What follows are passages from the Koran which "normal", "peaceful" believers of Islam accept as legitimate spirituality and love from their god. To a skeptic, it is just the opposite - neither spiritual nor loving, but rather extremely dangerous words for those who so easily abuse such words by putting them into action because it is "Allah's will". Allah is love, and teaches the truth in the afterlife, so it is an evil opinion to say that Allah tortures in the afterlife.
As some examples of how nasty these quotes are, consider:
Surah 4: Al Nisa: The Women (section 8, #56) "Those who reject our signs, we shall soon cast into the Fire; as often as their skins are roasted through, we shall change them for fresh skins that they may taste the penalty, ..." Surah 8: Al Anfal: The Spoils of War (section 2, #12) "... I [Allah] will instil terror into the hearts of unbelievers: smite ye above their necks and smite all their fingertips off them." Surah 14: Ibrahim: Abraham (section 3, #16-17) "In front of such a one [unbeliever] is Hell, and he is given for drink, boiling fetid water. In gulps will he sip it, but never will he be near swallowing it down his throat: Surah 14: Ibrahim: Abraham (section 7, #49) "And thou wilt see the sinners that day bound together in fetters - their garments will be liquid pitch, and their faces covered with Fire." Surah 23: Al Muminun: The Believers (section 6, #103-104) "... The Fire will burn their faces, and they will therein grin, with their lips displaced."
The Koran is divided into 114 Surahs (chapters), which are ordered in different ways depending on the organizer of the Koran you are reading. The following quotes come from the version of the Koran titled "The Meaning of the Holy Quran" by Abdullah Yusuf Ali (Amana Publications, Bethesda, MD), 8th edition.
In summary, these quotes convey the message that non-believers face the most hideous forms of torture in the Fire for all eternity when they die, an eternity of pain and misery based on the actions in a short life - which seems like cruel and unusual punishment from a loving god. There are many such passages throughout the Koran. Other passages give orders to kill others. All of this to scare people into be faithful.
Surah 2: Al Baqarah: The Heifer (section 4, #39) "... But those who reject Faith and belie our signs, they shall be companions of the Fire; they shall abide therein." Surah 2: Al Baqarah: The Heifer (section 24, #191) "... But if they fight you, slay them. Such is the reward of those who suppress Faith." Surah 2: Al Baqarah: The Heifer (section 27, #217) "... And if any of you turn back from their Faith and die in unbelief, ... they will be companions of the Fire and will abide therein." Surah 2: Al Baqarah: The Heifer (section 34, #257) "... Of those who reject Faith the patrons are the Evil Ones, from light they will lead them forth into the depths of darkness. They will be the companions of the Fire, to dwell therein (forever)." Surah 2: Al Baqarah: The Heifer (section 38, #275) "... But those who repeat (the offence) are companions of the Fire; they will abide therein (forever)." NOTE: In this case, the offence is "usury", the lending of money for interest. The Koran itself is silent on how high the interest rate must be for the lender to be tortured for all eternity. Surah 3: Al Imran: The Family of Imran (section 1, #4) "... Then those who reject Faith in the signs of Allah will suffer the severest penalty, and Allah is exalted in might, Lord of retribution." Surah 3: Al Imran: The Family of Imran (section 2, #10) "Those who reject Faith .. they are themselves but fuel for the Fire." Surah 3: Al Imran: The Family of Imran (section 2, #12) "Say to those who reject Faith; soon will ye be vanquished and gathered together to Hell - an evil bed indeed." Surah 3: Al Imran: The Family of Imran (section 6, #56) "As to those who reject Faith, I [Allah] will punish them with terrible agony in this world and in the hereafter, nor will they have anyone to help." NOTE: which "radical Islam" argues that they can be the instrument of this terrible agony in this world Surah 3: Al Imran: The Family of Imran (section 12, #116) "Those who reject Faith - ... they will be companions of the Fire - swelling therein (forever)." Surah 3: Al Imran: The Family of Imran (section 14, #131) "Fear the Fire, which is prepared for those who reject Faith." Surah 3: Al Imran: The Family of Imran (section 18, #177) "Those who purchase unbelief at the price of Faith - not the least harm will they do to Allah, but they will have a grevious punishment." Surah 3: Al Imran: The Family of Imran (section 20, #192) "Our Lord! any whom Thou dost admit to the Fire, truly thou coverest with shame and never will wrongdoers find any helpers." Surah 3: Al Imran: The Family of Imran (section 20, #197) "Little is it for enjoyment: their [unbelievers] ultimate abode is Hell; what an evil bed (to lie on)!" Surah 4: Al Nisa: The Women (section 2, #14) "But those who disobey Allah and His Messenger and transgress His limits will be admitted to a Fire, to abide therein: and they shall have a humilitating punishment." Surah 4: Al Nisa: The Women (section 8, #56) "Those who reject our signs, we shall soon cast into the Fire; as often as their skins are roasted through, we shall change them for fresh skins that they may taste the penalty: for Allah is exalted in power, wise." Surah 4: Al Nisa: The Women (section 20, #140) "... For Allah will collect the hypocrites and those who defy Faith - all in Hell -." Surah 4: Al Nisa: The Women (section 21, #145) "... The hypocrites will be in the lowest depths of the Fire; no helper wilt thou find for them." Surah 4: Al Nisa: The Women (section 23, #168) "Those who reject Faith and do wrong - Allah will not forgive them nor guide them to any way - except the way of Hell, to dwell therein forever. And this to Allah is easy." Surah 5: Al Maidah: The Repast (section 2, #10) "Those who reject Faith and deny our signs, will be companions of Hell-fire." Surah 5: Al Maidah: The Repast (section 5, #53) "The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger, and strive with might and main for mischief through the land is: execution, or crucifixion, or the cutting off of hands and feet from opposite sides, or exile from the land: that is their disgrace in this world, and a heavy punishment is theirs in the hereafter." Surah 5: Al Maidah: The Repast (section 6, #36-37) "As to those who reject Faith ... their wish will be to get out of the Fire, but never will they get out therefrom: their penalty will be one that endures." Surah 5: Al Maidah: The Repast (section 11, #86) "But those who reject our Faith and belie our signs - they shall be companions of Hell-fire." Surah 7: Al Araf: The Heights (section 1, #4) "How many towns have we destroyed (for their sins)? Our punishment took them on a sudden by night or while they slept for their afternoon rest." Note: mini-genocide. Surah 7: Al Araf: The Heights (section 4, #36) "But those who reject our signs and treat them with arrogance - they are companions of the Fire to dwell therein (forever)." Surah 7: Al Araf: The Heights (section 4, #38) "He will say: Enter ye in the company of the peoples [unbelievers] who passed away before you - men and Jinns - into the Fire. Every time a new people [of unbelievers] enters, it curses its sister-people (that went before), until they follow each other, all into the Fire." NOTE: Why isn't "sister-people" another attempt at misogyny, why not use "brother-people"? Surah 7: Al Araf: The Heights (section 6, #50) "The companions of the Fire will call to the companions of the Garden: 'Pour down to us water or anything that Allah doth provide for your sustenance.' They will say: 'Both these things hath Allah forbidden to those who reject Him -." Surah 8: Al Anfal: The Spoils of War (section 2, #12) "... I [Allah] will instil terror into the hearts of unbelievers: smite ye above their necks and smite all their fingertips off them." Surah 8: Al Anfal: The Spoils of War (section 2, #14) "Thus (will it be said): 'Taste ye then of the (punishment): for those who resist Allah, is the penalty of the Fire'." Surah 8: Al Anfal: The Spoils of War (section 5, #38-39) "Say to the unbelievers ... if they persist, the punishment of those before them is already (a matter of warning for them). And fight them on until there is no more tumult or oppression, and there prevails justice and faith in Allah altogether and everywhere." Surah 8: Al Anfal: The Spoils of War (section 8, #60) "Against them [the unbelievers] make ready your strength to the utmost of your power, including steeds of war, to strike terror into (the hearts of) the enemies, of Allah and your enemies, and others besides, whom ye may not know, but whom Allah doth know." NOTE: Allegorically (a belief form accepted by the "normals"), are not the 9/11 airplanes "steeds" that struck terror? Surah 8: Al Anfal: The Spoils of War (section 9, #65) "O Prophet! rouse the believers to the fight. If there are twenty amongst you, patient and persevering, they will vanquish two hundred: if a hundred, they will vanquish a thousand of the unbelievers: for these are a people without understanding." Surah 9: Al Tawbah: The Repentence (section 8, #63) "Know they not that for those who oppose Allah and His Messenger, is the Fire of Hell? - wherein they shall dwell." Surah 9: Al Tawbah: The Repentence (section 9, #68) "Allah hath promised the hypocrites, men and women, and the rejecters, of Faith, the Fire of Hell: therein shall they dwell: sufficient is it for them: for them is the curse of Allah, and an enduring punishment -". Surah 9: Al Tawbah: The Repentence (section 10, #73) "O Prophet! strive hard against the unbelievers and the hypocrite, and be firm against them. Their abode is Hell - an evil refuge indeed." Surah 9: Al Tawbah: The Repentence (section 16, #123) "O ye who believe! Fight the unbelievers who gird you about, and let them find firmness in you: and know that Allah is with those who FEAR Him." Surah 10: Yunus: Jonah (section 1, #4) "... But those who reject [Allah] will have draughts of boiling fluids, and a penalty grevious, because they did reject him." Surah 10: Yunus: Jonah (section 1, #7-8) "With the life of the present, and those who heed not our signs - their abode is the Fire, because of the (evil) they earned." Surah 10: Yunus: Jonah (section 3, #27) "But those who have earned evil will have a reward of like evil: ignominy will cover their faces: no defender will they have from (the wrath of) Allah: their faces will be covered, as it were, from pieces from the depth of darkness of night: they are companions of the Fire: they will abide therein (forever)!" Surah 10: Yunus: Jonah (section 7, #69-70) "Say: Those who invent a lie against Allah will never prosper. A little enjoyment in this world! - and then, to us will abide their return. Then we shall make them taste the severest penalty for their blasphemies." Surah 11: Hud: The Prophet Hud (section 2, #15-16) "Those who desire the life of the present and its glitter - to them we shall pay (the price of) their deeds therein - without diminution. They are those for whom there is nothing in the hereafter but the Fire." Surah 11: Hud: The Prophet Hud (section 9, #106) "Those who are wretched shall be in the Fire: there will be for them therein (nothing but) the heaving of sighs and sobs." Surah 12: Al Rad: The Thunder (section 1, #5) "If thou dost marvel (at their want of Faith) ... they are those who deny their Lord! They are those round whose necks will be yokes (of servitude): they will be companions of the Fire, to dwell therein (forever)." Surah 12: Al Rad: The Thunder (section 2, #18) "... But those who respond not to [Allah] - even if they had all that is in the heavens and on earth, and as much more, (in vain) would they offer it for ransom. For them will the reckoning be terrible: their abode will be Hell - what a bed of misery!" Surah 14: Ibrahim: Abraham (section 3, #16-17) "In front of such a one [unbeliever] is Hell, and he is given for drink, boiling fetid water. In gulps will he sip it, but never will he be near swallowing it down his throat: death will come to him from every quarter, yet will he not die: and in front of him will be a chastisement unrelenting." Surah 14: Ibrahim: Abraham (section 5, #28-29) "Hast thou not turned thy vision to those who have changed the favor of Allah into blasphemy and caused their people to descend to the house of perdition? - into Hell? They will burn therein - an evil place to stay in!" Surah 14: Ibrahim: Abraham (section 5, #30) "And they set up (idols) as equal to Allah, to mislead (men) from the path! Say: Enjoy your brief power! But verily ye are making straightway to Hell!" Surah 14: Ibrahim: Abraham (section 7, #49) "And thou wilt see the sinners that day bound together in fetters - their garments will be liquid pitch, and their faces covered with Fire." Surah 17: Al Isra: The Night Journey (section 1, #10) "And to those who believe not in the hereafter, (it announceth) that we have prepared for them a penalty grevious (indeed)." Surah 17: Al Isra: The Night Journey (section 2, #18) "... to such persons [who seek worldly pleasures] as we will: in the end have we provided Hell for them: they will burn therein, disgraced and rejected." Surah 17: Al Isra: The Night Journey (section 4, #33) "Nor take life - which Allah has made sacred - except for just cause." NOTE: Always way too dangerous for any god to allow people to kill for any arbitrarily-defined "just" cause. Surah 17: Al Isra: The Night Journey (section 11, #97) "... But he whom [Allah] leaves astray - for such wilt thou find no protector besides Him. On the Day of Judgment we shall gather them together, prone on their faces, blind, dumb and deaf: their abode will be hell: every time it shows abatement, we shall increase for them the fierceness of the Fire." NOTE: Not sure how this is being translated. Seems to say that Allah will deliberately abandon some people so they can then be burned in hell. Surah 18: Al Kahf: The Cave (section 4, #29) "... For the wrongdoers we have prepared a Fire whose (smoke and flames), like the walls and roof of a tent, will hem them in: if they implore relief they will be granted water like melted brass that will scald their faces. ..." Surah 18: Al Kahf: The Cave (section 8, #59) "Such were the populations we destroyed when they committed inquities: but we fixed an appointed time for their destruction." Note: mini-genocide. Surah 18: Al Kahf: The Cave (section 12, #102) "Do the unbelievers think that they can take my servants as protectors besides me? Verily We have prepared Hell for the unbelievers for (their) entertainment." Surah 18: Al Kahf: The Cave (section 12, #106) "That is their reward, Hell; because they rejected Faith, and took My Signs and My Messengers by way of jest." Surah 21: Al Anbiya: The Prophets (section 2, #11) "How many were the populations we utterly destroyed because of their inquities, setting up in their places other peoples." NOTE: mini-genocide Surah 21: Al Anbiya: The Prophets (section 3, #39) "If only the unbelievers knew (the time) when they will not be able to ward off the Fire from their faces, nor yet from their backs, and (when) no help can reach them!" Surah 21: Al Anbiya: The Prophets (section 6, #77) "We helped him [Noah] against people who rejected Our Signs: truly they were a people given to evil: so we drowned them (in the Flood) all together." Surah 22: Al Hajj: The Pilgrimage (section 1, #9) "... for him [those who lead people astray from Allah] there is disgrace in this life, and on the day of judgment we shall make him taste the penalty of burning Fire." Surah 22: Al Hajj: The Pilgrimage (section 2, #19-22) "But those who deny (their Lord) - for them will be cut out a garment of Fire: over their heads will be poured out boiling water. With it will be scalded what is within their bodies, as well as their skins. In addition there will be maces of iron (to punish) them. Every time they wish to get away therefrom, from anguish, they will be forced back therein, and (it will be said), 'Taste ye the penalty of Burning!'." Surah 22: Al Hajj: The Pilgrimage (section 7, #51) "But those whose strive against Our Signs, to frustrate Them, they will be companions of the Fire." Surah 22: Al Hajj: The Pilgrimage (section 9, #72) "Shall I tell you of something (far) worse than these Signs? It is the Fire (of Hell)! Allah has promised it to the unbelievers! and evil is that destination!" Surah 23: Al Muminun: The Believers (section 6, #103-104) "But those whose balance is light, will be those who have lost their souls; in Hell will they abide. The Fire will burn their faces, and they will therein grin, with their lips displaced." Surah 24: Al Nur: The Light (section 7, #57) "Never think thou that the unbelievers are going to frustrate (Allah's plan) on earth: their abode is the Fire - and it is indeed an evil refuge." Surah 25: Al Furqan: The Criterion (section 1, #11) "Nay, they deny the Hour (of the judgment to come): but we have prepared a blazing Fire for such as deny the Hour." Surah 25: Al Furqan: The Criterion (section 4, #37) "And the people of Noah - when they rejected the messengers, we drowned them, and we made them as a sign for mankind; and we have prepared for (all) wrongdoers a grievous penalty." Surah 32: Al Sajdah: The Prostration (section 2, #20) "As to those who are rebellious and wicked, their abode will be the Fire: every time they wish to get away therefrom, they will be forced thereinto, and it will be said to them: 'Taste ye the penalty of the Fire, the which ye were wont to reject as false.'" Surah 33: Al Ahzab: The Confederates (section 8, #64-65) "Verily Allah has cursed the unbelievers and prepared for them a blazing Fire - to dwell therein forever: no protector will they find, nor helper." Surah 35: Fatir: The Originator of Creation (section 1, #6-7) "Verily Satan is an enemy to you: so treat him as an enemy. He only invites his adherents, that they may become companions of the blazing Fire. For those who reject Allah, is a terrible penalty ...". Surah 35: Fatir: The Originator of Creation (section 4, #36) "But those who reject (Allah) - for them will be the Fire of Hell: no term shall be determined for them, so they should die, nor shall its penalty be lightened for them. Thus do we reward every ungrateful one." Surah 37: Al Saffat: Those Ranged in Ranks (section 2, #62-68) "Is that better entertainment or the Tree of Zaqqim? For we have truly made it (as) a trial for the wrongdoers. For it is a tree that springs out of the bottom of Hell Fire: the shoots of its fruit-stalks are like the heads of devils: truly they will eat thereof and fill their belies therewith. Then on top of that they will be given a mixture made of boiling water. Then shall their return be to the (blazing) Fire." Surah 38: Sad: (section 1, #2-3) "But the unbelievers (are steeped) in self-glory and separatism. How many generations before them did we destroy? In the end they cried (for mercy) - when there was no longer time for being saved." Note: mini-genocide Surah 38: Sad: (section 4, #55-59) "But - for the wrongdoers will be an evil place of (final) return! Hell! - they will burn therein - an evil bed (indeed to lie on)! - Yea, such! - then shall they taste it - a boiling fluid, and a fluid dark, murky, intensely cold! - and other penalties of a similar kind. To match them! Here is a troop rushing headlong with you! No welcome for them! Truly, they shall burn in the Fire!" Surah 39: Al Zumar: Crowds (section 4, #32) "Who, then, doth more wrong than one who utters a lie concerning Allah, and rejects the truth when it comes to him! Is there not in Hell an abode for blasphemers?" Surah 40: Ghafir: Forgiver (section 8, #70-72) "Those who reject the Book and the (revelations) with which we sent out messengers: but soon shall they know - when the yokes (shall be) round their necks, and the chains; they shall be dragged along - in the boiling fetid fluid; then in the Fire shall they be burned; ..." Surah 41: Fussilat: Expounded (section 4, #27-28) "But we will certainly give the unbelievers a taste of a severe penalty, and we will require them for the worst of their deeds. Such is the requital of the enemies of Allah - the Fire: therein will be for them the eternal Home ..." Surah 44: Al Dukhan: The Smoke (section 3, #43-48) "Verily the tree of Zaqqum will be the food of the sinful - like molten brass; it will boil in their insides, like the scalding water. (A voice will cry:) 'Sieze ye him and drag him into the midst of the blazing Fire! Then pour over his head the penalty of the boiling water." Surah 46: Al Ahqaf: Winding Sand-Tracts (section 2, #20) "And on the day that the unbelievers will be placed before the Fire, (it will be said to them): 'Ye received your good things in the life of the world, and ye took your pleasure out of them: but today shall ye be recompensed with a penalty of humiliation" ..." Surah 47: Muhammad: (section 1, #4) "Therefore, when ye meet the unbelievers in fight, smite at their necks; ..." Surah 47: Muhammadd: (section 2, #12) "... While those who reject Allah will enjoy (this world) and eat as cattle eat; and the Fire will be their abode." Surah 48: Al Fath: The Victory (section 1, #6) "And that he may punish the hypocrites, men and women, and the polytheists, men and women, who imagine an evil opinion of Allah. On them is a round of evil: the wrath of Allah is on them: he has cursed them and got Hell ready for them: and evil is it for a destination." Note: it is an evil opinion to say that Allah tortures Surah 48: Al Fath: The Victory (section 2, #13) "And if any believe not in Allah and his Messenger, we have prepared for those who reject Allah, a blazing Fire!" Surah 54: Al Qamar: The Moon (section 3, #47-48) "Truly those in sin are the ones straying in mind, and mad. The day they will be dragged through the Fire on their faces, (they will hear): 'Taste ye the touch of Hell!'." Surah 55: Al Rahman: The Most Gracious (section 2, 43-44) "This is the Hell which the sinners deny: in its midst of boiling hot water will they wander round!". Surah 56: Al Waqiah: The Inevitable (section 2, #51-55) "They will ye truly - o ye that go wrong, and treat truth as falsehood! - ye will surely taste of the Tree of Zaqqum. Then will ye fill your insides therewith, and drink boiling water on top of it: indeed, ye shall drink like diseased camels raging with thirst!" Surah 56: Al Waqiah: The Inevitable (section 3, #92-94) "And if he be of those who treat truth as falsehood, who go wrong, for him is entertainment with boiling water, and burning in Hell Fire." Surah 57: Al Hadid: Iron (section 2, #19) "... But those who reject Allah and deny our signs - they are the companions of Hell Fire." Surah 59: Al Hashr: The Mustering (section 1, #3-4) "... And in the hereafter they [unbelievers] shall certainly have the punishment of the Fire. That is because they resisted Allah and His Messenger: and if anyone resists Allah, verily Allah is severe in punishment." Surah 59: Al Hashr: The Mustering (section 2, #16-17) "... Like the Evil One when he says to man, 'Deny Allah': but when Man denies Allah, (the Evil One) says, 'I am free of thee: I do fear Allah, the Lord of the Worlds!'. The end of both will be that they go into the Fire, dwelling therein forever. Such is the reward of the wrongdoers." Surah 66: Al Tahrim: Prohibition (section 1, #6) "O ye who believe! Save yourselves and your families from a Fire whose fuel is men and stones, over which are appointed angels stern and severe, ..." Surah 67: Al Mulk: The Dominion (section 1, #5-6) "... and We have made such (lamps as) missiles to drive away the evil ones, and have prepared for them the penalty of the blazing Fire. For those who reject their Lord (and Cherisher) is the penalty of Hell: and evil is (such) destination." Surah 70: Al Maarij: The Ways of Ascent (section 1, #11-16) "... The sinner's desire will be: would that he could redeem himself from the penalty of that Day by (sacrificing) his children, his wife and his brother, his kindred who sheltered him. And all, all that is on earth - so it could deliver him: By no means! For it would be the Fire of Hell! - plucking out (his being) right into the skull!" Surah 71: Nuh: Noah (section 2, #25-26, 28) "Because of their sins they were drowned (in the flood), and were made to enter the Fire (of punishment); and they found - in lieu of Allah - none to help them. And Noah said: 'O my Lord! Leave not of the unbelievers, a single one on earth! ... And to the wrongdoers, grant thou no increase but in perdition!'" Surah 73: Al Muzzammil: The Enfolded One (section 1, #11-12) "... Who (yet) deny the truth; bear with them for a little while. With us are fetters (to bind them) and a Fire (to burn them), and a food that chokes, and a penalty grevious." Surah 74: Al Muddaththir: The One Wrapper Up (section 1, #24-26) "The said [an unbeliever]: 'This [Islam] is nothing but magic derived from of old. This is nothing but the word of a mortal!' Soon I will cast him into Hell Fire!". Surah 74: Al Muddaththir: The One Wrapper Up (section 2, #41-46) "And (ask) of the sinners: 'What led you into Hell Fire?' They will say: 'We were not of those who prayed; nor were we of those who fed the indigent; but we used to talk vanities with vain talkers; and we used to deny the Day of Judgment.'" Surah 76: Al Insan: Man (section 1, #4) "For the rejecters we have prepared chains, yokes and a blazing fire." Surah 79: Al Naziat: Those Who Tear Out (section 2, #36-39) "And Hell Fire shall be placed in full view for (all) to see - then, for such as had transgressed all bounds, and had preferred the life of this world, the abode will be Hell Fire." Surah 82: Al Infitar: The Cleaving Asunder (section 1, #15) "And the wicked - they will be in the Fire, which they will enter on the Day of Judgment." Surah 85: Al Buruj: The Constellation (section 1, #10) "Those who persecute (or draw into temptation) the believers, men and women, and do not turn in repentence, will have the penalty of Hell: they will have the penalty of the burning Fire." Surah 87: Al Ala: The Most High (section 1, #10-13) "The admonition will be received by those who fear (Allah): but it will be avoided by those most unfortunate ones, who will enter the Great Fire, in which they will then neither die nor live." Surah 88: Al Ghashiyah: The Overwhelming Event (section 1, #2-7) "Some faces, that Day, will be humilated, labouring (hard) weary - the while they enter the blazing Fire - the while they are given to drink, of a boiling hot spring, no food will there be for them but a bitter [plant] which will neither nourish nor satisfy hunger." Surah 98: Al Bayyinah: The Clear Evidence (section 1, #6) "Those who reject (truth) among the people of the Book and among the polytheists, will be in Hell Fire, to dwell therein (forever). They are the worst of creatures." Surah 111: Al Masud: The Plaited Rope (section 1, #1-5) "Perish the hands of the Father of Flame! Perish he! No profit to him from all his wealth and all his gains! Burnt soon will he be in a Fire of blazing flame! His wife shall carry the (crackling) wood - as fuel! A twisted rope of palm leaf fibre round her (own) neck!"