The Hidden Secret (Al-Muddath-thir)
In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate
O YOU ENFOLDED in your mantle (of reform), 1 Arise, and warn, 2 And thine Lord magnify! 3 thy robes purify 4 stay away from sins 5 and bestow not favour in order to seek from others a greater return, 6 And persevere in the way of your Lord. 7 For when the trumpet is sounded, 8 It will be a day of distress, 9 For the disbelievers - not easy. 10 Leave Me with him whom I alone have created, 11 To whom I granted resources in abundance, 12 and children as [love's] witnesses, 13 And made life smooth and comfortable for him! 14 Yet he desires that I should give more. 15 Not at all! Surely, he has been disobedient to Our verses. 16 I will cover him with arduous torment. 17 Indeed, he thought and deliberated. 18 death seize him, how he determined! 19 Again, death seized him, how was his determining! 20 Then he looked, 21 frowned and scowled; 22 and he turned his back and behaved arrogantly 23 and said: 'This is no more than traced sorcery; 24 These are only words from a mere mortal". 25 Anon shall I roast him into the Scorching Fire. 26 And what will make you realize what hell is? 27 It leaves and spares no one and nothing. 28 and it burns the flesh. 29 Over it are nineteen keepers. 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