Al-Masadd

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Surat Al-Masadd (Arabic: سورة المسد ) or Surat Al-Lahab (Arabic: سورة اﻟﻠﻬﺐ ) (The Palm Fibre or The Flame) is the 111th Sura of the Qur'an with 5 ayat. It is a Makkan surah.

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In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.

1. Perish the hands of the Father of Flame! Perish he!

2. No profit to him from all his wealth, and all his gains!

3. Burnt soon will he be in a Fire of Blazing Flame!

4. His wife shall carry the (crackling) wood - As fuel!-

5. A twisted rope of palm-leaf fibre round her (own) neck!

After proclaiming the bismillah, the sura condemns Abu Lahab and his wife as examples of worldly and wealth driven sinners. Although they have much on earth, it will not avail them in the Hereafter. The "firewood" they have carried in this life (symbols of their clutching onto material possessions and business) will, in the Hellfire proves to be the kindling of their damnation. This is to say, in their materialism they have been the architects of their own unfortunate destiny.

The chapter that came in the year 610-14. ^{[citation needed]}

Muslims present that chapter as evidence for the divinity of the Quran, since Abu Lahab could have ruined the Quran and Islam simply by professing Islam outwardly, just like Abu Sufyan did. ^{[citation needed]}

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