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Creator Verses

Surah 111

Al-Masad

The Palm Fiber

5 verses · Makkan · revealed 6th

المسد

بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ

تَبَّتْ يَدَآ أَبِى لَهَبٍ وَتَبَّ

Tabbat yada abee lahabin watab

May the hands of Abū Lahab be ruined, and ruined is he.

Perish the two hands of Abū Lahab, and perish he!

مَآ أَغْنَىٰ عَنْهُ مَالُهُۥ وَمَا كَسَبَ

Ma aghna AAanhu maluhuwama kasab

His wealth will not avail him or that which he gained.

Neither his wealth benefited him, nor what he earned.

سَيَصْلَىٰ نَارًا ذَاتَ لَهَبٍ

Sayasla naran thatalahab

He will [enter to] burn in a Fire of [blazing] flame

He will soon enter a Fire, full of flames,

وَٱمْرَأَتُهُۥ حَمَّالَةَ ٱلْحَطَبِ

Wamraatuhu hammalata alhatab

And his wife [as well] - the carrier of firewood.

and his wife as well,-the wicked carrier of firewood.

فِى جِيدِهَا حَبْلٌ مِّن مَّسَدٍۭ

Fee jeediha hablun min masad

Around her neck is a rope of [twisted] fiber.

Around her neck, there is (a collar of iron, like) a well-twisted rope.