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hereafter. He has prepared a humiliating punish- And those who have fear of their Lord will be
ment for them. (33:57) driven to the Garden in companies and when they
They are an accursed people. Wherever they are arrive there, finding its gates open, its custodians
found they should be seized and mercilessly put will say to them, ‘Peace be upon you! You have
to death. (33:61) done well so enter it timelessly, for ever.’ (39:73)
Allah has cursed the disbelievers and prepared a Those in the Fire will say to the custodians of Hell,
Searing Blaze for them. (33:64) ‘Call on your Lord to make the punishment less for
And they (the disbelievers) will say, ‘Our Lord, us for just one day.’ (40:49)
we obeyed our masters and great men and they It all but bursts with rage. Each time a group is
misguided us from the Way. Our Lord, give them flung into it its custodians will question them: ‘Did
double the punishment and curse them many no warner come to you?’ (67:8)
times over!’ (33:67-68)
(Allah said to Satan,) ‘My curse is upon you until
the Day of Reckoning.’ (38:78)
(On) the Day when the excuses of the wrongdo-
ers will not help them. The curse will be on them
and they will have the most evil Home. (40:52)
Such are the people Allah has cursed, making
them deaf and blinding their eyes. (47:23)
And so that He might punish the men and
women of the hypocrites and the men and
women of the idolaters–those who think bad
thoughts about Allah. They will suffer an evil turn
of fate. Allah is angry with them, and has cursed
them and prepared Hell for them. What an evil
destination! (48:6)

CUSHION
(In the Garden are) lined-up cushions... (88:15)
It is He Who created you from earth, then from a
drop of sperm, then from a clot of blood, then He
brings you out as infants, then so you may
achieve full strength, then so you may become
old men–though some of you may die before that
time–so that you may reach a predetermined age
and so that hopefully you will use your intellect.
(40:67)

CUSTODIAN
Those who disbelieve 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 your Lord’s Signs to you and warning you
of the meeting on this Day of yours?’ They will say,
‘Indeed they did, but the decree of punishment is
justly carried out against the disbelievers.’ (39:71)
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