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Muhammad Asad   
only burning despair and ice-cold darkness
The Clear Quran, Dr. Mustafa Khattab   
except boiling water and ˹oozing˺ pus—
Safi Kaskas   
except for boiling water and sizzling pus.

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Arabic   
إِلَّا حَمِیمࣰا وَغَسَّاقࣰا ۝٢٥
Transliteration (2021)   
illā ḥamīman waghassāqa
Word for Word
Dr. Shehnaz Shaikh, Ms. Kauser Katri, and more
  
Except scalding water and purulence,

Generally Accepted Translations of the Meaning
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
The Clear Quran, Dr. Mustafa Khattab   
except boiling water and ˹oozing˺ pus—
Safi Kaskas   
except for boiling water and sizzling pus.
Wahiduddin Khan   
save boiling water and a stinking flui
Shakir   
But boiling and intensely cold water
Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar   
but scalding water and filth,
T.B.Irving   
except hot bathwater and slops,
Abdul Hye   
except boiling water and pus (dirty wound discharges):
The Study Quran   
save boiling liquid and a cold, murky fluid
Talal Itani & AI (2024)   
Except boiling water and freezing cold hail.
Talal Itani (2012)   
Except boiling water, and freezing hail
Dr. Kamal Omar   
except boiling water and a dark, murky, stinhead of state liquid —
M. Farook Malik   
except scalding water and decaying filth
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)
Dr. Munir Munshey   
(They will drink) only boiling-hot water, and pus (from wounds)
Syed Vickar Ahamed   
Save a boiling fluid and a fluid, dark, grim, bitterly cold—
Umm Muhammad (Sahih International)   
Except scalding water and [foul] purulence
[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
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;
Maududi   
save boiling water and wash of the wounds
[The Monotheist Group] (2013 Edition)   
Except that which is boiling and dark.
Mohammad Shafi   
But boiling water and a pus-like thing

Controversial or status undetermined works
Ahmed Raza Khan (Barelvi)   
But boiling water and a burning yellow liquid of the people of Hell.
Rashad Khalifa   
Only an inferno, and bitter food
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
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
Sher Ali   
Save boiling water and a stinking fluid, intensely cold
Dr. Mohammad Tahir-ul-Qadri   
Except boiling water and suppurated fluid oozing (from the wounds of the inmates of Hell)
Amatul Rahman Omar   
All that they shall have will be boiling water or stinking fluid as a recompense
Muhsin Khan & Muhammad al-Hilali   
Except boiling water, and dirty wound discharges

Non-Muslim and/or Orientalist works
Arthur John Arberry   
save boiling water and pu
George Sale   
except boiling water, and filthy corruption
Edward Henry Palmer   
but only boiling water and pus;
John Medows Rodwell   
Save boiling water and running sores
N J Dawood (2014)   
save scalding water and decaying filth

New, Partial, or In Progress Translations
Fode Drame   
Except boiling water and puss.
Munir Mezyed   
Except scalding water and purulence:
Sahib Mustaqim Bleher   
Except boiling water and freezing liquid.
Linda “iLHam” Barto   
…except scalding water, and paralyzing cold [like freezer burn].
Fadel Soliman, Bridges‘ Translation   
except scalding water and purulence—
Irving & Mohamed Hegab   
except hot bathwater and slops,
Samy Mahdy   
Except scalding water, and purulence.
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.

Obsolete and/or older editions
Yusuf Ali (Orig. 1938)   
Save a boiling fluid and a fluid, dark, murky, intensely cold
OLD Literal Word for Word   
Except scalding water and purulence
OLD Transliteration   
Illa hameeman waghassaqan