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