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111:5 - A twisted rope of palm-leaf fibre round her (own) neck!
6294 Abu Lahab, "Father of Flame", was the nick-name of an uncle of the holy Prophet, from his fiery hot temper and his
ruddy complexion. He was one of the most inveterate enemies of early Islam. When the holy Prophet called together
the Quraish and his own kith and kin to come and listen to his preaching and his warning against the sins of his
people, the "Father of Flame" flared up and cursed the holy Prophet, saying "Perdition to thee!" According to the
English saying, "the causeless curse will not come". His words were futile, but his power and strength were equally
futile. The star of Islam rose higher and higher every day, and its persecuters dwindled in strength and power. Many of
the leaders of persecution perished at Badr, and Abu Lahab himself perished a week after Badr, consumed with grief
and his own fiery passions. Verse 3 was prophetic of his end in this very life, though it also refers to the Hereafter.
(111.1)
6295 Abu Lahab's wife was a woman of equally passionate spite and cruelty against the sacred person of the holy Prophet.
She used to tie bundles of thorns with ropes of twisted palm-leaf fibre and carry them and strew them about on dark
nights in the paths which the Prophet was expected to take, in order to cause him bodily injury. "To carry firewood"
may also be symbolical for carrying tales between people to embroil them. This was also one of her vices. But she
was laying up for herself another kind of Fire and another kind of Rope, the Fire of Punishment, and the Rope of
Slavery to Evil. Thus does Evil prepare its own fate. This is the general lesson of sustained craft and cruel wrongdoing
recoiling on the wrong-doer's head. See also Introduction to this Sura. (111.4)
Sahih Al-Bukhari Hadith
Hadith 6.496 Narrated by
Ibn Abbas
The Prophet went out towards Al-Batha' and ascended the mountain and shouted, "O Sabahah!" So the Quraish people
gathered around him. He said, "Do you see? If I tell you that an enemy is going to attack you in the morning or in the evening,
will you believe me?" They replied, "Yes." He said, "Then I am a plain warner to you of a coming severe punishment." Abu
Lahab said, "Is it for this reason that you have gathered us? May you perish!" Then Allah revealed: "Perish the hands of Abu
Lahab!"
Sahih Al-Bukhari Hadith
Hadith 6.506
Jundub
Narrated by
Once the Prophet fell ill and did not offer the night prayer (Tahajjud prayer) for a night or two. A woman (the wife of Abu
Lahab) came to him and said, "O Muhammad! I do not see but that your Satan has left you." Then Allah revealed (Surat-Ad-
Duha):
"By the fore-noon, and by the night when it darkens (or is still); Your Lord has not forsaken you, nor hated you." (93)
AD PEOPLE:
7:74 - "And remember how He made you inheritors after the Ad people and gave you habitations in
the land: ye build for yourselves palaces and castles in (open) plains and carve out homes in
the mountains; so bring to remembrance the benefits (ye have received) from Allah and refrain
from evil and mischief on the earth."
11:50 -To the `Ad People (We sent) Hud one of their own brethren. He said: "O my people!
worship Allah! ye have no other god but Him. (Your other gods) ye do nothing but invent! 1545
1545 Cf. the story of Hud the Messenger of the 'Ad People, in vii. 65-72. There the argument was how other Peoples
treated thier prophets as the Makkans were treating Al-Mustafa. Here we see another point emphasized: the
insolence of the 'Ad in obstinately adhering to false gods after the true God had been preached to them, Allah's grace
to them, and finally Allah's justice in bringing them to book while the righteous were saved. The locality in which the
'Ad flourished is indicated in n. 1040 to vii. 65. (11.50)
11:59 - Such were the `Ad people: they rejected the Signs of their Lord and Cherisher; disobeyed
His Apostles; and followed the command of every powerful obstinate transgressor. 1555
1555 Instead of following the beneficent Lord who cherished them, they followed every rebel against Allah's Law, if he only
obtained a little power to dazzle them. (11.59)
69:4 - The Thamud and the `Ad people (branded) as false the Stunning Calamity! 56365637
69:6 - And the `Ad they were destroyed by a furious wind exceedingly violent; 5639
5639 The 'Ad were an unjust people spoilt by their prosperity. The prophet Hud preached to them in vain. They were
apparently destroyed by a terrible blast of wind. See n. 1040 to vii. 65. See also xli. 15-16, n. 4483, and liv. 19, n.
5144. (69.6)
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