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The Lot Of The Arrogant In The Hereafter

That Hell Fire is the abode of arrogant people is also
mentioned in a hadith of the Prophet Muhammad (saas):

... Hell fire said: Inside me are the merciless and the arrogant
people... (Muslim)
People who feel pride because of what they possess in
this world, and become unduly arrogant, commit a serious
error. They never consider what will be their outcome in the
hereafter. For this reason, at a moment they can never
predict, they will suddenly be encompassed by the torment
of Hell. In return for their failure to reckon that they would
be called to give an account of their deeds on the Day of
Judgment, they will be sent to Hell. This is the final abode
where they will spend the rest of their existence. The fate of
these people, who forget Allah and the Day of Judgment, is
stated in a verse as follows:

They will be told, "Today We have forgotten you as you
forgot the meeting of this your Day. Your refuge is the
Fire and you have no helpers. That is because you made
a mockery of Allah' s Signs and the life of the world
deluded you." Therefore, today they will not get out of
it. They will not be able to appease Allah. (Surat al-
Jathiyya: 34-35)
The underlying reason for the humiliation of these
people, who were cast into Hell because they ridiculed the
verses of Allah, and immersed themselves into the life of this
world, and thus, forgot the hereafter, was arrogance. It is
arrogance that propelled them into such a predicament.
Indeed, they are not people who had never heard about the
life of the hereafter; during their time in this world, they were