The Hidden Secret (Al-Muddath-thir)
In the name of Allah, most benevolent, ever-merciful
O the Cloaked One! (Prophet Mohammed – peace and blessings be upon him) 1 Arise and warn 2 proclaim the greatness of your Lord, 3 and purify your robes, 4 And uncleanness do shun, 5 And bestow not favour that thou mayest receive more. 6 And persevere in the way of your Lord. 7 For when the trumpet is sounded, 8 that very Day shall be a day of anguish, 9 For the infidels, not easy. 10 Leave him to Me, the one whom I created single. 11 and to whom I have granted resources vast, 12 And gave him sons present before him. 13 And made (life) smooth for him. 14 Yet he wants that I should give him more. 15 By no means! For to Our Signs he has been refractory! 16 I shall soon constrain him to a hard ascent. 17 He planned and plotted. 18 death seized him, how was his determining! 19 And once more let him be cursed, how he plotted! 20 He looked (at others); 21 Then he frowned and he looked in a bad tempered way; 22 then he retreated, and waxed proud. 23 Then said he: "This is nothing but magic, derived from of old; 24 This is nothing but the word of mortal man!" 25 Him shall I soon roast in Hell. 26 and what will teach thee what is Sakar? 27 It spares not (any sinner), nor does it leave (anything unburnt)! 28 It glows and burns the skin. 29 Over it are nineteen [angels]. 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