A Quranic Journal

And his wife, who wraps up thorns and sharp woods, materials which, significantly, can increase the blaze of a fire, and puts them in the Prophet's way, will be subsequently dragged to Hell with a rope tied to her neck, bundled like firewood... This extremely rich and brilliant style led Umm Jamil to claim that the Prophet was in fact 'satirizing' her and her husband. The arrogant and vain Arab woman could not get over being referred to with such a humiliating phrase as 'the carrier of firewood,' who 'shall have a rope of palm-fibre round her neck. ' Her rage grew wilder when the surah became popular among the Arab tribes who esteemed such a literary style!