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but he does not die. And beyond him is relentless billowing walls of smoke will hem them in. If they
punishment. (14:16-17) call for help, they will be helped with water like
Hell, where they will roast? What an evil place to seething molten brass, frying their faces. What a
stay! (14:29) noxious drink! What an evil repose! (18:29)
Warn mankind of the Day when the punishment We will abandon them, that Day, to pound against
will reach them. Those who did wrong will say, each other in surging waves and the Trumpet will
‘Our Lord, reprieve us for a short time. We will be blown and We will gather them all together.
respond to Your call and follow the Messengers.’ (18:99)
‘But did you not swear to Me before that you That Day We will display Hell in its totality to the
would never meet your downfall?’ (14:44) disbelievers. (18:100)
Hell is the promised meeting-place for all of Do those who disbelieve imagine that they can
them. (15:43) take My servants as protectors instead of Me? We
It has seven gates and each gate has its allotted have prepared Hell as hospitality for the disbeliev-
share. (15:44) ers! (18:102)
As for those the angels take in death while they That is their repayment–Hell–because they disbe-
are wronging themselves, they will offer their lieved and made a mockery of My Signs and of My
submission: ‘We did not do any evil.’ Oh yes you Messengers. (18:106)
did! Allah knows what you were doing. (16:28) By your Lord, We will collect them and the Satans
(Wrongdoers will be told:) ‘Enter the gates of together. Then We will assemble them around Hell
Hell, remaining in it timelessly, for ever. How on their knees. (19:68)
evil is the abode of the arrogant!’ (16:29) Say: ‘As for those who are astray, let the All-
(We decreed in the Book for the tribe of Israel:) ‘It Merciful prolong their term until they see what
may well be that your Lord will have mercy on they were promised, whether it be the punishment
you. But if you revert to what you did, We also or the Hour. Then they will know who is in the
will revert. We have made Hell a prison for the worse position and has the weaker troops.’
disbelievers.’ (17:8) (19:75)
As for anyone who desires this fleeting existence, But We will drive the evildoers to Hell, like cattle
We hasten in it whatever We will to whoever We to a watering hole. (19:86)
want. Then We will consign him to Hell where As for those who come to their Lord as evildoers,
he will roast, reviled and driven out. (17:18) they will have Hell where they will neither die
That is part of the wisdom your Lord has revealed nor stay alive. (20:74)
to you. Do not set up another god together with Were any of them to say, ‘I am a god apart from
Allah and so be thrown into Hell, blamed and Him,’ We would repay him with Hell. That is
driven out. (17:39) how We repay wrongdoers. (21:29)
He said, ‘Go! And as for any who follow you, You and what you worship besides Allah are fuel
your repayment is Hell, repayment in full!’ for Hell. You will go down into it. (21:98)
(17:63) There will be sighing for them in it and they will
Whoever Allah guides is truly guided. But as for not be able to hear. (21:100)
those He leads astray, you will not find any protec- Here are two rival groups who disputed concern-
tors for them apart from Him. We will gather them ing their Lord. Those who disbelieve will have
on the Day of Rising, flat on their faces, blind, garments of fire cut out for them, and boiling
dumb and deaf. Their shelter will be Hell. water poured over their heads. (22:19)
Whenever the Blaze dies down, We will increase it Every time they want to come out of it, because
for them. (17:97) of their suffering, they will be driven back into it:
Say: ‘It is the truth from your Lord; so let whoever ‘Taste the punishment of the Burning!’ (22:22)
wishes believe and whoever wishes disbelieve.’ Those whose scales are heavy, they are the suc-
We have prepared for the wrongdoers a Fire whose cessful. Those whose scales are light, they are the
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