The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 4) — Page 818
CH. 38 58. This is what they will have. So let them taste it—a boiling fluid, and an intensely cold and stinking drink. 3419 59. And various kinds of other of a similar torments nature 3419A ṢĀD PT. 23 هذَا فَلْيَذُوقُوْهُ حَمِيمٌ وَغَشَاقٌ وَأَخَرُ مِنْ شَكْلِمَ أَزْوَاجُ b Prushing headlong with you, O هذَا فَوْجٌ مُّقْتَحِمُ مَّعَكُمْ ۚ لَا مَرْحَباً This is a host of yours. 60 بِهِمْ إِنَّهُمْ صَالُوا النَّارِه leaders of mischief. " No welcome for them. They must burn in the Fire. 3420 a78:26. 18:54; 21:40; 52:14. i. e. the provision of the أنفدت البئر. people became exhausted means, the well lost its water. means, wasting away; getting exhausted; ceasing; destruction (Aqrab). 3419. Important Words: drink) is derived from. They say hot or extremely cold water. 3419A. Commentary: Besides the meaning given in the text, the verse may also mean, "And like them there will be other groups with similar records. " 3420. Important Words: intensely cold and stinking) غساق i. e. the night became intensely غسق الليل i. e. he تحم في الامر They say. تحم means, his eyes shed from) غسقت عيناه. dark (rushing headlong) is derived tears. 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 2732 entered into the affair without consideration. means, he threw himself into the affair with vehemence and difficulty. Commentary: When leaders of disbelief will go to Hell, they will be told that a host of their followers will also enter into fire along with them. As the latter rushed to follow their leaders blindly and unthinkingly rejecting truth, so they will enter Hell rushing headlong. The words) (no welcome for them) may be taken as having been spoken by the angels in charge of