The Hidden Secret (Al-Muddath-thir)
In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate
O you (Prophet Muhamad), the cloaked, 1 arise and warn, 2 And your Lord (Allah) magnify! 3 purify your garments; 4 Pollution shun! 5 And show not favour, seeking wordly gain! 6 and for the sake of your Lord, be patient. 7 Then when the horn shall be blown, 8 That shall be - that Day - a day hard. 9 It will not be easy for those who deny the truth. 10 Leave Me and him whom I created alone, 11 and appointed for him ample wealth 12 and children living in his presence, 13 And made things easy for them. 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 oblige him to (climb a slippery mountain in the Hell-fire called As-Sa'ud, or to) face a severe torment! 17 For he had thought and calculated. 18 death seized him, how was his determining! 19 May be then be accursed, how he plotted! 20 and then he looks [around for new arguments,] 21 frowned and scowled; 22 Then he turned away, and was haughty. 23 And said, “This is nothing but magic learnt from earlier men.” 24 This is not but the word of a human being." 25 Soon I will cast him into hell. 26 What do you think Hell-fire is? 27 It leaveth naught; it spareth naught 28 Blackening the skins. 29 over 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