Page 346 - Learning from the Qur'an

Is that better by way of hospitality or the tree of Zaqqum which
We have made to be an ordeal for the wrongdoers? It is a tree that
emerges in the depths of the Blazing Fire. Its fruits are just like
the heads of satans. (Qur'an, 37:62-65)
Will eat from the tree of Zaqqum, filling your stomachs with it.
(Qur'an, 56:52-53)
And food that chokes and a painful punishment. (Qur'an, 73:13)
They have no food but a bitter thorny bush which neither
nourishes nor satisfies. (Qur'an, 88:6-7)

ALLAH DOES NOT SPEAK TO THEM
Those who sell Allah's contract and their own oaths for a paltry
price, such people will have no portion in the hereafter and on
the Day of Rising. Allah will not speak to them or look at them or
purify them. They will have a painful punishment. (Qur'an, 3:77)
He will say, 'Slink away into it and do not speak to Me. (Qur'an,
23:108)

THEY WILL BE HUMILIATED AND DISGRACED
Our Lord, those You cast into the Fire, You have indeed disgraced.
The wrongdoers will have no helpers. (Qur'an, 3:192)

THEY WILL ASK FOR WATER AND
PROVISIONS FROM THOSE IN THE GARDEN
The Companions of the Fire will call out to the Companions of
the Garden, 'Throw down some water to us or some of what Allah
has given you as provision.' They will say, 'Allah has forbidden
them to the unbelievers. (Qur'an, 7:50)

THERE THEY WILL ACKNOWLEDGE
THEIR WRONG ACTIONS
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

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