AL-MASADD (PALM FIBRE, THE FLAME)
Total Verses: 5
Revealed At: MAKKA
In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful.
111.001
YUSUFALI: Perish the hands of the Father of
Flame! Perish he!
PICKTHAL: The power of Abu Lahab will
perish, and he will perish.
SHAKIR: Perdition overtake both hands of
Abu Lahab, and he will perish.
111.002
YUSUFALI: No profit to him from all his
wealth, and all his gains!
PICKTHAL: His wealth and gains will not
exempt him.
SHAKIR: His wealth and what he earns will
not avail him.
111.003
YUSUFALI: Burnt soon will he be in a Fire
of Blazing Flame!
PICKTHAL: He will be plunged in flaming
Fire,
SHAKIR: He shall soon burn in fire that
flames,
111.004
YUSUFALI: His wife shall carry the
(crackling) wood - As fuel!-
PICKTHAL: And his wife, the wood-carrier,
SHAKIR: And his wife, the bearer of fuel,
111.005
YUSUFALI: A twisted rope of palm-leaf fibre
round her (own) neck!
PICKTHAL: Will have upon her neck a halter
of palm-fibre.
SHAKIR: Upon her neck a halter of strongly
twisted rope.