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إِلَّا عَلَىٰٓ أَزْوَٰجِهِمْ أَوْ مَا مَلَكَتْ أَيْمَـٰنُهُمْ فَإِنَّهُمْ غَيْرُ مَلُومِينَ

from all but their spouses or their slave-girls––there is no blame attached to [relations with] these,

وَأَنَّهُۥ تَعَـٰلَىٰ جَدُّ رَبِّنَا مَا ٱتَّخَذَ صَـٰحِبَةً وَلَا وَلَدًا

and that He––exalted be the glory of our Lord!––has neither spouse nor child.

فَإِذَا جَآءَتِ ٱلصَّآخَّةُ

When the Deafening Blast comes––

يَوْمَ يَفِرُّ ٱلْمَرْءُ مِنْ أَخِيهِ

the Day man will flee from his own brother,

وَأُمِّهِۦ وَأَبِيهِ

his mother, his father,

وَصَـٰحِبَتِهِۦ وَبَنِيهِ

his wife, his children:

لِكُلِّ ٱمْرِئٍ مِّنْهُمْ يَوْمَئِذٍ شَأْنٌ يُغْنِيهِ

each of them will be absorbed in concerns of their own on that Day-

تَبَّتْ يَدَآ أَبِى لَهَبٍ وَتَبَّ

May the hands of Abu Lahab be ruined! May he be ruined too!

مَآ أَغْنَىٰ عَنْهُ مَالُهُۥ وَمَا كَسَبَ

Neither his wealth nor his gains will help him:

سَيَصْلَىٰ نَارًا ذَاتَ لَهَبٍ

he will burn in the Flaming Fire––

وَٱمْرَأَتُهُۥ حَمَّالَةَ ٱلْحَطَبِ

and so will his wife, the firewood-carrier,

فِى جِيدِهَا حَبْلٌ مِّن مَّسَدٍۭ

with a palm-fibre rope around her neck.