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be remembered and preserved after they died. And so they
disregarded this difficult day. In the Qur'an Allah reveals this dead-
end situation, as follows:
If those who did wrong owned everything on Earth, and the
same again with it, they would offer it as a ransom to save
themselves from the evil of the punishment on the Day of
Resurrection. What confronts them from Allah will be
something with which they did not reckon. (Surat az-Zumar,
47)
He [Ibrahim] said: "You have adopted idols apart from Allah as
tokens of mutual affection in this world. But then on the Day
of Resurrection, you will reject one another and curse one
another. The Fire will be your shelter. You will have no
helpers." (Surat al-'Ankabut, 25)
Despite being party to many hypocrisies, no unbelievers will
acknowledge that their friendships were false. For many, the
friendships and love they experienced were "different from all
others." In reality, they all made the same mistakes and did not
experience true loyalty, not even on Earth. Furthermore, the offers
that they will make on that Day to prevent their deserved
punishment reveals their attitude toward friendship. Their families
and friends, about whom they felt so strong while alive, will be
considered a potential ransom. This fact is revealed in the Qur'an, as
follows:
[On that Day] no good friend will ask about his friend, even
though they can see each other. An evildoer will wish that he
could ransom himself from the punishment of that Day by
means of his sons, his wife, his brother, or his family who
sheltered him or everyone else on Earth, if that only meant that