Chapter 111: The Flame

AL-MASADD (PALM FIBRE, THE FLAME)
Total Verses: 5
Revealed At: MAKKA

In the name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful.

111.001 Y: Perish the hands of the Father of Flame! Perish he!

P: The power of Abu Lahab will perish, and he will perish.

S: Perdition overtake both hands of Abu Lahab, and he will perish.

111.002 Y: No profit to him from all his wealth, and all his gains!

P: His wealth and gains will not exempt him.

S: His wealth and what he earns will not avail him.

111.003 Y: Burnt soon will he be in a Fire of Blazing Flame!

P: He will be plunged in flaming Fire,

S: He shall soon burn in fire that flames,

111.004 Y: His wife shall carry the (crackling) wood - As fuel!-

P: And his wife, the wood-carrier,

S: And his wife, the bearer of fuel,

111.005 Y: A twisted rope of palm-leaf fibre round her (own) neck!

P: Will have upon her neck a halter of palm-fibre.

S: Upon her neck a halter of strongly twisted rope.