88:2-17

88:2-17

88:2 

Some faces, that Day, will be humiliated,

88:3 

Labouring (hard), weary,-

88:4 

The while they enter the Blazing Fire,-

88:5 

The while they are given, to drink, of a boiling hot spring,

88:6 

No food will there be for them but a bitter Dhari’

The root-meaning implies again the idea of

humiliation. It is a plant, bitter and thorny, loathsome in smell and appearance, which will neither give fattening nourishment to the body nor in any way satisfy the

burning pangs of hunger, -a fit plant for Hell, like

Zaqqum (56:52; or 17:60, n. 2250).

88:7 

Which will neither nourish nor satisfy hunger.

88:8 

(Other) faces that Day will be joyful,

88:9 

Pleased with their striving, –

88:10 

In a Garden on high,

88:11 

Where they shall hear no (word) of vanity:

88:12 

Therein will be a bubbling spring:

88:13 

Therein will be Thrones (of dignity), raised on high,

88:14

Goblets placed (ready),

88:15 

And cushions set in rows,

88:16 

And rich carpets (all) spread out.

88:17 

Do they not look at the Camels, how they are made? –