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 your clothing purify 4 And pollution shun. 5 Do not bestow favours in expectation of return, 6 and be patient unto thy Lord. 7 For when the Trump is sounded 8 That shall be - that Day - a day hard. 9 Dolorous for the unbelievers. 10 Leave Me alone [to deal] with him whom I have created alone, 11 whom I have endowed with abundant riches, 12 And sons dwelling in his presence, 13 To whom I made (life) smooth and comfortable! 14 Yet he wants that I should give him more. 15 Nay! He is forward unto Our signs; 16 Soon will I visit him with a mount of calamities! 17 He planned and plotted. 18 Ruin seize him, how did he hatch a scheme? 19 Again accursed be he, how evilly did he decide! 20 He looked (at others); 21 Then he frowned and he looked in a bad tempered way; 22 Then turned he away in pride 23 and said, "This is nothing but sorcery from the ancients. 24 These are only words from a mere mortal". 25 Him shall I fling unto the burning. 26 And what will make you realize what hell is? 27 It lets nothing remain and leaves nothing [unburned], 28 making [all truth] visible to mortal man. 29 Over it are nineteen [angels]. 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