The Hidden Secret (Al-Muddath-thir)
Allah - beginning with the name of - the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
O you enveloped in your cloak! 1 Arise, and warn. 2 Proclaim the glory of your Lord; 3 purify your garments; 4 And all defilement shun! 5 And bestow not favors that you may receive again with increase, 6 But for your Lord be patient. 7 When the trumpet is sounded,. 8 that very Day shall be a day of anguish, 9 It will not be easy for those who deny the truth. 10 LEAVE Me alone [to deal] with him whom I have created alone, 11 And to whom I granted extensive wealth 12 And children to be by his side! 13 whose life I have made run smoothly 14 Then he desires that I should add more. 15 Never will he receive more. He has been hostile to Our revelations. 16 On him I shall impose a fearful doom. 17 For he had thought and calculated. 18 So accursed be he, how evilly did he decide! 19 Again, death seize him, how he determined! 20 May he be condemned again for his schemes! He looked around, 21 Then he frowned and he looked in a bad tempered way; 22 Then turned his back and waxed proud, 23 and said: 'This is no more than traced sorcery; 24 this is nothing but the word of a mere mortal!” 25 Him shall I fling unto the burning. 26 and what will teach thee what is Sakar? 27 It spares not, neither leaves alone 28 Burning the skins! 29 Over it are nineteen (angels guarding). 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