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DEATH, RESURRECTION, HELL

that their torment will continue forever. The anguish they feel is
stated in the Qur'an as follows:

Every time they want to come out of it, because of their suffer-
ing, they will be driven back into it: 'Taste the punishment of
the Burning!' (Surat al-Hajj: 22)
Hell is an entirely isolated place. Unbelievers enter it and never
re-emerge. There is no way out of hell. The feeling of confinement
engulfs unbelievers. They are surrounded with walls and locked

doors. This bitter feeling of confinement is described in the Qur'an as
follows:
Those who reject Our signs, they are the Companions of the
Left. Above them is a sealed vault of Fire. (Surat al-Balad: 19-
20)

Say: 'It is the truth from your Lord; so let whoever wishes
have faith and whoever wishes be a unbeliever.' We have pre-
pared for the wrongdoers a Fire whose billowing walls of
smoke will hem them in. If they call for help, they will be
showered with water like seething molten brass, which will
scald their faces. What a noxious drink! What an evil repose!
(Surat al-Kahf: 29)

The shelter of such people will be hell. They will find no way
to escape from it. (Surat an-Nisa': 121)
By the time unbelievers see the fire, they fully recognize where
they belong. They truly understand that there is no probability what-

soever of getting away from the fire. At this stage, the time concept
loses its meaning and an eternal torment begins. The incessant na-
ture of pain is its worst aspect. Even if a hundred years, a thousand

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