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• Those who gloat with their wealth and property,
such as Qarun and the wealthy garden owner, lose all
their wealth with personal destruction. (Surat al-
Qasas: 76-82, Surat al-Kahf: 32-43)

• Unbelievers are made the most miserable. (Surat al-
A'la: 11-12)
• They live filled with false hopes. (Surat an-Nisa':
120)

• Allah makes their breast narrow and constricted; He
defiles them. (Surat al-An'am: 125)

43. Who will enter the Fire?

In many verses of the Qur'an those who will enter Hell
are classified with certain characteristics. Some of the char-
acteristics of these people can be listed as follows: those who
disbelieve in Allah; who associate others with Allah; those
who take other gods together with Allah; those who claim to
be god (Surely Allah is beyond that); those who take others
as false gods, saviours or guides instead of Allah; those who
hinder men from the path of Allah; those who look for
crookedness in the path of Allah; those who conceal any of
the revelations of the Book of Allah; those who prevent His
name from being celebrated; those who devour the wealth
of orphans wrongfully; those who do wrong to people; those
who devour usury; those who slayed the prophets unjustly;
those who slay those among men who enjoin justice; those
who oppose the messengers of Allah; those who kill men de-
liberately; those who devour the property of men by false
means; those who treat their religion as a game and a diver-
sion; those who make a mockery of Allah's Signs and of His

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