78. Surah An-Naba, Verse 25
Save scalding water and purulence,
Translations
Notes
Aisha Bewley
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 The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation
Save scalding water and purulence,
The Monotheist Group The Quran: A Monotheist Translation
Except that which is boiling and dark.
Rashad Khalifa The Final Testament
Only an inferno, and bitter food.
Mohamed Ahmed - Samira
Except boiling water and benumbing cold:
Sahih International (Umm Muhammad, Mary Kennedy, Amatullah Bantley)
Except scalding water and purulence -
Muhammad Asad
only burning despair and ice-cold darkness:
Marmaduke Pickthall
Save boiling water and a paralysing cold:
Abul A'la Maududi Tafhim commentary
save boiling water and wash of the wounds;*
Abdel Khalek Himmat Al- Muntakhab
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 The Clear Quran
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