The Cave
IN THE NAME OF GOD, THE MOST GRACIOUS, THE DISPENSER OF GRACE[18:29]
And say: "The truth [has now come] from your Sustainer: let, then, him who wills, believe in it, and let him who wills, reject it."
Verily, for all who sin against themselves [by rejecting Our truth] We have readied a fire whose billowing folds will encompass them from all sides; and if they beg for water, they will be given water [hot] like molten lead, which will scald their faces: how dreadful a drink, and how evil a place to rest!

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* v.29 : Thus Rāzī explains the expression az-zālimūn (lit., “the evildoers”) in the above context.
* The expression surādiq – rendered by me as “billowing folds” – literally denotes an awning or the outer covering of a tent, and alludes here to the billowing “walls of smoke” that will surround the sinners (Zamakhsharī): a symbolism meant to stress the inescapability of their suffering in the hereafter (Rāzī).