المسد
The Palm Fiber
Explanations are simplified from tafsirs by Ibn Kathir, Mufti Muhammad Shafi, and Maulana Wahiduddin Khan. Spot an inaccuracy? Let us know.
بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ
tabbat yadā abī lahabin watabba
May the hands of Abū Lahab be ruined, and ruined is he.
mā aghnā ʿanhu māluhu wamā kasaba
His wealth will not avail him or that which he gained.
sayaṣlā nāran dhāta lahabin
He will [enter to] burn in a Fire of [blazing] flame
wa-im'ra-atuhu ḥammālata l-ḥaṭabi
And his wife [as well] - the carrier of firewood.
fī jīdihā ḥablun min masadin
Around her neck is a rope of [twisted] fiber.