The Hidden Secret (Al-Muddath-thir)
In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful
O you (Muhammad SAW) enveloped (in garments)! 1 Rise up and warn! 2 And your Lord (Allah) magnify! 3 and purify your robes, 4 And banish all trepidation. 5 and bestow not favour in order to seek from others a greater return, 6 be patient unto your Lord. 7 And when the trumpet is blown, 8 Truly, that Day will be a Hard Day. 9 Not of ease, for disbelievers. 10 Leave Me alone with he whom I created 11 And then bestowed upon him ample means, 12 and sons standing before him, 13 And made several preparations for him. 14 yet he is eager that I increase him. 15 Never. He is refractory of Our signs. 16 We shall make him suffer the torment of hell without relief. 17 For he thought and he plotted;- 18 So accursed be he, how evilly did he decide! 19 Let him be destroyed. How he calculated! 20 He looked (at others); 21 frowned and scowled; 22 Then turned his back and waxed proud, 23 And said: "This is nothing but the magic of old, 24 Nothing more than the speech of a man!" 25 [Hence,] I shall cause him to endure hell-fire [in the life to come]! 26 And what do you know what Hell is? 27 It leaves and spares no one and nothing. 28 Darkening and changing the colour of man! 29 Over it are nineteen [angels]. 30 And We have set none but angels as guardians of the Fire, and We have fixed their number (19) only as a trial for the disbelievers, in order that the people of the Scripture (Jews and Christians) may arrive at a certainty [that this Quran is the truth as it agrees with their Books i.e. their number (19) is written in the Taurat (Torah) and the Injeel (Gospel)] and the believers may increase in Faith (as this Quran is the truth) and that no doubts may be left for the people of the Scripture and the believers, and that those in whose hearts is a disease (of hypocrisy) and the disbelievers may say: "What Allah intends by this (curious) example?" Thus Allah leads astray whom He wills and guides whom He wills. And none can know the hosts of your Lord but He. And this (Hell) is nothing else than a (warning) reminder to mankind. 31