1. Abu Lahab, may your hands perish
and may they perish too - those hands that carry the firewood.

2. You abandoned the best Prophet to tread the stones.
So you are like one who sells well-being for misfortune.

3. You feared Abu Jahl and so became his follower,
just as the tail follows the head.

4. So that matter became a disgrace that covers you,
as pilgrims of the House heap reproaches upon you during the season of pilgrimage of the Arabs.

5. And if Muhammad had been from some other enemy
I would have defended him with spears and staffs.

6. And they would not have surrendered him, nor gathered humbly around him,
men of trials, hardened in wars, of noble lineage.