Page 61 - The Importance of Following the Good Word

Those who do not answer the call of messengers and be-
lievers, and insist on disbelief, will fall into great despair on
the Day of Judgment. However, this despondency of theirs is
not comparable to any such misery they will know in this
world; it will be utterly unbearable. There is always a way
out from difficulties and problems faced in this world; ulti-
mately, the severest hardship and suffering is merely tempo-
rary. However, for those disbelievers who will taste the eternal
punishment of the Hereafter, there will be no way out, or even
the dimmest hope of salvation.
After having been questioned in Allah's presence, those
who turned their faces from warnings made in this world, and
failed to take advantage of their opportunity to have become a
beloved servant of Allah, will be sent to Hell, a place of eternal
punishment. As the verse informs us, before they enter Hell,
fear will seize the hearts of disbelivers when they see the ex-
tent of punishment they will suffer. Once they are cast into the
fire, they will converse with its custodians as is described here:
When they are flung into it they will hear it gasping
harshly as it seethes.
It all but bursts with rage. Each time a group is flung
into it its custodians will question them: "Did no
warner come to you?"
They will say, "Yes indeed, a warner did come to us but
we denied him and said, 'Allah has sent nothing
down.You are just greatly misguided.' "
They will say, "If only we had really listened and used
our intellect, we would not have been Companions of
the Blaze."

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