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Buddhism's Erroneous Beliefs

skin, which will be continually replaced to burn yet again, as God de-

scribes in verse 4: 56, "Every time their skins are burned off, We will
replace them with new skins." They will be beaten with cudgels
made of iron and bound in "a chain which is seventy cubits long"
(Qur'an, 69: 32). Their foreheads, sides and backs will be branded
with the fire. Boiling water will be poured over their heads, and they

will be wearing shirts of tar.
The Qur'an also tells about the terrible food and drink reserved
for those in Hell. God announces in verse 69: 36 that they will have
"no food except exuding pus" to eat—which people in this world can
hardly stand. In the Hell they have entered for forgetting God and
pursuing their own passions in this life, they will be made to drink
boiling water mixed with pus. And because nothing will pass
through their torn throats, they will not be able to swallow. In Hell,

God will also make the sinners eat bitter thorny bush and zaqqum
(the infernal tree):
The Tree of az-Zaqqum is the food of the wicked, seething in the
belly like molten brass, as boiling water bubbles and seethes.
(Qur'an, 44: 43-45)

As for those who believe in God and turn to Him, they will not be
condemned to this state, but will pass through an easy accounting.
Because they did not follow vain philosophies and, in order to please
God and fearing the torments of Hell, lived according to the Qur'an,
they will receive their eternal reward and be welcomed in Paradise,
free from fear, sorrow and sadness. On that day, God says, the faces of
believers will be radiant. As God says in the Qur'an (39: 71-73):

The unbelievers 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

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