Page 52 - Before You Regret

50 Before You Regret

Comprehension will be very sharp in hell; everything
unbelievers feigned ignorance about in the world will
appear to be very clear then. They will realize that they
spent all their lives on vain purposes and they will ulti-
mately understand that, in exchange for minor and tem-
porary benefits, they must now remain in torment in the
afterlife. The few decades they had in the world seemed a
long period of time to them and meanwhile they never
thought about the hereafter. Rather than a perfect and
blissful life where one is not vulnerable to physical weak-
nesses such as hunger and exhaustion, they preferred this

world where one finds himself incurably dissatisfied. No
sooner they enter by hell gates than they comprehend
that they have no escape. Thus, as a last recourse to avoid
torment, they seek salvation by offering a ransom: a ran-
som of everything they possess in this world. These vain
efforts are described as follows:
...But as for those who do not respond to Him, even if
they owned everything on the earth and the same again
with it, they would offer it as a ransom. They will
receive an evil Reckoning. Their shelter will be hell.
What an evil resting-place! (Surat ar-Rad: 18)

However, these last efforts displayed upon facing the
fact of entering hell will be in vain. Allah informs us that
these attempts bring no benefit:
So today no ransom will be accepted from you or from