Page 120 - Death Resurrection Hell

DEATH, RESURRECTION, HELL

after is related in the Qur'an as follows:

On the Day when those who were unbelievers are exposed to
the Fire, (it will be said): 'You dissipated the good things you
had in your worldly life and enjoyed yourself in so doing. So
today you are being repaid with the punishment of humilia-
tion for being arrogant on the earth without any right and for
being deviators.' (Surat al-Ahqaf: 20)
There shall be no further favors for them. Even meeting the

most essential needs turns out to be a torment. Allah has created
food specially as a source of suffering. The only edible things are the
fruits of the bitter thorn and the tree of zaqqum, which neither nour-
ish nor satiate. They only give pain, tearing apart mouth, throat and
stomach and giving off a disgusting taste and odor. In the Qur'an,
we find descriptions of both the glorious beauties and the delicious
food peculiar to paradise as well as the unendurable food of the peo-
ple of hell:
Is that better by way of hospitality or the tree of Zaqqum
which We have made to be an ordeal for the wrongdoers? It is
a tree that emerges in the depths of the Blazing Fire. Its fruits
are just like the heads of devils. They will eat from it and fill

their bellies with it. (Surat as-Saffat: 62-66)
They have no food but a bitter thorny bush which neither
nourishes nor satisfies. (Surat al-Ghashiyah: 6-7)

The people of hell, being rebellious and ungrateful to Allah, de-
serve such a requital. As a punishment, they encounter due "hospi-
tality." In Surat al-Waqi'a, this is related as follows:
Before that they were living in luxury, persisting in immense
wrongdoing and saying, 'When we are dead and turned to

118