The Downfall of Abu Lahab and His Wife
هلاك أبي لهب وزوجته
Verse reference
تَبَّتْ يَدَا أَبِي لَهَبٍ وَتَبَّالمسد 1-5
Interpretive reading
The Quranic verse was revealed early and is read as pronouncing their doom while they were still alive; they did not embrace Islam before their deaths, though had they done so it would have called that pronouncement into question.
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