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THE SPIRITUAL

TORMENT IN HELL

The unbelievers will experience spiritual torment as well as the
physical torment in hell. Regret, hopelessness, humiliation, a feeling

of being ill-treated, embarrassment, and disappointment are the feel-
ings aroused by these various torments.

"The Fire Reaching Right into the Heart"

In one way or another, people who do not submit themselves to
Allah or who do not believe Him, taste spiritual torment in this
world. For instance when such people lose their closest friends,
spouse, or children or are deceived by someone in whom they have
placed unquestioning trust, their hearts are filled with an inexplica-
ble grief. This grief is, in fact, a special form of torment which Allah
implants in a person's heart as a penalty for idolizing someone lost
or someone who betrayed him. The individual needs essentially to
demonstrate to Allah his feelings of love, appreciation, awe, devo-
tion, trust and friendship. Failing to do this and simply extending

these feelings to someone else, who is also created by Allah and thus
in need of Him, in other words, associating partners with Allah,
causes this penalty. Idolaters taste this grief, so that they may take

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