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Surah Sad, Verse 57

سورة ص، الآية ٥٧

38:57 Juz 23 Hizb 46 Page 456 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 38:57

هَٰذَا فَلْيَذُوقُوهُ حَمِيمٌ وَغَسَّاقٌ ۝٥٧

Transliteration

hādhā falyadhūqūhu ḥamīmun waghassāqun

Translation

This - so let them taste it - is scalding water and [foul] purulence.

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Verse 57 of Surah Sad (38:57), a Meccan surah, is in juz 23, on page 456 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 73 reciters.

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Tafsir of verse 57

Al-Mukhtasar

This punishment is extremely hot water, and pus which will flow from the bodies of the people of hell being punished in it, so they should taste it as it is their drink. However it is a drink which does not quench thirst.

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Other translations of verse 57

Let them taste this: scalding water and pus,

This is so! Then let them taste it - a boiling fluid and dirty wound discharges.

Here is a boiling and an ice-cold draught, so let them taste it,

Yea, such! - then shall they taste it,- a boiling fluid, and a fluid dark, murky, intensely cold!-

This (shall be so); so let them taste it, boiling and intensely cold (drink).

This is (their reward); so let them taste it: scalding (water) and constantly (overflowing) pus,

Verse 57 word by word

هَٰذَا hādhā This (is so)
فَلْيَذُوقُوهُ falyadhūqūhu Then let them taste it ذ و ق
حَمِيمٌ ḥamīmun boiling fluid ح م م
وَغَسَّاقٌ waghassāqun and purulence غ س ق

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