Surah 78:21–25 describes Hell as a place of ambush where the rebellious will tarry for ages:
Surah 78:21–25:
"They will not taste therein coolness or drink, except scalding water and intense cold an appropriate recompense."
While the Bible uses vivid imagery to describe the reality of judgment (such as separation from God and outer darkness), the Quran routinely fixates on the graphic, visceral mechanics of bodily torture—such as drinking boiling pus and having skin melted off and replaced. Polemicists argue that this heavy reliance on physical terrorism in the shorter Meccan Surahs highlights a rhetorical strategy designed to scare an uneducated audience into submission when logical or miraculous evidence of prophethood was lacking.