, 21 Then frowned and grimaced. 22 Then turned his back and waxed proud, 23 and says, "All this is mere spellbinding eloquence handed down [from olden times]! 24 'this is nothing but mortal speech.' 25 I will soon fling him into hell. 26 And what knoweth thou that which the Scorching Fire? 27 Naught doth it permit to endure, and naught doth it leave alone!- 28 Burning the skins! 29 Over it are nineteen (angels as guardians and keepers of Hell). 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