26 Preface جَزاءً وِفاقًاYusuf AliA fitting recompense (for them).1Their transgressions go on progressively as they refuse to repent and turn to God. The fire of misery begins to blaze forth more and more fiercely, and there is nothing to cool that blaze; their food and drink themselves are tainted with the disorder of contradictory elements?boiling hot drink, with intensely cold, murky, and disgusting fluids. These are fitting punishments for their crimes, which are inconsistent with the pure and gentle mould in which God had originally cast their nature.