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THE PAINS OF THE FALSE WORLD

Only in the Hereafter will they realize the ultimate hol-
lowness of the efforts they expended in this world. In return
for their rejection of Allah in this world, they will encounter
bitter suffering in the next. This is such a horrendous torment
that they will happily give up all that was dear to them in this
world to be freed from it: their families, their friends, the go-
ods they were so deeply attached to and which they sought to
add to by working day and night. Allah has revealed the situ-

ation of the unbelievers in the Hereafter:
If every self that did wrong possessed everything on
Earth, it would offer it as a ransom. They will show re -
morse when they see the punishment. Everything will
be decided between them justly. They will not be wron -
ged. (Surah Yunus, 54)
If those who did wrong owned everything on Earth, and
the same again with it, they would offer it as a ransom to
save themselves from the evil of the punishment on the
Day of Resurrection. What confronts them from Allah
will be something they did not reckon with. (Surat az-Zu-
m a r, 47)

... They can see each other. An evildoer will wish he co -
uld ransom himself from the punishment of that Day,
by means of his sons, or his wife or his brother or his fa -
mily who sheltered him or everyone else on Earth, if
that only meant that he could save himself. But no! It is
a Raging Blaze... (Surat al-Ma'arij, 11-15)
It is those who have faith and who live for the good ple-

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