Generally Accepted Translations of the Meaning
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| Muhammad Asad | | only burning despair and ice-cold darkness |  |
M. M. Pickthall | | Save boiling water and a paralysing cold | |
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985) | | Save a boiling fluid and a fluid, dark, murky, intensely cold | |
Shakir | | But boiling and intensely cold water | |
Wahiduddin Khan | | save boiling water and a stinking flui | |
| Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar | | but scalding water and filth, | |
| T.B.Irving | | except hot bathwater and slops, | |
| The Clear Quran, Dr. Mustafa Khattab | | except boiling water and ˹oozing˺ pus— | |
| Safi Kaskas | | except for boiling water and sizzling pus. | |
| Abdul Hye | | except boiling water and pus (dirty wound discharges): | |
| The Study Quran | | save boiling liquid and a cold, murky fluid | |
[The Monotheist Group] (2011 Edition) | | Except for boiling water and filthy discharge | |
Abdel Haleem | | except one that is scalding and dark–&ndash | |
Abdul Majid Daryabadi | | Save scalding water and corruption | |
Ahmed Ali | | Except boiling water and benumbing cold | |
Aisha Bewley | | except for boiling water and scalding pus — | |
Ali Ünal | | Except boiling water and pus | |
Ali Quli Qara'i | | except boiling water and pu | |
Hamid S. Aziz | | But boiling and intensely cold water | |
Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali | | Except scalding water and (overflowing) pus | |
Muhammad Sarwar | | except boiling water and pus | |
Muhammad Taqi Usmani | | except boiling water and pus | |
Shabbir Ahmed | | Only burning anguish and ice-cold darkness. (38:37) | |
Syed Vickar Ahamed | | Save a boiling fluid and a fluid, dark, grim, bitterly cold&mdash | |
Umm Muhammad (Sahih International) | | Except scalding water and [foul] purulence | |
Farook Malik | | except scalding water and decaying filth | |
| Dr. Munir Munshey | | (They will drink) only boiling-hot water, and pus (from wounds) | |
| Dr. Kamal Omar | | except boiling water and a dark, murky, stinhead of state liquid — | |
| Talal A. Itani (new translation) | | Except boiling water, and freezing hail | |
Maududi | | save boiling water and wash of the wounds | |
| Ali Bakhtiari Nejad | | except boiling water and pus | |
| A.L. Bilal Muhammad et al (2018) | | Except a boiling fluid, and a fluid dark, murky, intensely cold | |
| Musharraf Hussain | | except boiling water and a dark foul fluid; | |
[The Monotheist Group] (2013 Edition) | | Except that which is boiling and dark. | |
| Mohammad Shafi | | But boiling water and a pus-like thing | |
Controversial, deprecated, or status undetermined works
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Bijan Moeinian | | The only thing that they will taste is a boiling drink and a dark murky extremely cold fluid | |
| Faridul Haque | | Except hot boiling water and hot pus discharged from the people of hell | |
| Hasan Al-Fatih Qaribullah | | except boiling water and pu | |
Maulana Muhammad Ali | | But boiling and intensely cold water | |
| Muhammad Ahmed - Samira | | Except hot water/sweat and decayed/rotten | |
Sher Ali | | Save boiling water and a stinking fluid, intensely cold | |
Rashad Khalifa | | Only an inferno, and bitter food | |
| Ahmed Raza Khan (Barelvi) | | But boiling water and a burning yellow liquid of the people of Hell. | |
Amatul Rahman Omar | | All that they shall have will be boiling water or stinking fluid as a recompense | |
Dr. Mohammad Tahir-ul-Qadri | | Except boiling water and suppurated fluid oozing (from the wounds of the inmates of Hell) | |
Muhsin Khan & Muhammad al-Hilali | | Except boiling water, and dirty wound discharges | |
New and/or Partial Translations, and works in progress
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| Linda “iLHam” Barto | | …except scalding water, and paralyzing cold [like freezer burn]. | |
| Sayyid Qutb | | except boiling fluid and decaying filth: | |
| Ahmed Hulusi | | Only boiling water and pus! | |
| Torres Al Haneef (partial translation) | | "except boiling water and filthy fluids [such as the sweat, tear, and pus of the people of Hell]:" | |
| Sayyed Abbas Sadr-Ameli | | Except a boiling fluid and pu | |
| Al-muntakhab fi tafsir al-Qur'an al-Karim | | But only boiling water and their rotten discharges for doing their worst | |
| Mir Aneesuddin | | except boiling water and pus*, * Dirty liquid that oozes out of wounds. | |
