Surah Al-Waqi'ah 56:93
سُورَةُ الوَاقِعَةِ · Meccan · Verse 93 of 96
فَنُزُلٌۭ مِّنْ حَمِيمٍۢ
Translation
he will be welcomed with scalding water.
English translation: M.A.S. Abdel Haleem.
Meaning and reflection
'...then a welcome of boiling water.' Ibn Ashur and al-Biqa'i note the return of the bitter irony from earlier, 'nuzul min hamim': the 'nuzul', the hospitality-feast laid on for an arriving guest, is scalding water. The deniers, too, are 'welcomed', to torment. Ask yourself: the verse frames even this outcome as an arrival, a reception, deliberately using the language of welcome to underscore that death is a homecoming to whatever I prepared. Everyone is received somewhere. The question the whole Surah has pressed lands here with full weight: I am, right now, setting the terms of my own welcome. The road I walk is booking the reception that waits at its end. What welcome is the direction of my life currently arranging for me, the rest and peace, or this?
Grounded in classical tafsir: Ibn Ashur, al-Biqa'i, al-Saadi.
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