Perish the hands of the Father of Flame! Perish he!
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم تبت يدا أبي لهب وتب
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. The power of Abu Lahab will perish, and he will perish.
Chapter 111, 5 verses
Perish the hands of the Father of Flame! Perish he!
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم تبت يدا أبي لهب وتب
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. The power of Abu Lahab will perish, and he will perish.
No profit to him from all his wealth, and all his gains!
ما أغنى عنه ماله وما كسب
His wealth and gains will not exempt him.
Burnt soon will he be in a Fire of Blazing Flame!
سيصلى نارا ذات لهب
He will be plunged in flaming Fire,
His wife shall carry the (crackling) wood - As fuel! -
وامرأته حمالة الحطب
And his wife, the wood - carrier,
A twisted rope of palm - leaf fibre round her (own) neck!
في جيدها حبل من مسد
Will have upon her neck a halter of palm - fibre.