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The Concept of Punishment in the Qur'an 207

PUNISHMENT IN THE WORLD

They Suffer Misfortunes in the World
Do they not see that they are tried once or twice in every year? But
still they do not turn back. They do not pay heed. (Surat at-Tawba, 126)
So a visitation from your Lord came upon it while they slept. (Surat
al-Qalam, 19)
They are in Anguish
You who believe! Do not be like those who disbelieve and say of
their brothers, when they are going on journeys or military expedi-
tions, 'If they had only been with us, they would not have died or been
killed,' so that Allah can make that anguish for them in their hearts. It
is Allah Who gives life and causes to die. Allah sees what you do.
(Surah Al 'Imran, 156)
Those who followed will say, 'If only we could have another chance,
we would disown them just as they have disowned us.' In that way
Allah will show them their actions as a cause of anguish and remorse
for them. They will never emerge from the Fire. (Surat al-Baqara, 167)
They are Wretched and Miserable
On the Day it comes, no self will speak except by His permission.
Some of them will be wretched and others glad. (Surah Hud, 105)
The Companions of the Left: how wretched the Companions of the
Left? (Surat al-Waqi'a, 9)
But the most miserable will shun it, those who will roast in the
Greatest Fire. (Surat al-A'la, 11-12)
I have warned you of a Fire which rages, in which only the most
wretched will roast. (Surat al-Layl, 14-15)
Their Breasts are Strait and Narrow, and They are Defiled
When Allah desires to guide someone, He expands his breast to
Islam. When He desires to misguide someone, He makes his breast
narrow and constricted as if he were climbing up into the sky. That is
how Allah defiles those who do not believe. (Surat al-An'am, 125)
... Then He turned towards them – He is All-Gentle, Most Merciful to
them – and also towards the three who were left behind, so that when
the earth became narrow for them, for all its great breadth, and their