What is meant by "a hot spring" in the saying of Allah the Exalted: "Until, when he reached the setting of the sun, he found it setting in a hot spring"?
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Question:
The questioner, regarding the saying of Allah the Exalted:[Al-Kahf 18:86], asks: What is meant by the hot spring?
Answer:
The hot spring of mud is the stinking mud. Stinking mud is called *ham'. Adam (peace be upon him) was created from *ham' masnun (dried mud). So *ham' is the stinking mud from water. Yes.
The questioner, regarding the saying of Allah the Exalted:
Until, when he reached the setting of the sun, he found it [as if] setting in a spring of dark mud
حَتَّىٰ إِذَا بَلَغَ مَغْرِبَ الشَّمْسِ وَجَدَهَا تَغْرُبُ فِي عَيْنٍ حَمِئَةٍAnswer:
The hot spring of mud is the stinking mud. Stinking mud is called *ham'. Adam (peace be upon him) was created from *ham' masnun (dried mud). So *ham' is the stinking mud from water. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [2566- 4717] ما المراد بالعين الحمئة في قوله تعالى:﴿حتى إذا بلغ مغرب الشمس وجدها تغرب في عين حمئة﴾؟ — youtube.com
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