Allah (the Exalted) says: "And they are given to drink of scalding water that will sever their intestines," and He says: "And if they call for help, they will be helped with water like molten copper, which will scald their faces." (1)

12234 - From Ikrimah (may Allah be pleased with him) regarding His saying: "And he is given to drink of purulent water," he said: It is pus and blood. (2)

12235 - From Qatadah (may Allah be pleased with him) regarding His saying: "And he is given to drink of purulent water," he said: Water that flows from between his flesh and his skin. (3)

12236 - Ali ibn Ishaq narrated to us, Abdullah reported to us, Safwan ibn Amr reported to us, from Ubaydullah ibn Busr, from Abu Umamah (may Allah be pleased with him), from the Prophet (may the peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) regarding His saying: "And he is given to drink of purulent water. He gulps it," he said: "It is brought near to him, and he finds it repulsive. When it is brought near him, it will scald his face and his scalp will fall off. When he drinks it, it will cut his intestines until it exits from his anus." Allah (the Exalted) says: "And they are given to drink of scalding water that will sever their intestines," and He says: "And if they call for help, they will be helped with water like molten copper, which will scald their faces; wretched is the drink." (4)

His saying, the Exalted: "And death will come to him from every place."

12237 - From Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with him) regarding His saying: "And death will come to him from every place," he said: [It refers to] types of torment. There is no type [of it] but that death comes to him from it, if he were to die, but he does not die because Allah will not decree for them that they die. (5)

12238 - From Maymun ibn Mihran (may Allah be pleased with him) regarding His saying: "And death will come to him from every place," he said: From every bone, vein, and nerve. (6)

12239 - From Ibrahim al-Taymi (may Allah be pleased with him) [regarding] "And death will come to him from every place," he said: From every location of a hair on his body. "And behind him is a severe torment," he said: Eternity. (7)

His saying, the Exalted: "The example of those who disbelieve in their Lord, their deeds are like ashes."

12240 - From Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them) regarding His saying: "The example of those who disbelieve in their Lord, their deeds are like ashes," he said: Those who disbelieved in their Lord worshiped other than Him, so their deeds on the Day of Resurrection are like ashes upon which the wind blows on a stormy day; they have no power over anything of their deeds that might benefit them, just as one has no power over ashes when it is released on a stormy day. (8)