Topic: Ghassaq
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هَٰذَا فَلْيَذُوقُوهُ حَمِيمٌ وَغَسَّاقٌ
78:26.
78:26.
The inmates of Hell will be made to drink intensely hot or intensely cold water. As they did not make proper use of their God-given faculties and went to extremes in using them and did not follow the golden mean, so they will be made to drink extremely hot or extremely cold water.
78:26.
Important Words:
غساق (intensely cold and stinking drink) is derived from غسق. They say غسق اللیل i.e. the night became intensely dark. غسقت عیناہ (means, his eyes shed tears. غساق means, the ichor or watery matter and thick purulent matter that will flow and drip from the skins of the inmates of Hell, or the washings of them or their tears; intensely cold; cold and stinking (Lane). See also 17:79.
Commentary:
The inmates of Hell will be made to drink intensely hot or intensely cold water. As they did not make proper use of their God-given faculties and went to extremes in using them and did not follow the golden mean, so they will be made to drink extremely hot or extremely cold water.
b
78:26.
a
78:26.
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Important Words:
غساق (intensely cold and stinking drink) is derived from غسق. They say غسق اللیل i.e. the night became intensely dark. غسقت عیناہ (means, his eyes shed tears. غساق means, the ichor or watery matter and thick purulent matter that will flow and drip from the skins of the inmates of Hell, or the washings of them or their tears; intensely cold; cold and stinking (Lane). See also 17:79.
Commentary:
The inmates of Hell will be made to drink intensely hot or intensely cold water. As they did not make proper use of their God-given faculties and went to extremes in using them and did not follow the golden mean, so they will be made to drink extremely hot or extremely cold water.
d
78:26.
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The inmates of Hell will be made to drink intensely hot or intensely cold water. As they did not make proper use of their God-given faculties and went to extremes in using them and did not follow the golden mean, so they will be made to drink extremely hot or extremely cold water.
إِلَّا حَمِيمًا وَغَسَّاقًا
6:71; 69:37.
6:71; 69:37.
Important Words:
غساق (stinking fluid intensely cold) means, ichor; the washings of wounds; intense cold that burns by reason of its coolness; cold and stinking. حمیم و غساق means, boiling fluid and intensely cold and stinking drink (Lane & Aqrab).
Commentary:
The turbulent pursuit of evil, and cold indifference towards virtue, of wrongdoers will take the form of boiling water and intensely cold and stinking drink.
a
6:71; 69:37.
b
6:71; 69:37.
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Important Words:
غساق (stinking fluid intensely cold) means, ichor; the washings of wounds; intense cold that burns by reason of its coolness; cold and stinking. حمیم و غساق means, boiling fluid and intensely cold and stinking drink (Lane & Aqrab).
Commentary:
The turbulent pursuit of evil, and cold indifference towards virtue, of wrongdoers will take the form of boiling water and intensely cold and stinking drink.
b
6:71; 69:37.
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The turbulent pursuit of evil and cold indifference towards virtue and righteousness of wrongdoers will take the form of boiling water and intensely cold and stinking drink.