The Hidden Secret (Al-Muddath-thir)
In the name of Allah, most benevolent, ever-merciful
O YOU ENFOLDED in your mantle (of reform), 1 Arise, and warn. 2 Proclaim the glory of your Lord; 3 and purify your robes, 4 And all abomination shun! 5 Give not, thinking to gain greater 6 and for the sake of your Lord, be patient. 7 Then when the horn shall be blown, 8 it will be a hard day 9 for the unbelievers not easy. 10 Leave to Me the one, whom I have created all by Myself, 11 And give him vast riches, 12 And sons dwelling in his presence, 13 and made all things smooth for him; 14 Yet he desires that I should give more. 15 Not at all! Surely, he has been disobedient to Our verses. 16 On him I shall impose a fearful doom. 17 Surely he reflected and guessed, 18 and thus he destroys himself, the way he meditates: 19 What an evil plan he has made! 20 He looked (at others); 21 then he frowned and scowled, 22 and in the end he turns his back [on Our message,] and glories in his arrogance, 23 Then he said: "This is nothing but magic from that of old; 24 This is not but the word of a human being." 25 I shall surely roast him in Sakar; 26 What do you think Hell-fire is? 27 It shall not spare, nor leave. 28 Blackening the skins. 29 Over it are Nineteen. 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