The Hidden Secret (Al-Muddath-thir)
In the name of Allah, most benevolent, ever-merciful
O THOU [in thy solitude] enfolded! 1 Arise and deliver thy warning! 2 Glorify your Lord, 3 and purify your clothing, 4 And uncleanness do shun, 5 And do not through giving seek thyself to gain, 6 Exercise patience to please your Lord. 7 And when the trumpet is blown, 8 that very Day shall be a day of anguish, 9 Far from easy for those without Faith. 10 Leave him to Me whom I created alone, 11 and appointed for him ample wealth 12 and sons to be by his side, 13 I made things smooth and easy for him, 14 then he is eager that I should do more. 15 By no means! surely he offers opposition to Our communications. 16 We shall make him suffer the torment of hell without relief. 17 Verily he considered, and devised. 18 Ruin seize him, how did he hatch a scheme? 19 yea, he destroys himself, the way he meditates! 20 Then he looked around, 21 Then frowned he and scowled. 22 and he turned his back and behaved arrogantly 23 and said, "This is nothing but sorcery from the ancients. 24 This is nothing but the word of mortal man!" 25 Him shall I fling unto the burning. 26 And what knoweth thou that which the Scorching Fire? 27 Naught doth it permit to endure, and naught doth it leave alone!- 28 it scorches (even) the skin. 29 there are nineteen [angels] in charge of it -- 30 We have not appointed any one but angels as keepers of Hell, and their number that We have fixed is to make it a means of contention for disbelievers, so that those who were given the Book may be certain, and the faith of the believers may have greater increase, and the people of the Book and believers may not be deceived, and the sceptics and infidels may say: "What does God mean by this parable?" That is how God leads whosoever He will astray, and guides whosoever He will. None knows the armies of your Lord save Him self. This is no more than reminder for mankind. 31