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THEY WILL WANT TO RETURN TO THE LIFE
            OF THIS WORLD TO ESCAPE FROM HELL
            AND PERFORM  GOOD DEEDS
            They will shout out in it, 'Our Lord! Take us out! We will act rightly,
            differently from the way we used to act!' Did We not let you live
            long enough for anyone who was going to pay heed to pay heed?
            And did not the warner come to you? Taste it then! There is no
            helper for the wrongdoers. (Qur'an, 35:37)


            THEY WILL CALL FOR DESTRUCTION
            When they are flung into a narrow place in it, shackled together
            in chains, they will cry out there for destruction. 'Do not cry out
            today for just one destruction, cry out for many destructions!'
            (Qur'an, 25:13-14)
            They will call out (to the custodian of the Hell), 'Malik, let your
            Lord put an end to us!' He will say, 'You will stay the way you
            are.' We brought you the truth but most of you hated the truth.
            (Qur'an, 43:77-78)
            We have warned you of an imminent punishment on the Day when
            a man will see what he has done, and the unbeliever will say, 'Oh,
            if only I were dust!' (Qur'an, 78:40)

            THEY WILL DISPUTE WITH EACH OTHER
            He will say, 'Enter the Fire together with the nations of jinn and
            men who have passed away before you.' Each time a nation enters,
            it will curse its sister nation, until, when they are all gathered
            together in it, the last of them will say to the first, 'Our Lord, those
            are the ones who misguided us, so give them a double punishment
            in the Fire.' He will say, 'Each will receive double. But you do not
            know it.' (Qur'an, 7:38)




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