Generally Accepted Translations of the Meaning
Muhammad Asad
between it and [their own] burning-hot despair will they wander to and fro
M. M. Pickthall
They go circling round between it and fierce, boiling water
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
In its midst and in the midst of boiling hot water will they wander round
The Clear Quran, Dr. Mustafa Khattab
They will alternate between its flames and scalding water.
Safi Kaskas
They will circulate them between fire and scalding water.
Wahiduddin Khan
They will go round between its flames and boiling water
Shakir
Round about shall they go between it and hot, boiling water
Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar
They will go around between it and between scalding boiling water!
T.B.Irving
They will circle around between it and a seething bath.
Abdul Hye
They will go around between it (hell) and the boiling hot water.
The Study Quran
to and fro shall they pass, between it and boiling waters
Talal Itani & AI (2024)
They will circulate between it and a seething bath.
Talal Itani (2012)
They circulate between it and between a seething bath
Dr. Kamal Omar
They will move between it and between hot water — violently boiling
They shall wander to and fro between fire and hot boiling water
Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali
They go round between it and between duly boiling (Or: hot) scalding water
Muhammad Sarwar
They will run around in blazing fire and boiling water
Muhammad Taqi Usmani
They will circle around between it and between hot, boiling water
Shabbir Ahmed
They wander between it and their smoldering anguish
Dr. Munir Munshey
To and fro, they would rotate between it and the (fiercely) hot water
Syed Vickar Ahamed
In the middle, and (yes) in the middle of boiling hot water will they float around
They will go around between it and scalding water, heated [to the utmost degree]
[The Monotheist Group] (2011 Edition)
They will move between it and a boiling liquid
Abdel Haleem
but they will go round between its flames and scalding water
Abdul Majid Daryabadi
Going round between it and balling water fierce
Ahmed Ali
They will go round and around between it and boiling water
Aisha Bewley
They will go back and forth between fire and scalding water.
Ali Ünal
They will go round between it(s fire) and hot, boiling water
Ali Quli Qara'i
They shall circuit between it and boiling hot water
Hamid S. Aziz
They go circling between it and hot, boiling water
Ali Bakhtiari Nejad
They go around between it (its flames) and between hot boiling water.
A.L. Bilal Muhammad et al (2018)
In it and in boiling hot water which they will wander round
Musharraf Hussain
Here they will wander aimlessly between Hell and cauldrons of boiling water.
Maududi
They will keep circling around between Hell and boiling water
[The Monotheist Group] (2013 Edition)
They will move between it and a boiling liquid.
Mohammad Shafi
They wander to and fro between it [burning hot flame] and burning-hot water
Controversial or status undetermined works
Ahmed Raza Khan (Barelvi)
They will go round between it and fierce boiling water.
They will circulate between it and an intolerable inferno.
Hasan Al-Fatih Qaribullah
they shall go round between it, and between a hot, boiling water
Maulana Muhammad Ali
Round about shall they go between it and hot, boiling water
Muhammad Ahmed & Samira
They circle/walk around between it and between hot water/cold water/red hot coal blazing/glowing
Bijan Moeinian
They will circulate around it and be thrown into the Fire
Faridul Haque
They shall keep going back and forth between it and the extremely hot boiling water
Sher Ali
`Between it and the fierce boiling water will they go round.
Dr. Mohammad Tahir-ul-Qadri
They will move about in that (Hell) and in the boiling hot water
Amatul Rahman Omar
`They will take turns (restlessly) between it (- the hell-fire) and boiling hot liquid.
Muhsin Khan & Muhammad al-Hilali
They will go between it (Hell) and the boiling hot water
New, Partial, or In Progress Translations
Fode Drame
They take turns between it [the hellfire] and a scalding boiling water.
Munir Mezyed
They will be (compelled to) go round between it and between scalding boiling water.
Sahib Mustaqim Bleher
They will move between it and boiling water.
Linda “iLHam” Barto
They will wander in its midst and in the midst of boiling, scalding water.
Fadel Soliman, Bridges‘ Translation
they circulate between it and an intensely scalding water.
Irving & Mohamed Hegab
They will circle around between it and a seething bath.
Samy Mahdy
They circumambulate between it and between scalding water, boiling.
Ahmed Hulusi
They will go around between it and boiling water (the burning value judgments brought by their conditionings).
Mir Aneesuddin
they will go round between it and between hot boiling water.
They shall be perambulated back and forth between it, with its infernal hiss and crackle of the mountainous flames, and the infernal boileries which avenge wrong and punish crime
The Wise Quran
They will go round between it and hot, boiling water.