Specific Tortures
Hell
Seared Skin full verses back to top
On the Day it (hoarded Gold and Silver) is heated in Hellfire, and their foreheads, sides, and backs are branded with it, they will be told, “This is what you hoarded for yourselves, taste what you hoarded!”
Seared Faces full verses back to top
The Fire will scorch their faces, and they will grimace in agony.
Striking Faces full verses back to top
If only you could see when the angels take the souls of the disbelievers, striking their faces and backs, saying, “Taste the punishment of the Fire.”
And for them are iron rods to strike with.
“This is for what your hands have done, Allah is never unjust to His servants.”
And faces that Day will be downcast
Knowing that a crushing blow is coming.
Roasted Skin full verses back to top
Those who reject Our signs will be cast into a fire, where their skins will be replaced so they may taste the torment again.
Fire Clothes full verses back to top
Fire Duvet full verses back to top
For them is Hell, with beds and coverings of fire. This is how We repay the wrongdoers.
Surrounded full verses back to top
Unable to Die full verses back to top
Scalding Drink full verses back to top
“So, leave those who treat their faith as idle play and distraction. For them, a scalding drink and a torment most bitter, for they denied the truth.”
And drive the wrongdoers to Hell, thirsty
But if one is among the deniers, the misguided
Then a welcome of scalding water
And burning in the fire.
Tasting neither coolness nor drink
Drinking scalding water
Gulping like thirsty camels.
Is this like the fate of those who dwell forever in the Fire, given boiling water and oozing filth to drink that tears their insides apart?
If they cry for relief, they will be given water like molten brass, it will boil in the bellies and scald their faces. What a dreadful drink and a terrible resting place!
When they are cast into it, they will hear it roaring as it boils over.
They will circulate between it and a seething bath.
So, your Lord unleashed upon them a scourge of punishment.
Melting their insides and their skins.
Then a welcome of scalding water
Purulent Water and Pus full verses back to top
Thorny Plant full verses back to top
Shackles full verses back to top
For the ungrateful, We have prepared chains, shackles, and a blazing fire.
Seize him and shackle him.
You will see the guilty bound together in chains.
Then cast him into the blazing fire.
Then bind him in a chain seventy cubits long.
Overwhelming Pain full verses back to top
If only you could see the wrongdoers in the throes of death, as the angels stretch out their hands, saying, “Surrender your souls!
Violent Breathing full verses back to top
As for the wretched, they will be in the Fire, sighing and gasping.
Heaped on Top of Each Other full verses back to top
So that Allah may distinguish the wicked from the righteous, piling the wicked together and casting them into Hell.
Punishment Increased full verses back to top
Those who disbelieved and turned others away from Allah’s path will face multiplied punishment for their corruption.
We will gather them, dragging them on their faces, blind, dumb, and deaf. Their home is Hell, and its flames will grow fiercer.
It will not be lightened for them, and they will despair within it.