An-Naba 78:25
The Tidings · Meccan · Juz 30 · Page 582
Scalding Water and Pus
إِلَّا حَمِيمࣰا وَغَسَّاقࣰا ٢٥
Save boiling water and a paralysing cold.
Translation: Marmaduke Pickthall
Meaning
Except scalding water and pus.
Insight
Elmalılı explains “hamim” as boiling water and “ghassaq” as the pus flowing from the bodies of the people of Hell.
Reflect
Stay away today from something that soils your heart.
This short note is based on Elmalılı Hamdi Yazır’s Turkish commentary and has not yet been reviewed by a scholar.
Elmalılı’s commentary
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