بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم تبت يدا أبي لهب وتب
Perdition overtake both hands of Abu Lahab, and he will perish.
In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Perish the two hands of Abu Lahab (an uncle of the Prophet) and perish he!
Chapter 111, 5 verses
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم تبت يدا أبي لهب وتب
Perdition overtake both hands of Abu Lahab, and he will perish.
In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Perish the two hands of Abu Lahab (an uncle of the Prophet) and perish he!
ما أغنى عنه ماله وما كسب
His wealth and what he earns will not avail him.
His wealth and his children will not benefit him!
سيصلى نارا ذات لهب
He shall soon burn in fire that flames,
He will be burnt in a Fire of blazing flames!
وامرأته حمالة الحطب
And his wife, the bearer of fuel,
And his wife, too, who carries wood (thorns of Sa'dan which she used to put on the way of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم, or use to slander him).
في جيدها حبل من مسد
Upon her neck a halter of strongly twisted rope.
In her neck is a twisted rope of Masad (palm fibre).