The Hidden Secret (Al-Muddath-thir)
In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful
O thou shrouded in thy mantle, 1 arise and warn, 2 and magnify the glory of your Lord, 3 Thy raiment purify, 4 And keep away from Ar-Rujz (the idols)! 5 And do not favour others in order to receive more. 6 And persevere in the way of your Lord. 7 Then, when the Trumpet is sounded (i.e. its second blowing); 8 that will surely be a hard day, 9 Far from easy for the disbelievers. 10 Leave Me with him whom I alone have created, 11 and to whom I have granted resources in abundance, 12 and sons to be by his side, 13 whose life I have made run smoothly 14 and who still desires more. 15 Not at all! Surely, he has been disobedient to Our verses. 16 I shall oblige him to (climb a slippery mountain in the Hell-fire called As-Sa'ud, or to) face a severe torment! 17 For he thought and he plotted;- 18 (Self-)destroyed is he, how he planned! 19 Again, death seized him, how was his determining! 20 Then he looked, 21 Then frowned he and showed displeasure. 22 Then turned he away in pride 23 And said, "This is not but magic imitated [from others]. 24 "This is nothing but the word of a human being!" 25 I shall make him suffer the torment of hell. 26 And what could make thee conceive what hell-fire is? 27 It does not allow anyone to live, and neither does it leave anyone to die; 28 It glows and burns the skin. 29 Over it are nineteen. 30 And We have appointed none but the angels to be wardens of the Fire. And their number we have made only a trial for those who disbelieve, so that those who are vouchsafed the Book may be convinced, and that those who believe may increase in faith, and that those who are vouchsafed the Book and the believers may not doubt, and that those in whose hearts is a disease and the infidels may say: what meaneth Allah by this description! In this wise Allah sendeth astray whomsoever He will, and guideth whomsoever He will. And none knoweth the hosts of thy Lord but He. And it is naught but an admonition unto man. 31