The Hidden Secret (Al-Muddath-thir)
In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate
O thou shrouded in thy mantle, 1 Arise and warn! 2 And thy Sustainer's greatness glorify! 3 And keep your clothes clean. 4 And uncleanliness avoid 5 And give not a thing in order to have more (or consider not your deeds of Allah's obedience as a favour to Allah). 6 but unto thy Sustainer turn in patience. 7 When the Horn is blown, 8 So that is a tough day. 9 Far from easy for those without Faith. 10 Leave Me with him whom I created alone, 11 whom I have endowed with abundant riches, 12 And children to be by his side! 13 And I adjusted affairs for him adjustably; 14 and who still desires more. 15 Never! For he is an enemy to Our signs! 16 Anon I shall afflict him with a fearful woe. 17 For lo! he did consider; then he planned - 18 Perish he! How maliciously he devised! 19 Yea, Woe to him; How he plotted!- 20 Then looked he, 21 And frowned and puckered his brow, 22 then turned back, and swelling-up with pride, 23 And said: "This is nothing but the magic of old, 24 Nothing more than the speech of a man!" 25 I will surely roast him in the Scorching. 26 And what knoweth thou that which the Scorching Fire? 27 It neither spares, nor releases, 28 It scorches the mortal. 29 Over it are nineteen. 30 We have appointed none but angels as the keepers of the Fire, and We have not made their number but as a trial for the unbelievers so that those who have been endowed with the Book will be convinced and the believers' faith will increase, and neither those who have been endowed with the Book nor the believers will fall into any doubt. As for those in whose hearts there is a sickness as well as the unbelievers, they will say: “What did Allah aim at by this strange parable?” Thus does Allah let whomsoever He pleases to go astray, and directs whomsoever He pleases to the Right Way. And none knows the hosts of your Lord but He. (And Hell has only been mentioned here) that people may take heed. 31