๏ Perished the hands of the father of the flame – and he perished! (1) What he benefited for himself of his wealth and what he earned, (2) still he will burn in a fire of blazing flames! (3) and his companion, the carrier of the fuel, (4) about her slender neck is a cord of binding rope. (5) ๏

— _al-masad_⋆111/1-5

This comes after a chapter which says God's help results in people embracing the moral philosophy of the way. God's victory is not accumulating wealth.

Two archetypes are mentioned.

The one who with a fiery disposition, with a burning ambition for wealth, will perish.

His enabler and accomplice, the one who fuels his flames, will perish with him. Her beautiful slender neck will be bound to him with a noose. They share the punishment for disrupting the social living of the previous chapter, and defying the unity of God of the next chapter.

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