Zugrunde gehen sollen die Hände Abu Lahabs, und zugrunde gehen soll er (selbst)!
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. The power of Abu Lahab will perish, and he will perish.
Perish the hands of the Father of Flame! Perish he!
Chapter 111, 5 verses
Zugrunde gehen sollen die Hände Abu Lahabs, und zugrunde gehen soll er (selbst)!
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. The power of Abu Lahab will perish, and he will perish.
Perish the hands of the Father of Flame! Perish he!
Was nützt ihm sein Besitz und das, was er erworben hat?
His wealth and gains will not exempt him.
No profit to him from all his wealth, and all his gains!
Er wird einem Feuer voller Flammen ausgesetzt sein
He will be plunged in flaming Fire,
Burnt soon will he be in a Fire of Blazing Flame!
und (auch) seine Frau, die Brennholzträgerin.
And his wife, the wood - carrier,
His wife shall carry the (crackling) wood - As fuel! -
Um ihrem Hals ist ein Strick aus Palmfasern.
Will have upon her neck a halter of palm - fibre.
A twisted rope of palm - leaf fibre round her (own) neck!