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THE HELL

WHO WILL ENTER IT?
No indeed! Those who accumulate bad actions and are surrounded
by their mistakes, such people are the Companions of the Fire,
remaining in it timelessly, for ever. (Qur'an, 2:81)
Then you are the people who are killing one another and expelling
a group among you from their homes, ganging up against them in
wrongdoing and enmity. Yet if they are brought to you as captives,
you ransom them, when it was forbidden for you to expel them in
the first place! Do you, then, believe in one part of the Book and
reject the other? What repayment will there be for any of you who
do that except disgrace in this world? And on the Day of Rising,
they will be returned to the harshest of punishments. Allah is not
unaware of what you do. (Qur'an, 2:85)
Who could do greater wrong than someone who bars access to
the mosques of Allah, preventing His name from being
remembered in them, and goes about destroying them? Such
people will never be able to enter them— except in fear. They will
have disgrace in this world and in the hereafter they will have a
terrible punishment. (Qur'an, 2:114)
They will ask you about the Sacred Month and fighting in it. Say,
'Fighting in it is a serious matter; but barring access to the Way of
Allah and rejecting Him and barring access to the Masjid al-Haram
and expelling its people from it are far more serious in the sight
of Allah. Dissension is worse than killing.' They will not stop
fighting you until they make you revert from your religion, if they
are able. As for any of you who revert from their religion and die
while they are unbelievers, their actions will come to nothing in
this world and the hereafter. They are the Companions of the Fire,
remaining in it timelessly, for ever. (Qur'an, 2:217)

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