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Accordingly We have revealed to you an Arabic The Day they are shoved roughly into the Fire of
Qur’an so that you may warn the Mother of Hell: (the deniers will be told,) ‘This is the Fire
Cities and those around it, and give warning of which you denied!’ (52:13-14)
the Day of Gathering about which there is no The people who guard against evil will be in
doubt: one group in the Garden, the other in the Gardens of Delight, savouring what their Lord has
Blazing Fire. (42:7) given them. Their Lord will safeguard them from
(The Guard of Hell will be told,) ‘Seize him and the punishment of the Blazing Fire. (52:17-18)
drag him bodily into the middle of the Blazing On the Day that they are dragged face-first into the
Fire.’ (44:47) Fire: ‘Taste the scorching touch of Saqar!’ (54:48)
They will not taste any death there–except for the And He created the jinn from a fusion of fire.
first one. He will safeguard them from the pun- (55:15)
ishment of the Blazing Fire. (44:56) They will go back and forth between fire and
They will be told, ‘Today We have forgotten you scalding water. (55:44)
as you forgot the meeting of this your Day. Your Have you thought about the fire that you light? Is
refuge is the Fire and you have no helpers.’ it you who make the trees that fuel it grow or are
(45:34) We the Grower? (56:71-72)
On the Day when those who disbelieved are ex- And if he is one of the misguided deniers, there is
posed to the Fire: ‘You dissipated the good things hospitality of scalding water and roasting in the
you had in your worldly life and enjoyed yourself Blazing Fire. (56:92-94)
in it. So today you are being repaid with the pun- (Believers will say to the hypocrites,) ‘So today
ishment of humiliation for being arrogant in the no ransom will be accepted from you or from
earth without any right and for being deviators.’ those who disbelieved. Your refuge is the Fire. It
(46:20) is your master. What an evil destination!’ (57:15)
On the Day when those who disbelieved are ex- Those who believe in Allah and His
posed to the Fire, they will be asked, ‘Is this not Messengers–such people are the truly
the truth?’ They will say, ‘Yes, by our Lord.’ He sincere–and the martyrs who are with their Lord
will say, ‘Then taste the punishment for having will receive their wages and their light. But those
disbelieved.’ (46:34) who disbelieve and deny Our Signs, will be
Allah will admit those who believe to Gardens Companions of the Blazing Fire. (57:19)
with rivers flowing under them. Those who dis- Neither their wealth nor their children will help
believe have their enjoyment, eating as cattle them at all against Allah. Such people are the
eat, but the Fire will be their final residence. Companions of the Fire, remaining in it time-
(47:12) lessly, for ever. (58:17)
An image of the Garden which is promised to If Allah had not prescribed banishment for them,
those who guard against evil: in it there are rivers of He would have punished them in this world. But
water which will never spoil and rivers of milk in the hereafter they will have the punishment of
whose taste will never change and rivers of wine, the Fire. (59:3)
delightful to all who drink it, and rivers of honey of The final fate of both of them is that they will be
undiluted purity; in it they will have fruit of every timelessly, for ever in the Fire. That is the repay-
kind and forgiveness from their Lord. Is that like ment of the wrongdoers. (59:17)
those who will be in the Fire timelessly, for ever, The Companions of the Fire and the Companions
with boiling water to drink which lacerates their of the Garden are not the same. It is the
bowels? (47:15) Companions of the Garden who are the victors.
Whoever does not believe in Allah and His (59:20)
Messenger–We have prepared a Blazing Fire for But as for those who disbelieve and deny Our
the disbelievers. (48:13) Signs they are the Companions of the Fire, re-
On the Day they are tormented by the Fire. (51:13) maining in it timelessly, for ever. What an evil
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