Al-Ma'arij Verse 16

ripping off scalps.

that will strip off the scalps.

snatching away the scalp,

that strips away the skin,

Flaying off the scalp-skin.

Plucking out (his being) right to the skull!-

that will strip off the scalp.

That would skin the scalp.

A fire that melts the hide.

which strips away the scalp.

Tearing away the skin.

Stripping off the skin even to the extremities (of the human body).

Pulling away/removing to the extremities/outer layer of skin

A fire that melts the hide.

Dragging him right to his skull

Taking away (burning completely) the head skin!

And hoards then withholds.

Dragging by the head,

Eager to roast;

will strip-off the flesh

It snatches away by the scalps,

Nazza`ah the Shawa!

stripping away his skin,

It strips away the scalps.

ripping out the scalp (shaw is the plural of shawt, the skin of the head);

Nazza`ah the Shawa!

Ibn `Abbas and Mujahid both said,

"It is the skin of the head."

Al-Hasan Al-Basri and Thabit Al-Bunani both said,

"This means respectable parts of the face."

Qatadah said,
نَزَّاعَةً لِّلشَّوَى
(Nazza`ahthe Shawa!)

"This means removing his important organs, and the respectable parts of his face, his creation and his limbs."

Ad-Dahhak said,

"This means it will scrape the flesh and the skin off of the bone until it leaves nothing of it remaining."

Ibn Zayd said, "The
لِّلشَّوَى
Shawa is the marrow of the bones."

As for,
نَزَّاعَةًNazza`ah Ibn Zayd said,

"It is cutting their bones and transformation of their skins and their form."

Concerning Allah's statement,

تَدْعُو مَنْ أَدْبَرَ وَتَوَلَّى

The Fire which, with its infernal hiss and crackle, shall burn into his inmost being, but reserves both his physical and mental feeling for the realization of pain and distress which will not abate nor expire