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DEATH, RESURRECTION, HELL

and their followers on the Day of Resurrection. The wrongdo-
ers suffer an everlasting punishment.' (Surat ash-Shura: 45)

Entrance to Hell and the Gates of Hell

In the Qur'an the events the unbelievers will experience at the
gates of hell are described as follows:
Those who are unbelievers will be driven to hell in compa-
nies and when they arrive there and its gates are opened its

custodians will say to them, 'Did Messengers from yourselves
not come to you, reciting your Lord's signs to you and warn-
ing you of the meeting on this Day of yours? 'They will say,
'Indeed they did, but the decree of punishment is justly car-
ried out against the unbelievers.' They will be told, 'Enter the
gates of hell and stay there timelessly, forever. How evil is the
abode of the arrogant!' (Surat az-Zumar: 71-72)
For each one of the groups a special gate of hell is created.

Depending upon the extent of their rebellion against Allah, people
are subjected to a classification. Unbelievers are placed in their indi-
vidual locations in hell according to the sins they have committed. It
is stated thus in the Qur'an:
He will say, 'Enter the Fire together with the nations of jinn
and men who have passed away before you.' Each time a na-
tion enters, it will curse its sister nation, until, when they are
all gathered together in it, the last of them will say to the first,
'Our Lord, those are the ones who misguided us, so give them
a double punishment in the Fire.' He will say, 'Each will re-
ceive double. But you do not know it.' (Surat al-A'raf: 38)

In another verse in the Surat al-Hijr we are informed that hell

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