The Hidden Secret (Al-Muddath-thir)
In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
O you who are clothed! 1 Arise and warn! 2 Thy Lord magnify 3 And your garments do purify, 4 And all defilement shun! 5 And show not favour, seeking wordly gain! 6 And for the good-will of thy Lord be thou patient. 7 So when the Trumpet will be blown. 8 that Day will be a hard and distressing Day. 9 Far from easy for the disbelievers. 10 LEAVE Me alone [to deal] with him whom I have created alone, 11 And gave him vast wealth. 12 And children to be by his side! 13 and whom I have provided with every resource, 14 Yet he desires that I should give more. 15 By no means; he is stubbornly opposed to Our Signs. 16 Soon I shall mount him on Saood, the hill of fire. 17 He reflected, and then determined 18 So may he be destroyed [for] how he deliberated. 19 Again, ruin seize him, how did he hatch a scheme? 20 Then he beheld, 21 Then he frowned and he looked in a bad tempered way; 22 then turned back, and swelling-up with pride, 23 said, "This (the Quran) is nothing but magic, inherited from ancient magicians. 24 This is nothing but the word of a mortal!" 25 I will drive him into Saqar. 26 And what will explain to thee what Hell-Fire is? 27 It spares not, neither leaves alone 28 and it burns the flesh. 29 Over it are nineteen (angels guarding). 30 We have appointed only angels to be wardens of the Fire. We have specified their number only as a trial for those who are bent on denying the truth, so that those who were given the Book might gain in certainty, and those who believe might increase in faith -- and so that neither those who have been given the Scripture nor the believers might have any doubts, and that those sick at heart and those who deny the truth might ask, "What does God mean by this parable?" In this way, God lets go astray whom He wills, and guides whom He wills. And none knows the forces of your Lord but He. This is but a Reminder for man. 31