The Hidden Secret (Al-Muddath-thir)
Allah - beginning with the name of - the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
O you who are clothed! 1 Arise and warn! 2 And your Lord (Allah) magnify! 3 And thine raiment purify. 4 and shun uncleanness, 5 Do not give, thinking to gain greater 6 But, for thy Lord's (Cause), be patient and constant! 7 For when the trumpet shall sound, 8 Surely that day will be a day of anguish, 9 not of ease, for all who [now] deny the truth! 10 Leave Me alone, (to deal) with the (creature) whom I created (bare and) alone!- 11 And give him vast riches, 12 And sons dwelling in his presence, 13 and to whose life I gave so wide a scope: 14 And yet he desires that I should add more! 15 By no means! surely he offers opposition to Our communications. 16 On him I shall impose a fearful doom. 17 Verily, he thought and plotted; 18 May he be condemned! 19 Then may he be destroyed [for] how he deliberated. 20 Then looked he, 21 and then he frowns and glares, 22 then turned back, and swelling-up with pride, 23 Then he said: "This is nothing but magic from that of old; 24 Naught is this but the word of Man. 25 Him shall I soon roast in Hell. 26 And what knoweth thou that which the Scorching Fire? 27 It does not allow anyone to live, and neither does it leave anyone to die; 28 Scorching the skin. 29 Above 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