This ayah presents a severe image of punishment: not simply tasting from the tree, but being compelled to fill the stomach from it. The wording intensifies the scene by showing necessity, hunger, and compulsion.
This ayah heightens the punishment by showing that only a token amount will not suffice. It is not like a minimal morsel that would be enough for someone merely trying to discharge an oath. Rather, they will be made to fill their bellies from it.
A taste of Zaqqoom will not be enough. The image is one of total filling: the punishment is amplified by the fact that the stomach is filled with that from which one would recoil.
The ayah’s force lies in necessity. This is not voluntary enjoyment, but an imposed filling of the belly. The language presents an experience of pressure, helplessness, and consequence.
Their bellies will be filled from it due to the severity of hunger. This hunger compels them and forces them to consume something like this, from that which is not eaten as food.
This scene stands in contrast with the people of Jannah, who will eat and drink as much as they wish without discomfort or negative repercussions. Their experience is one of ease and freedom.
Here, eating is not delightful abundance. It is filling under compulsion, under hunger, and with painful consequence. The contrast makes the warning sharper and the scene more vivid.
The Mutrafeen were overindulgent in worldly consumption of all kinds. In the Hereafter, that pattern is reversed into humiliation and punishment: they are compelled to fill their bellies with Zaqqoom because of hunger.
The ayah intensifies punishment by showing fullness of the stomach, not mere contact or taste.
This is compelled consumption, not willing enjoyment.
Severe hunger is the force that drives them to consume what is not eaten as food.
A tiny amount would not capture the warning; the ayah deliberately presents a much harsher image.
The contrast with the people of Jannah reveals a profound difference between ease without harm and forced filling with suffering.
The mention of the Mutrafeen links worldly excess with a fitting reversal in the Hereafter.