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DEATH, RESURRECTION, HELL

are not chained. And as for human beings, only the untreatable and
dangerously mentally retarded are chained. This being the case,
those sent to hell are the most inferior of all creatures. That is why,
they are bound in "a chain which is seventy cubits long", as stated in
the above verse. Other verses also give details of this degrading tor-

ment:
...they have shackles and chains around their necks and are
dragged along the ground into the boiling water and then are
thrown into the Fire! Then they will be asked, 'Where are
those besides Allah you associated with Him?' (Surah Ghafir:
71-73)

... If you are surprised at their blindness, what could be more
surprising than their words: 'What, when we are turned to
dust, shall we then be created all anew?' These are the people
who reject their Lord. Such people have iron collars round
their necks. Such people are the Companions of the Fire, re-
maining in it timelessly, forever. (Surat ar-Ra'd: 5)

...that Day you will see the evil-doers yoked together in
chains, wearing shirts of tar, their faces enveloped in the Fire.
So that Allah may repay every self for what it earned. Allah is
swift at reckoning. (Surah Ibrahim: 49-51)

Those who are unbelievers will have garments of fire cut out
for them, and boiling water poured over their heads, which
will melt the contents of their bellies as well as their skin, and
they will be beaten with cudgels made of iron. (Surat al-Hajj:
19-21)

The dark spirit the degradation accounts for becomes apparent

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