DESCRIPTION OF HELL - [8] Ghassaq and Kate (The Dreg of Oil), Water of Pus and Boiling Water.

 

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Ghassaq

لَّا يَذُوقُونَ فِيهَا بَرْدًۭا وَلَا شَرَابًا ٢٤

إِلَّا حَمِيمًۭا وَغَسَّاقًۭا ٢٥

‘They shall not taste anything cool or drink anything else except boiling water and ‘Zaqqum’.” 

(Surah Naba’a : Ayat 24-25).

The Holy Prophet ( Muhammad Rasulullahﷺ) observed: ‘If one bucket of Ghassaq is poured over the world, the whole world would be upset by its foul smell.’’ What is Ghassaq ?>———-eminent religious figures of Ummah have defined it in various manners :

The author of Mirgat has copied four statements :

(1) It denotes the sinners’ pus and filth;

(2) It stands for the sinners’ tears;

(3) It points to Zamhinr, 7.e. the torment of Hell in which the tormented person will be frozen;

(4) It is a cold rotten pus and it will be so frozen that the sinners will be unable to drink it (but they shall perforce drink it to satiate their hunger). In any case, Ghassaq is a very foul thing.

Kate (The Dreg of Oil) 

وَقُلِ ٱلْحَقُّ مِن رَّبِّكُمْ ۖ فَمَن شَآءَ فَلْيُؤْمِن وَمَن شَآءَ فَلْيَكْفُرْ ۚ إِنَّآ أَعْتَدْنَا لِلظَّـٰلِمِينَ نَارًا أَحَاطَ بِهِمْ سُرَادِقُهَا ۚ وَإِن يَسْتَغِيثُوا۟ يُغَاثُوا۟ بِمَآءٍۢ كَٱلْمُهْلِ يَشْوِى ٱلْوُجُوهَ ۚ بِئْسَ ٱلشَّرَابُ وَسَآءَتْ مُرْتَفَقًا ٢٩. 

"Say: (It is) the truth from the Lord of you (all). Then whosoever will, let him believe, and whosoever will, let him disbelieve. Lo! We have prepared for disbelievers Fire. Its tent encloseth them. If they ask for showers, they will be showered with water like to molten lead which burneth the faces. Calamitous the drink and ill the resting-place!"

— M. Pickthall

(Surah Kahfi ; Ayat 29).

Water of Pus

“This person (the denizen of Hell) will be directed to drink water of pus. He will drink it draught by draught. He will get it down through his throat with great suffering and thus it would appear as if death was approaching him from all sides, yet he will not die. (Ibrahim). The inference is that while passing through many sufferings it would appear to the person that death was imminent yet there will be no “+: .th to wash out his sins and release him from everlasting punishment.

Boiling Water;

مَّثَلُ ٱلْجَنَّةِ ٱلَّتِى وُعِدَ ٱلْمُتَّقُونَ ۖ فِيهَآ أَنْهَـٰرٌۭ مِّن مَّآءٍ غَيْرِ ءَاسِنٍۢ وَأَنْهَـٰرٌۭ مِّن لَّبَنٍۢ لَّمْ يَتَغَيَّرْ طَعْمُهُۥ وَأَنْهَـٰرٌۭ مِّنْ خَمْرٍۢ لَّذَّةٍۢ لِّلشَّـٰرِبِينَ وَأَنْهَـٰرٌۭ مِّنْ عَسَلٍۢ مُّصَفًّۭى ۖ وَلَهُمْ فِيهَا مِن كُلِّ ٱلثَّمَرَٰتِ وَمَغْفِرَةٌۭ مِّن رَّبِّهِمْ ۖ كَمَنْ هُوَ خَـٰلِدٌۭ فِى ٱلنَّارِ وَسُقُوا۟ مَآءً حَمِيمًۭا فَقَطَّعَ أَمْعَآءَهُمْ١ ٥

‘“‘And the denizens of Hell shall be given to drink boiling water which will cut their intestines into pieces.”” 

A similitude of the Garden which those who keep their duty (to Allah) are promised: Therein are rivers of water unpolluted, and rivers of milk where of the flavour changeth not, and rivers of wine delicious to the drinkers, and rivers of clear-run honey; therein for them is every kind of fruit, with a pardon from their Lord. (Are those who enjoy all this) like those who are immortal in the Fire and are given boiling water to drink so that it teareth their bowels?

— M. Pickthall

(Surah Muhammad ; Ayat 15).