Surah 40:74
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أَلَمۡ تَرَ إِلَى ٱلَّذِينَ يُجَٰدِلُونَ فِيٓ ءَايَٰتِ ٱللَّهِ أَنَّىٰ يُصۡرَفُونَ
Do you not see those who dispute about the signs of God? How they are turned away?
ٱلَّذِينَ كَذَّبُواْ بِٱلۡكِتَٰبِ وَبِمَآ أَرۡسَلۡنَا بِهِۦ رُسُلَنَاۖ فَسَوۡفَ يَعۡلَمُونَ
– Those who call the Book a lie and what We sent Our messengers with? Soon they will know!
إِذِ ٱلۡأَغۡلَٰلُ فِيٓ أَعۡنَٰقِهِمۡ وَٱلسَّلَٰسِلُ يُسۡحَبُونَ
– When (there are) chains on their necks, and they are dragged (by) chains
فِي ٱلۡحَمِيمِ ثُمَّ فِي ٱلنَّارِ يُسۡجَرُونَ
into the boiling (water), (and) then they are poured into the Fire.
ثُمَّ قِيلَ لَهُمۡ أَيۡنَ مَا كُنتُمۡ تُشۡرِكُونَ
Then it will be said to them, ‘Where is what you used to associate,
مِن دُونِ ٱللَّهِۖ قَالُواْ ضَلُّواْ عَنَّا بَل لَّمۡ نَكُن نَّدۡعُواْ مِن قَبۡلُ شَيۡـٔٗاۚ كَذَٰلِكَ يُضِلُّ ٱللَّهُ ٱلۡكَٰفِرِينَ
instead of God?’ They will say, ‘They have abandoned us. No! We were not calling on anything before!’ In this way God leads the disbelievers astray.
ذَٰلِكُم بِمَا كُنتُمۡ تَفۡرَحُونَ فِي ٱلۡأَرۡضِ بِغَيۡرِ ٱلۡحَقِّ وَبِمَا كُنتُمۡ تَمۡرَحُونَ
‘That is because you gloated on the earth without any right, and because you were jubilant.
ٱدۡخُلُوٓاْ أَبۡوَٰبَ جَهَنَّمَ خَٰلِدِينَ فِيهَاۖ فَبِئۡسَ مَثۡوَى ٱلۡمُتَكَبِّرِينَ
Enter the gates of Gehenna, there to remain.’ Evil is the dwelling place of the arrogant!
{between it and the fierce boiling water!} [55:43-44].
After describing how they will eat Zaqqum (a bitter tree of Hell) and drink Hamim (boiling water), Allah says:
And Allah says:
{And those on the Left Hand - how (unfortunate) will be those on the Left Hand? In fierce hot wind and boiling water, and shadow of black smoke, (that shadow) neither cool nor (even) pleasant.} until
"[Verily, the tree of Zaqqum will be the food of the sinners. Like boiling oil, it will boil in the bellies, like the boiling of scalding water. (It will be said:) "Seize him and drag him into the midst of blazing Fire, then pour over his head the torment of boiling water. Taste you (this)! Verily, you were (pretending to be) the mighty, the generous! Verily, this is that whereof you used to doubt!"](quran/44/43-50)"
i.e., this will be said to them to rebuke and ridicule them.
means, it will be said to them, "where are the idols whom you used to worship instead of Allah? Can they help you today?'
{They will say: "They have vanished from us..."} mean, they have gone away and they cannot do anything for us.'
means, they will deny that they worshipped them. This is like the Ayah:
Allah says:
"That was because you had been exulting in the earth without any right, and that you used to rejoice extremely."
means, the angels will say to them, "what you are suffering now is your recompense for your exulting in the earth without any right, and for your extravagance.'
means, what a terrible abode and final destination, filled with humiliation and severe punishment for those who arrogantly ignored the signs of Allah and refused to accept His proof and evidence. And Allah knows best.
— from Tafsir Ibn Kathir (Vol. 8, Page 503-504)