حطب

Core meaning

The wood one carries to the fire to feed it.

Uses

1. ٱلْحَطَب, حَطَبًا → "firewood" : fuel: carried by a woman toward the fire that awaits her, or become what the deviant are for Jahannam.

   • «فَكَانُوا۟ لِجَهَنَّمَ حَطَبًۭا» — "they became firewood for Jahannam" (72:15)
   • «حَمَّالَةَ ٱلْحَطَبِ» — "the one who ceaselessly carries the firewood" (111:4)

Evidence from the text

Both uses bind the wood to the fire. In 72:15, those who deviated from the just measure have themselves become the fuel of Jahannam. In 111:4, the wife named in the previous verse, "He will burn in a fire of flame, and his wife as well" (111:3), is the one who ceaselessly carries the firewood: what she carries feeds the fire she will enter.

See also

وقد (to kindle, fuel)