Al-Muddaththir Verse 17

I will make his fate unbearable,

I will subject him to an unbearable punishment.

and I shall constrain him to a hard ascent.

I will inflict a spiralling torment on him.

Anon I shall afflict him with a fearful woe.

Soon will I visit him with a mount of calamities!

I shall soon constrain him to a hard ascent.

I shall inflict on him hardship,

Soon I shall mount him on Saood, the hill of fire.

Soon I will overwhelm him with hardship.

I will oblige him to a strenuous climb.

Rather I will inflict on him an increasingly overwhelming torment.

I will burden him (with) severity/hardship.

Soon I shall mount him on Saood, the hill of fire.

1 will impose on him a fearful doom.

I shall oblige him to (climb a slippery mountain in the Hell-fire called As-Sa'ud, or to) face a severe torment!

But may he be destroyed how he determined!

I will make a distressing punishment overtake him.

On him I shall impose a fearful doom.

We shall make him suffer the torment of hell without relief.

I will constrain him to a hard ascent.

I shall force him to Sa`ud!

I shall force him to endure a painful uphill climb!

I will exhaust him increasingly.

[Soon] I shall burden him with a trying chastisement; alternatively [sa`dan means] a mountain of fire which he will be made to ascend and then fall down from, forever.

I shall force him to Sa`ud!

Qatadah reported from Ibn `Abbas that he said,

"Sa`ud is a rock in Hell that the disbeliever will be dragged across on his face."

As-Suddi said,

"Sa`ud is a slippery rock in Hell that he will be forced to climb."

Mujahid said,
سَأُرْهِقُهُ صَعُودًا
I shall force him to Sa`ud!

"This is a harsh portion of the torment."

Qatadah said,

"It is a torment that contains no relaxation (break for relief)."

Concerning Allah's statement,

إِنَّهُ فَكَّرَ وَقَدَّر