| malik | |
|---|---|
| 1. * | Perish the hands of Abu Lahab! And perish he![1] |
| 2. * | His wealth and whatever he earned did not avail him anything.[2] |
| 3. * | Soon he shall be burnt in a flaming fire (a pun on the meaning of Abu Lahab, "father of flames"),[3] |
| 4. * | and his wife, the carrier of crackling fire wood,[4] |
| 5. * | shall have a rope of palm-leaf fibre around her neck.[5] |