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اِلَّا حَم۪يماً وَغَسَّاقاًۙ

Illa hameeman waghassaqa

except for boiling water and scalding pus –

  • Progressive Muslims

    Except for boiling water and filthy discharge.

  • Shabbir Ahmed

    Only burning anguish and ice-cold darkness. (38:37).

  • Sam Gerrans

    Save scalding water and purulence,

  • The Monotheist Group

    Except that which is boiling and dark.

  • Edip-Layth

    Except for boiling water and filthy discharge.

  • Aisha Bewley

    except for boiling water and scalding pus –

  • Rashad Khalifa

    Only an inferno, and bitter food.

  • Mohamed Ahmed - Samira

    Except boiling water and benumbing cold:

  • Sahih International

    Except scalding water and [foul] purulence -

  • Muhammad Asad

    only burning despair and ice-cold darkness:

  • Marmaduke Pickthall

    Save boiling water and a paralysing cold:

  • Abdel Khalek Himmat

    But only boiling water and their rotten discharges for doing their worst.

  • Bijan Moeinian

    The only thing that they will taste is a boiling drink and a dark murky extremely cold fluid.

  • Al-Hilali & Khan

    Except boiling water, and dirty wound discharges -

  • Abdullah Yusuf Ali

    Save a boiling fluid and a fluid, dark, murky, intensely cold,

  • Mustafa Khattab

    except boiling water and ˹oozing˺ pus—

  • Taqi Usmani

    except boiling water and pus,

  • Abdul Haleem

    except one that is scalding and dark––

  • Arthur John Arberry

    save boiling water and pus

  • E. Henry Palmer

    but only boiling water and pus;-

  • Hamid S. Aziz

    But boiling and intensely cold water,

  • Mahmoud Ghali

    Except scalding water and (overflowing) pus,

  • George Sale

    except boiling water, and filthy corruption:

  • Syed Vickar Ahamed

    Save a boiling fluid and a fluid, dark, grim, bitterly cold—

  • Amatul Rahman Omar

    All that they shall have will be boiling water or stinking fluid as a recompense,

  • Ali Quli Qarai

    except boiling water and pus