Zugrunde gehen sollen die Hände Abu Lahabs, und zugrunde gehen soll er (selbst)!
Perish the hands of the Father of Flame! Perish he!
May the hands of Abu Lahab be ruined, and ruined is he.
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!
May the hands of Abu Lahab be ruined, and ruined is he.
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 will not avail him or that which he gained.
Er wird einem Feuer voller Flammen ausgesetzt sein
Burnt soon will he be in a Fire of Blazing Flame!
He will [enter to] burn in a Fire of [blazing] flame
und (auch) seine Frau, die Brennholzträgerin.
His wife shall carry the (crackling) wood - As fuel! -
And his wife [as well] - the carrier of firewood.
Um ihrem Hals ist ein Strick aus Palmfasern.
A twisted rope of palm - leaf fibre round her (own) neck!
Around her neck is a rope of [twisted] fiber.