Surah 55. Ar-Rahman, Ayah 44

For my rendering of hamim as "burning despair", see note [62] on the last sentence of 6:70 . The allegorical nature of all Qur'anic descriptions of "rewards" and "punishments" in the hereafter is clearly hinted at in the phrasing of the above verse, which speaks of the sinners' "wandering to and fro" between hell and burning despair (baynaha wa-bayna hamim) - i.e., tossed between factual suffering and the despair of vain regrets.

They will apparently have no rest. The fire will burn but not consume them, and their drink will be only boiling water.