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argumentative types ask them questions, they give clear replies without
getting drawn into polemics. God has revealed that believers give this kind of
reply when questioned by those who want to have an argument:

Say, "Do you argue with us about God when He is our Lord and your
Lord? We have our actions and you have your actions. We act for Him
alone." (Surat al-Baqara: 139)

Those who argue with true believers, who refuse to understand that God
is all that truly exists and that they themselves actually belong to God, thus
rejecting obvious truths, and who, with their foolish minds, question the
existence of heaven and hell, the compassion of God, and His justice with

illogical questions must understand the following: They will continue these
arguments in hell. Koranic verses describe hell as a place of eternal argument
and conflict:

Arguing in it with one another, they will say, "By God, we were plainly
misguided" (Surat ash-Shu'ara': 96-97)
When they are squabbling with one another in the Fire, the weak will say
to those deemed great, "We were your followers, so why do you not relieve
us of a portion of the Fire?" Those deemed great will say, "All of us are in
it. God has clearly judged between His servants." (Surah Sad: 61-64)

As we have seen in the above verses, the deniers will continue to argue
even in the flames of hell. In other verses, Allah reveals the following about
those who try to argue with believers, and cites their words:

They will say, "Our Lord, give him who brought this on us double the
punishment in the Fire!" They will say, "How is it that we do not see
some men whom we used to count among the worst of people? Did we

turn them into figures of fun? Did our eyes disdain to look at them?" All
this is certainly true – the bickering of the people of the Fire. (Surah
Sad: 61-64)

The souls in hell will still continue to argue in those dark and narrow
places, under the iron cudgels and the boiling water poured over them, as their
skins melt from the heat of the flames. The pointless debates will go on, and
they will keep asking each other why they are suffering these torments. They
will continue to fall out over God and the believers:

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