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to you what the Shatterer is? The kindled Fire of Allah reaching right
into the heart. It is sealed in above them. In towering columns. (Surat
al-Humaza, 4-9)
The Arrogant Will Enter Hell Abjectly
Your Lord says, 'Call on Me and I will answer you.Those who are too
proud to worship Me will enter Hell abject.' (Surah Ghafir, 60)
Those who disbelieve will be driven to Hell in companies and when
they arrive there and its gates are opened its custodians will say to
them, 'Did Messengers from yourselves not come to you, reciting your
Lord's Signs to you and warning you of the meeting on this Day of
yours?' They will say, 'Indeed they did, but the decree of punishment
is justly carried out against the disbelievers.' They will be told, 'Enter
the gates of Hell and stay there timelessly, for ever. How evil is the
abode of the arrogant!' (Surat az-Zumar, 71-72)

Disbelievers Will Argue With One Another
He will say, 'Enter the Fire together with the nations of jinn and
men who have passed away before you.' Each time a nation enters, it
will curse its sister nation, until, when they are all gathered together
in it, the last of them will say to the first, 'Our Lord, those are the
ones who misguided us, so give them a double punishment in the
Fire.' He will say, 'Each will receive double. But you do not know it.'
(Surat al-A'raf, 38)
This! A crowd hurtling in with you. There is no welcome for them.
They will certainly roast in the Fire. They will say, 'No, it is you who
have no welcome. It is you who brought it upon us. What an evil place
to settle!' They will say, 'Our Lord, give him who brought this on us
double the punishment in the Fire!' They will say, 'How is it that we do
not see some men whom we used to count among the worst of people?
Did we turn them into figures of fun? Did our eyes disdain to look at
them?' All this is certainly true – the bickering of the people of the Fire.
(Surah Sâd, 59-64)
Arguing in it with one another, they will say, 'By Allah, we were
plainly misguided when We equated you with the Lord of all the
worlds. It was only the evildoers who misguided us and now we have