Thorns (Al-Masad)
In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful
Destroyed were the hands of Abu Lahab, and he lay utterly doomed. 1 What will his wealth avail him, and all that he has gained? 2 Burnt soon will he be in a Fire of Blazing Flame! 3 and his wife, laden with firewood 4 In her neck is a twisted rope of Masad (palm fibre). 5