Translations of the Qur'an, Chapter 111:

AL-MASADD (PALM FIBRE, THE FLAME)

Total Verses: 5

Revealed At: MAKKA

Maududi's introduction

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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.

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