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DEATH, RESURRECTION, HELL

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)

Those who are unbelievers should not imagine that the extra
time We grant to them is good for them. We only allow them
more time so that they will increase their evil-doing. They

will have a humiliating punishment. (Surah Al 'Imran: 178)
Unbelievers are subjected to thousands of kinds of degrading
treatment... even lower than that which animals receive in this
world. Iron whips, shackles and collars are available only to humili-
ate. The faithless are tied to pillars, collared and chained.
In reality, humiliation is the essence of all the torments in hell.
For instance, while being cast into the fire, they are degraded. This
dreadful treatment starts from the moment the unbeliever is resur-
rected and chosen to be sent to hell. Among billions of people, the
unbeliever is taken by the angels and grabbed by his forelock and
feet. As related in the Qur'an, "That Day no man or jinn will be
asked about his sin...The evil-doers will be recognized by their

mark and seized by their forelocks and their feet." (Surat ar-
Rahman: 39-41)
In hell, the unbeliever has to come to terms with a type of treat-
ment even worse than that which animals receive. Seized by his hair,
he will be dragged along the ground and then cast into hell. Unable
to resist, he will ask for help, but to no avail. A feeling of desperation
only increases the torment:
No indeed! If he does not desist, We will grab him by the fore-

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