"Then pour over his head the torment of scalding water."
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Tafseer
'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī
تفسير : then pour upon his head the torment of boiling water) after he is beaten with iron skewers.
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī
تفسير : then pour over his head the torture of boiling water!’, that is to say, the boiling water which is ever-torturous (this [use of ‘the torture of boiling water’] is rhetorically more intense than what is stated by the verse: boiling water will be poured over their heads [q. 22:19]).