The Hidden Secret (Al-Muddath-thir)
In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate
O, you, wrapped in your cloak, 1 Arise and warn, 2 Thy Lord magnify, 3 purify your garments; 4 and defilement flee! 5 And give not a thing in order to have more (or consider not your deeds of Allah's obedience as a favour to Allah). 6 Exercise patience to please your Lord. 7 For when the Trump is sounded 8 that will surely be a hard day, 9 and it will not be easy for the unbelievers. 10 LEAVE Me alone [to deal] with him whom I have created alone, 11 And for whom I appointed wealth extended. 12 And gave him sons present before him. 13 And I adjusted affairs for him adjustably; 14 And who yet coveteth that shall increase. 15 Nay! He is forward unto Our signs; 16 I shall inflict on him hardship, 17 Lo! He reflected, and determined -- 18 and woe to him; how he plotted! 19 May be then be accursed, how he plotted! 20 Then he looked, 21 Then he frowned and he scowled; 22 Then he turned back and was proud; 23 said, "This (the Quran) is nothing but magic, inherited from ancient magicians. 24 It is nothing but the word of a mortal' 25 I shall make him suffer the torment of hell. 26 and what will teach thee what is Sakar? 27 It neither leaves, nor spares. 28 It shrivelleth the man. 29 Above it are nineteen. 30 We have appointed none but angels as the keepers of the Fire, and We have not made their number but as a trial for the unbelievers so that those who have been endowed with the Book will be convinced and the believers' faith will increase, and neither those who have been endowed with the Book nor the believers will fall into any doubt. As for those in whose hearts there is a sickness as well as the unbelievers, they will say: “What did Allah aim at by this strange parable?” Thus does Allah let whomsoever He pleases to go astray, and directs whomsoever He pleases to the Right Way. And none knows the hosts of your Lord but He. (And Hell has only been mentioned here) that people may take heed. 31