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Perish the hands of Abu Lahab! And perish he!
     
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His wealth and whatever he earned did not avail him anything.
     
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Soon he shall be burnt in a flaming fire (a pun on the meaning of    Abu Lahab, "father of flames"),
     
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and his wife, the carrier of crackling fire wood,
     
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shall have a rope of palm-leaf fibre around her neck.