The Hidden Secret (Al-Muddath-thir)
In the name of Allah, most benevolent, ever-merciful
O thou shrouded in thy mantle, 1 Rise up and warn! 2 Thy Lord magnify, 3 cleanse your clothes, 4 and flee from the statues! 5 And bestow not favour that thou mayest receive more. 6 For the sake of thy Lord, be patient! 7 When the trumpet is sounded,. 8 That Day will be a difficult day 9 and for the disbelievers, in particular, it will not be at all easy. 10 Leave Me alone [to deal] with him whom I have created alone, 11 and to whom I have granted resources in abundance, 12 and children living in his presence, 13 and whom I have provided with every resource, 14 Yet is he greedy-that I should add (yet more);- 15 By no means; he is stubbornly opposed to Our Signs. 16 I shall inflict on him hardship, 17 For lo! he did consider; then he planned - 18 Ruin seize him, how did he hatch a scheme? 19 Then may he be destroyed [for] how he deliberated. 20 Then he beheld, 21 Then he frowned and he looked in a bad tempered way; 22 Then he turned back and was haughty; 23 And said: "This is nothing but the magic of old, 24 These are only words from a mere mortal". 25 I will soon fling him into hell. 26 What do you think Hell-fire is? 27 It lets nothing remain and leaves nothing [unburned], 28 Blackening the skins. 29 and it has nineteen angelic keepers. 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