ذُوقُوا۟ فِتْنَتَكُمْ هَـٰذَا ٱلَّذِى كُنتُم بِهِۦ تَسْتَعْجِلُونَ 14
Translations
[And will be told], "Taste your torment. This is that for which you were impatient."
Transliteration
Dhooqoo fitnatakum haadha alladhee kuntum bihi tastajiloon
Tafsir (Explanation)
This ayah commands the inhabitants of Hell to taste their punishment—the very trial (fitnah) they eagerly sought and hastened towards in the worldly life. Classical scholars like Ibn Kathir and Al-Qurtubi interpret this as Allah's address to those who mocked the signs of Allah and demanded swift punishment, now experiencing the consequence of their arrogance and disbelief. The verse emphasizes the justice of divine retribution: they sought hastiness in rejecting truth, so they taste hastiness in torment.
Revelation Context
Surah Adh-Dhariyat addresses the realities of the Day of Judgment and the fate of believers and disbelievers. This ayah appears within a passage describing the punishment of those in Hell, providing stark contrast to the reward of the righteous mentioned earlier in the surah. It reflects the Meccan context where disbelievers were challenged about their denial of the afterlife.
Related Hadiths
The Prophet (ﷺ) said in Sahih Muslim: 'The least punishment of the people of Hell is that they will have shoes of fire from which their brains will boil.' This relates thematically to the tasting of punishment. Additionally, various hadiths about those who mocked Allah's messengers and demanded swift punishment (as mentioned in 8:32) connect to this ayah's theme.
Themes
Key Lesson
This ayah serves as a solemn reminder that mockery of divine signs and impatience with faith have eternal consequences; believers should maintain hope in Allah's mercy while fearing His justice, and recognize that hastening toward sin and rejection of truth ultimately leads to hastening toward torment.
Related Ayahs
وَقُلِ ٱلْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ سَيُرِيكُمْ ءَايَـٰتِهِۦ فَتَعْرِفُونَهَا ۚ وَمَا رَبُّكَ بِغَـٰفِلٍ عَمَّا تَعْمَلُونَ
And say, "[All] praise is [due] to Allāh. He will show you His signs, and you will recognize them. And your Lord is not unaware of what you do."
هَلْ يَنظُرُونَ إِلَّآ أَن تَأْتِيَهُمُ ٱلْمَلَـٰٓئِكَةُ أَوْ يَأْتِىَ رَبُّكَ أَوْ يَأْتِىَ بَعْضُ ءَايَـٰتِ رَبِّكَ ۗ يَوْمَ يَأْتِى بَعْضُ ءَايَـٰتِ رَبِّكَ لَا يَنفَعُ نَفْسًا إِيمَـٰنُهَا لَمْ تَكُنْ ءَامَنَتْ مِن قَبْلُ أَوْ كَسَبَتْ فِىٓ إِيمَـٰنِهَا خَيْرًا ۗ قُلِ ٱنتَظِرُوٓا۟ إِنَّا مُنتَظِرُونَ
Do they [then] wait for anything except that the angels should come to them or your Lord should come or that there come some of the signs of your Lord? The Day that some of the signs of your Lord will come no soul will benefit from its faith as long as it had not believed before or had earned through its faith some good. Say, "Wait. Indeed, we [also] are waiting."
وَمَا ظَلَمْنَـٰهُمْ وَلَـٰكِن ظَلَمُوٓا۟ أَنفُسَهُمْ ۖ فَمَآ أَغْنَتْ عَنْهُمْ ءَالِهَتُهُمُ ٱلَّتِى يَدْعُونَ مِن دُونِ ٱللَّهِ مِن شَىْءٍ لَّمَّا جَآءَ أَمْرُ رَبِّكَ ۖ وَمَا زَادُوهُمْ غَيْرَ تَتْبِيبٍ
And We did not wrong them, but they wronged themselves. And they were not availed at all by their gods which they invoked other than Allāh when there came the command of your Lord. And they did not increase them in other than ruin.
إِنَّا مُنزِلُونَ عَلَىٰٓ أَهْلِ هَـٰذِهِ ٱلْقَرْيَةِ رِجْزًا مِّنَ ٱلسَّمَآءِ بِمَا كَانُوا۟ يَفْسُقُونَ
Indeed, we will bring down on the people of this city punishment from the sky because they have been defiantly disobedient."