Tafseer of The Inevitable · Al-Waaqia · 56:54
And drinking on top of it from scalding water
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The statement concerning the explanation of His word, the Exalted: فَشَارِبُونَ عَلَيْهِ مِنَ الْحَمِيمِ ("And on top of that they will drink of the boiling water") (54)
He, exalted is His mention, says: and the people of the left hand (aṣḥāb al-shimāl) will drink, on top of the trees of zaqqūm once they have eaten them and filled their bellies with them, from the boiling water (al-ḥamīm) which has reached its utmost boiling point and heat. And it has been said: the meaning of His word فَشَارِبُونَ عَلَيْهِ is: drinking on top of the eating of the trees of zaqqūm.
