Shahiq

For those who reject Their Lord and Cherished is the Penalty of Hell. And evil is (such) destination. When they are cast therein they will hear the terrible drawing in of its breath. Even as it blazes forth.(Quran: 67 6-7)

The term used is means (sobs) was contrasted with zafir (sighs). in the one case it is the drawing in of breath and in the other the emission of a deep breath. Here the latter process is represented by the verb fara, to swell, to blaze forth, to gush forth. fara was applied to the gushing forth of the waters of the Flood: here the verb is applied to the blazing forth of the Fire of Punishment. Fire is personified: in its intake it has a fierce appetite: in the flames which it throws out it has a fierce aggressiveness. And yet in ultimate result evil meets the same fate whether typified by water or fire. (Abdullah Yusuf Ali)

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When I read this surah. ayah, i kept asking myself what it mean that those who rejected faith will be thrown into hell and than will hear the drawign of its breath and fire blazing. In the word for word translation it translated that it will be as though it is inhaling and as though it is boiling. While making a recipe gone severly wrong, a part of me looked at this (refer to video underneath) and as I watched it, it seems as though it was inhaling deeply, and than as though boiling and blazing up. Is this what it must look like? shahiq? except that it would be the fire of hell? (lava?) Except that it would be the hottest of all fires and it would be burning. But just imagine. Looking at the boiling almost inhaling personification (recipe gone wrong) it made me think this is probably what it must look like. personified.