Overall meaning : As for the Companions of the Left Hand, how miserable the Companions of the Left Hand will be! They will be amidst scorching winds and scalding water, and in the shade of pitch-black smoke that is neither cool nor pleasant to look at. They will suffer such fate because, before that in the life of the world, they were indulged in luxury, totally abandoning themselves to the pursuit of their pleasures, persisted in disbelieving in Allah and associating partners with Him and denied the resurrection, mockingly saying, ‘What! When we are dead and turned to dust and bones, are we really to come forth from our graves alive again? Will our forefathers also be raised with us?’
Say, Muhammad, to those who deny the resurrection, ‘Both the first and the last of all mankind will surely be gathered together to judgment at the time of on an appointed day.’
Then as for you who have strayed from the path of truth and who deny the resurrection, you will surely eat of the bitter, stinking fruit of the Tree of Az-Zaqqum and will fill your bellies with it. On top of that, you will drink intensely boiling water, and you will drink it like insatiably thirsty camels drink, due to an illness that makes them always thirsty. Such food and drink will be prepared as a welcome meal for these misguided unbelievers on the Day of Resurrection.