لَّيْسَ لَهُمْ طَعَامٌ إِلَّا مِن ضَرِيعٍ Qur’an Al-Ghashiyah (88:6)Laysa lahum t aAA a mun ill a min d areeAA in
The root-meaning implies again the idea of humiliation. It is a plant, bitter and thorny, loathsome in smell and appearance, which will neither give fattening nourishment to the body nor in any way satisfy the burning pangs of hunger,-a fit plant for Hell, like Zaqqum (lvi. 52; or xvii. 60, n. 2250).