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DEATH, RESURRECTION, HELL

fire. Unbelievers themselves make up the fuel of the fire. This is re-
lated in the Qur'an thus:

The deviators will be firewood for hellfire. (Surat al-Jinn:15)
Wood the kindling for fire, burns longer than any other mate-
rial and with a greater intensity. Likewise, unbelievers become the
wood for this fire which they once upon a time denied. This fact is
made manifest in the following verses:

You who have faith! Safeguard yourselves and those who are
close to you from a Fire whose fuel is people and stones...
(Surat at-Tahrim: 6)

As for those who are unbelievers, their wealth and children
will not help them against Allah in any way. They are fuel for
the Fire. (Surah Al 'Imran: 10)

You and what you worship besides Allah are fuel for hell.
You will go down into it. (Surat al-Anbiya': 98)
As well as the people serving as wood, there is also real wood to
kindle the fire. Yet, this is another source of torment. Unbelievers,
who used to be very close in the world,— husband and wife, for in-
stance—carry wood for each other's fire. Abu Lahab and his wife are
given as an example in the Qur'an:

Ruin to the hands of Abu Lahab and ruin to him! His wealth
has not helped him nor anything he has earned. He will burn in
a Flaming Fire. And so will his wife, the firewood-carrier, with
a rope of twisted fiber round her neck. (Surat al-Masad: 1-5)
This is the break-up of all bonds in this world. Unbelievers, who
used to say that they were very much in love and rebelled against

Allah together, build the fires of one another in hell. One's spouse,

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