Al-Masad

Al-Mukhtasar

Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary

1. Both hands of the uncle of the Prophet (peace be upon him): Abū Lahab son of ‘Abdul Muṭṭalib have lost because of the loss of his actions; he used to harm the Prophet (peace be upon him). His efforts are in vain.

Tafsir al-Jalalayn

al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE

, ‘May you perish! Is that what you have called us out for?’, whereupon the following was revealed: [111:1] Perish, ruined be, the hands of Abu Lahab, in other words, all of him — the use of ‘hands’ here to denote [all of] him is figurative, and is because moSt adtions are performed by them; the State¬ ment is an invocation — and perish he!, may he be ruined! (this [tabba] is a predicate, as where one says, ahlakahu’Llahu wa-qad halak, ‘God destroyed him and he indeed is destroyed’.…

Al-Mukhtasar

Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary

2. How much can his wealth and his children benefit him? They cannot defend him against the punishment, nor bring any mercy to him.

Tafsir al-Jalalayn

al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE

rue, then I shall ransom [myself] from it with my wealth and sons!’; so the following was revealed: [111:2] His wealth will not avail him, nor what he has earned ( wa-kasab means wa-kasbihi, that is to say, his sons; ma aghnd means [ ma ] yughni). [111:3] He will [soon] enter a Fire of flames, that is to say, [a fire that is] flaming and ignited (this [State¬ ment] is the source of his nickname, [which was given to him] on account of his flaming reddish fair face),

Al-Mukhtasar

Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary

3. On the Day of Judgement, he will soon enter the flaring hellfire and suffer its heat.

Tafsir al-Jalalayn

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Al-Mukhtasar

Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary

4. And his wife Umm Jamīl who would also harm the Prophet (peace be upon him) by throwing thorns into his path, will also enter it.

Tafsir al-Jalalayn

al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE

the source of his nickname, [which was given to him] on account of his flaming reddish fair face), [111:4] an d his wife ( wa’mra’atuhu is a supplement to the person [of the verb] yasld, ‘he will enter’, sepa¬ rated by the clause of the direcft objed and its qualification) — and this was Umm Jamil — the carrier (read hammalatu or hammalata) of firewood, cacftus and thorns which she used to fling into the path of the Prophet (s). [111:5] with a rope of palm-fibre around her neck (fi jidiha hablun min masadin is a circumstantial qualifier referring to hammalata’l-hatab, which in turn is [e…

Al-Mukhtasar

Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary

5. Around her neck will be tightly bound a rope with which she will be dragged into the hellfire.

Tafsir al-Jalalayn

al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE

cacftus and thorns which she used to fling into the path of the Prophet (s). [111:5] with a rope of palm-fibre around her neck (fi jidiha hablun min masadin is a circumstantial qualifier referring to hammalata’l-hatab, which in turn is [either] a description of imra’atahu, ‘his wife’, or the predicate of an implied subjed). Meccan or Medinese, consisting of 4 or 5 verses. In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful: The Prophet (s) was asked about his Lord and the following was revealed: [112:1] Say: ‘He is God, One (Allahu is the predicate of huwa, ‘He is’, and ahadun is its sub…