The Hidden Secret (Al-Muddath-thir)
In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful
O thou shrouded in thy mantle, 1 Arise and warn, 2 Glorify your Lord, 3 And thine raiment purify. 4 And all abomination shun! 5 And do not through giving seek thyself to gain, 6 and for the sake of your Lord, be patient. 7 For when the Trump is sounded 8 Truly, that Day will be a Hard Day. 9 not of ease, for all who [now] deny the truth! 10 Leave Me with him whom I created alone, 11 And then granted him resources in abundance. 12 And sons to be by his side!- 13 And spread [everything] before him, easing [his life]. 14 Yet he wants that I should give him more. 15 Not at all! Surely, he has been disobedient to Our verses. 16 I will constrain him to a hard ascent. 17 Indeed, he thought and deliberated. 18 and woe to him; how he plotted! 19 May be then be accursed, how he plotted! 20 Then he looked, 21 Then he frowned and scowled; 22 Then turned he away in pride 23 And said, “This is nothing but magic learnt from earlier men.” 24 It is nothing but the word of a mortal' 25 Him shall I fling unto the burning. 26 - Ah, what will convey unto thee what that burning is! - 27 It shall not spare, nor leave. 28 scorching the flesh; 29 there are nineteen [angels] in charge of it -- 30 And We have appointed none but the angels to be wardens of the Fire. And their number we have made only a trial for those who disbelieve, so that those who are vouchsafed the Book may be convinced, and that those who believe may increase in faith, and that those who are vouchsafed the Book and the believers may not doubt, and that those in whose hearts is a disease and the infidels may say: what meaneth Allah by this description! In this wise Allah sendeth astray whomsoever He will, and guideth whomsoever He will. And none knoweth the hosts of thy Lord but He. And it is naught but an admonition unto man. 31