Thorns · al-Masad · سورة المسد · 5 ayahs

بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ

In the name of God, The Most Gracious, The Dispenser of Grace:

تَبَّتْ يَدَا أَبِي لَهَبٍ وَتَبَّ

DOOMED are the hands of him of the glowing countence: and doomed is he!

مَا أَغْنَىٰ عَنْهُ مَالُهُ وَمَا كَسَبَ

What will his wealth avail him, and all that he has gained?

سَيَصْلَىٰ نَارًا ذَاتَ لَهَبٍ

[In the life to come] he shall have to endure a fire fiercely glowing;

وَامْرَأَتُهُ حَمَّالَةَ الْحَطَبِ

together with his wife, that carrier of evil tales,

فِي جِيدِهَا حَبْلٌ مِنْ مَسَدٍ

[who bears] around her neck a rope of twisted strands!