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 Thy Lord magnify, 3 and purify your clothing, 4 And uncleanness do shun, 5 and do not think that by doing such deeds, you have done a great favor to God. 6 But, for thy Lord's (Cause), be patient and constant! 7 For when the trumpet is sounded, 8 Surely that day will be a day of anguish, 9 Far from easy for those without Faith. 10 Leave Me with him whom I created alone, 11 whom I have endowed with abundant riches, 12 And sons present by his side. 13 I made things smooth and easy for him, 14 And yet he desires that I should add more! 15 By no means! Verily he hath been unto Our signs a foe. 16 I will make a distressing punishment overtake him. 17 For he thought and he plotted -- 18 So let him be cursed! How he plotted! 19 Again, death seized him, how was his determining! 20 Then he looked round; 21 then he frowned, and scowled, 22 then he retreated and grew proud 23 He said, 'This is naught but a trumped-up sorcery; 24 “This is nothing but the speech of a man.” 25 I will cast him into Hell-fire 26 And what do you know what Hell is? 27 It neither spares, nor releases, 28 it scorches the skin; 29 Over it are nineteen (guards). 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