Umm Jamil

Umm Jamīl (Arabic: أم جميل), full name Arwā bint Ḥarb (Arabic: أروى بنت حرب), was an aunt of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, as well as the wife of Abu Lahab. She is usually remembered for opposing Islam and the prophet, and was condemned in surah Al-Masad of the Quran.

Quotes

• We reject the reprobate,
  His words we repudiate,
  His religion we loathe and hate.
  • A poem about the Islamic prophet Muhammad. As cited in The Life of Muhammad: A Translation of Ishaq's Sirat Rasual Allah by Alfred Guillaume, p. 161. Oxford University (1955). ISBN: 0-19-636033-1.

Quotes about Umm Jamil

See also: Al-Masad (Wikipedia)

"And ˹so will˺ his wife, the carrier of ˹thorny˺ kindling, around her neck will be a rope of palm-fibre." (Quran 111:4–5)

• سَيَصْلَىٰ نَارًۭا ذَاتَ لَهَبٍۢ وَٱمْرَأَتُهُۥ حَمَّالَةَ ٱلْحَطَبِ فِى جِيدِهَا حَبْلٌۭ مِّن مَّسَدٍۭ
  • Quran 111:3–5
  • Translation:
    • He [Abu Lahab] will burn in a flaming Fire, and ˹so will˺ his wife, the carrier of ˹thorny˺ kindling, around her neck will be a rope of palm-fibre.
      • The Clear Quran by Dr. Mustafa Khattab

• Abu Lahab stood up and shouted angrily, "Perish you, Mohammad! Did you invite us here for this?" The answer to Abu Lahab's challenge came in verse 1 of sura 111 (ol-Masad), in which the same Arabic word meaning "perish" appears: "Perish Abu Lahab's hands, and may he (himself) perish!" … Nor would his wife, Omm Jomayyel, who had strewn thorns in the Prophet's path, be left unpunished: "And his wife, the carrier of the firewood sticks, will have a rope of palm fiber on her neck."
  • Ali Dashti: Twenty Three Years: A Study of the Prophetic Career of Mohammad, p. 29

See also

• Abu Lahab
• Jahannam