Quran Ayah Sad (The Letter Sad) 38:57 - 70+ Translation Comparison

Popular and/or Featured Works

Muhammad Asad

This, [then, for them -] so let them taste it: burning despair and ice-cold darknes

Arthur John Arberry

All this; so let them taste it - boiling water and pus

Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)

Yea, such! - then shall they taste it,- a boiling fluid, and a fluid dark, murky, intensely cold!

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Arabic

هَـٰذَا فَلۡیَذُوقُوهُ حَمِیمࣱ وَغَسَّاقࣱ ۝٥٧

Transliteration (2021)

hādhā falyadhūqūhu ḥamīmun waghassāqu

Word for Word
Dr. Shehnaz Shaikh, Ms. Kauser Katri, and more

This (is so)! Then let them taste it, boiling fluid and purulence.

Generally Accepted Translations of the Meaning

Muhammad Asad

This, [then, for them -] so let them taste it: burning despair and ice-cold darknes

Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)

Yea, such! - then shall they taste it,- a boiling fluid, and a fluid dark, murky, intensely cold!

M. M. Pickthall

Here is a boiling and an ice-cold draught, so let them taste it

The Clear Quran, Dr. Mustafa Khattab

Let them then taste this: boiling water and ˹oozing˺ pus,

Wahiduddin Khan

all this will be theirs; let them taste ita scalding, dark, foul fluid

Safi Kaskas

This! So let them taste boiling water and [foul] pus-

Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar

This is so! Then, let them experience this—scalding water and filth

T.B.Irving

Here it is; let them taste it: scalding water and bitter cold;

Shakir

This (shall be so); so let them taste it, boiling and intensely cold (drink)

Abdul Hye

This is so! Then let them taste it, a boiling fluid and dirty wound discharges

Saeed Malik

This here is a fluid bereft of mercy [ḥamīm], and a fluid of gloom [ghassāq]. So let them taste it.

The Study Quran

This it shall be! So let them taste it, a boiling liquid and a cold, murky fluid

Talal Itani & AI (2025)

This, let them taste it: scalding water and oozing pus.

Talal Itani (2012)

All this. Let them taste it—boiling and bitter cold

M. Farook Malik

Such will it be the reward for the wrongdoers. So they will taste scalding water, pus

Dr. Kamal Omar

This (is for those who cross the limits). Then let them taste it — an intensely hot and a dark dirty black (liquid)

Dr. Munir Munshey

(It is appropriate for them)! So let them quench their thirst with boiling water, pus and discharge from wounds

Syed Vickar Ahamed

Yes like this! (And) then they shall taste it— A boiling fluid, and the murky discharge of dirty wounds

Umm Muhammad (Sahih International)

This - so let them taste it - is scalding water and [foul] purulence

Muhammad Sarwar

(They will be told), "This is your recompense

Muhammad Taqi Usmani

Let them taste this: hot water and pus

Shabbir Ahmed

This, then, - so let them taste it - the drink of burning distress and ice-cold wind. (Distress they caused others and insensitivity they showed toward oppression and injustice (78:25))

Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali

This is (their reward); so let them taste it: scalding (water) and constantly (overflowing) pus

Hamid S. Aziz

This (shall be so); then shall they taste it, boiling and intensely cold

Abdel Haleem

all this will be theirs: let them taste it- a scalding, dark, foul fluid

Abdul Majid Daryabadi

This - let them taste it: scalding water and corruption

Ahmed Ali

There will be boiling water for them and cold, clammy, fetid drink to taste

Aisha Bewley

This! So let them taste it — boiling water and scalding pus,

Ali Ünal

This (then is for them), so let them taste it: boiling water and intensely-cold, dark fluid

Ali Quli Qara'i

This; let them taste it: scalding water and pus

[The Monotheist Group] (2017 Edition)

This is so, and let them taste what is boiling and dark.

Musharraf Hussain

Let them taste, scalding water and pus,

A.L. Bilal Muhammad et al (2018)

Yes, then will they taste a boiling fluid, and a fluid dark, murky, intensely cold

Ali Bakhtiari Nejad

This is what they should taste it, boiling water and pus,

Maududi

All this (is for them); so let them taste boiling water and pus

Mohammad Shafi

This, [then, is for them.] So let them taste it: boiling water (to drink) and a pus-like thing (to eat!

Controversial or status undetermined works

Ahmed Raza Khan (Barelvi)

This is for them, therefore let them taste it, boiling water and pus.

Rashad Khalifa

What they taste therein will be hellish drinks and bitter food.

Hasan Al-Fatih Qaribullah

All of this; so let them taste it, boiling water and pus

Faridul Haque

This is for the criminals – so that they may taste it - boiling hot water and pus

Bijan Moeinian

They will be given boiling water…

Maulana Muhammad Ali

This -- so let them taste it, boiling and intensely cold (drink)

Muhammad Ahmed & Samira

This, so they will taste/experience it hot/cold water , and cold/decayed/rotten

Sher Ali

This is what they will have. So let them taste it - a boiling fluid, and an intensely cold and stinking drink

Edip Yuksel

This is so, and let them taste a boiling drink and bitter food.

Amatul Rahman Omar

This is (what the disbelievers will have), so let them suffer from it a burning despair and intensely cold and stinking drink

Dr. Mohammad Tahir-ul-Qadri

This (is punishment) so they should taste it: boiling water and pus

Muhsin Khan & Muhammad al-Hilali

This is so! Then let them taste it, a boiling fluid and dirty wound discharges

Non-Muslim and/or Orientalist works

N J Dawood (2014)

Therein let them taste their drink: scalding water, festering blood

Arthur John Arberry

All this; so let them taste it - boiling water and pus

Edward Henry Palmer

This,- so let them taste it!- hot water, and pus

George Sale

This let them taste, to wit, scalding water, and corruption flowing from the bodies of the damned

John Medows Rodwell

Even so. Let them then taste it - boiling water and gore

New, Partial, or In Progress Translations

Shuaib Abdullahi

This (Haaza), so let (Fal') them taste it (Yazuuquu-hu), magma (Hamiimun) and (Wa) pus (Gassaaq),

Fode Drame

This is a boiling water and a freezing drink, let them taste it then,

Munir Mezyed

This (shall be so). So let them taste its boiling fluid and purulence.

Sahib Mustaqim Bleher

So it is, so they shall taste it with boiling water and freezing cold.

Linda “iLHam” Barto

This is so. They will taste it –boiling despair and bitterly cold emptiness.

Fadel Soliman, Bridges‘ Translation

All this, so let them taste it—scalding water and purulence.

Irving & Mohamed Hegab

Here it is; let them taste it: scalding water and bitter cold;

Samy Mahdy

This is, so let them taste it, scalding water and [foul] purulence.

Sayyid Qutb

Let them, then, taste this: a scalding fluid and a dark, disgusting food,

Ali Quli Qarai

[They will be told, ‘This is scalding water and pus; let them taste it,

Ahmed Hulusi

This is it! Let them taste it! Scalding water (burning ideas pertaining to the identity-self) and purulence (situations resulting from actions based on the idea of being the body)!

Safiur Rahman Mubarakpuri

This is so! Then let them taste it - Hamim and Ghassaq.

A. S. Mohamed

Such is that; so let them taste it: a boiling drink and filthy pus,

Sayyed Abbas Sadr-Ameli

This water is boiling and pus, so let them taste it.

Mir Aneesuddin

(It will be like) this. So let them taste the boiling water and pus,

Al-muntakhab fi tafsir al-Qur‘an al-Karim

As for tasting, they shall experience it in the form of a decoction of the offensive suppurating burns boiling hot and/or ice cold

The Wise Quran Project

This. So let them taste it, hot water and pus,

Obsolete and/or older editions

Yusuf Ali (Orig. 1938)

Yea, such! - then shall they taste it,- a boiling fluid, and a fluid dark, murky, intensely cold!

[The Monotheist Group] (2013 Edition)

This is so, and let them taste what is boiling and dark

[The Monotheist Group] (2011 Edition)

This is so, and let them taste a boiling drink and bitter food

OLD Literal Word for Word

This (is so)! Then let theme it, boiling fluid and purulence

OLD Transliteration

Hatha falyathooqoohu hameemun waghassaqun

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