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The Hell

[2:80] And they say: Fire shall not touch us but for a few days. Say: Have you received a promise from Allah, then Allah will not fail to perform His promise, or do you speak against Allah what you do not know?

[2:81] Yea, whoever earns evil and his sins beset him on every side, these are the inmates of the fire; in it they shall abide.

[4:56] (As for) those who disbelieve in Our communications, We shall make them enter fire; so oft as their skins are thoroughly burned, We will change them for other skins, that they may taste the chastisement; surely Allah is Mighty, Wise.

[7:50] And the inmates of the fire shall call out to the dwellers of the garden, saying: Pour on us some water or of that which Allah has given you. They shall say: Surely Allah has prohibited them both to the unbelievers.

[7:179] And certainly We have created for hell many of the jinn and the men; they have hearts with which they do not understand, and they have eyes with which they do not see, and they have ears with which they do not hear; they are as cattle, nay, they are in worse errors; these are the heedless ones.

[14:15] And they (disbelievers) asked for judgment and every insolent opposer was disappointed:

[14:16] Hell is before him and he shall be given to drink of festering water:

[14:17] He will drink it little by little and will not be able to swallow it agreeably, and death will come to him from every quarter, but he shall not die; and there shall be vehement chastisement before him.

[15:44] It has seven gates; for every gate there shall be a separate party of them (who follow satan).

[18:29] And say: The truth is from your Lord, so let him who please believe, and let him who please disbelieve; surely We have prepared for the iniquitous a fire, the curtains of which shall encompass them about; and if they cry for water, they shall be given water like molten brass which will scald their faces; evil the drink and ill the resting-place.

[25:34] (As for) those who shall be gathered upon their faces to hell, they are in a worse plight and straying farther away from the path.

[35:36] And (as for) those who disbelieve, for them is the fire of hell; it shall not be finished with them entirely so that they should die, nor shall the chastisement thereof be lightened to them: even thus do We re-tribute every ungrateful one.

[35:37] And they shall cry therein for succor: O our Lord ! Take us out, we will do good deeds other than those which we used to do. Did We not preserve you alive long enough, so that he who would be mindful in it should mind? And there came to you the warner; therefore taste; because for the unjust, there is no helper.

[37:62] Is this (heaven) better as an entertainment or the tree of Zaqqum?

[37:63] Surely We have made it (Zaqqum) to be a trial to the unjust.

[37:64] Surely it is a tree that grows in the bottom of the hell;

[37:65] Its produce is as it were the heads of the serpents.

[37:66] Then most surely they (disbelievers) shall eat of it and fill (their) bellies with it.

[37:67] Then most surely they shall have after it to drink of a mixture prepared in boiling water.

[37:68] Then most surely their return shall be to hell.

[38:55] This (shall be so); and most surely there is an evil resort for the inordinate ones;

[38:56] Hell; they shall enter it, so evil is the resting place.

[38:57] This (shall be so); so let them taste it, boiling and intensely cold (drink).

[38:58] And other (punishment) of the same kind, of various sorts.

[38:59] This is an army plunging in without consideration along with you; no welcome for them, surely they shall enter fire.

[38:60] They shall say: Nay! You, no welcome to you: you did proffer it to us, so evil is the resting place.

[38:61] They shall say: Our Lord! Whoever prepared it first for us, add Thou to him a double chastisement in the fire.

[38:62] And they (disbelievers) shall say: What is the matter with us that we do not see men whom we used to count among the vicious?

[38:63] Was it that we (only) took them in scorn, or have our eyes (now) turned aside from them?

[38:64] That most surely is the truth: the contending one with another of the inmates of the fire.

[40:69] Have you not seen those who dispute with respect to the communications of Allah: how are they turned away?

[40:70] Those who reject the Book and that with which We have sent Our Messenger; but they shall soon come to know,

[40:71] When the fetters and the chains shall be on their necks; they shall be dragged

[40:72] Into boiling water, then in the fire shall they be burned;

[40:73] Then shall it be said to them: Where is that which you used to set up

[40:74] Besides Allah? They shall say: They are gone away from us, nay, we used not to call upon anything before. Thus does Allah confound the unbelievers.

[40:75] That is because you exulted in the land unjustly and because you behaved insolently.

[40:76] Enter the gates of hell to abide therein, evil then is the abode of the proud.

[43:74] Surely the guilty shall abide in the chastisement of hell.

[43:75] It shall not be abated from them and they shall therein be despairing.

[43:76] And We are not unjust to them, but they themselves were unjust.

[43:77] And they shall call out: O Malik (angel in charge of hell)! Let your Lord make an end of us. He shall say: Surely you shall tarry.

[44:43] Surely the tree of the Zaqqum,

[44:44] Is the food of the sinful

[44:45] Like dregs of oil; it shall boil in (their) bellies,

[44:46] Like the boiling of hot water.

[44:47] Seize him (wrongdoer and disbeliever), then drag him down into the middle of the hell;

[44:48] Then pour above his head of the torment of the boiling water:

[44:49] Taste; you forsooth are the mighty, the honorable:

[44:50] Surely this is what you disputed about.

[55:43] This is the hell which the guilty called a lie.

[55:44] Round about shall they go between it and hot, boiling water.

[55:45] Which then of the bounties of your Lord will you deny?

[56:41] And those of the left hand, how wretched are those of the left hand!

[56:42] In hot wind and boiling water,

[56:43] And the shade of black smoke,

[56:44] Neither cool nor honorable.

[56:45] Surely they were before that made to live in ease and plenty.

[56:46] And they persisted in the great violation.

[56:47] And they used to say: What! When we die and have become dust and bones, shall we then indeed be raised?

[56:48] Or our fathers of yore?

[56:49] Say: The first and the last,

[56:50] Shall most surely be gathered together for the appointed hour of a known day.

[56:51] Then shall you, O you who err and call it a lie!

[56:52] Most surely eat of a tree of Zaqqum,

[56:53] And fill (your) bellies with it;

[56:54] Then drink over it of boiling water;

[56:55] And drink as drinks the thirsty camel.

[56:56] This is their entertainment on the day of requital

[67:6] And for those who disbelieve in their Lord is the punishment of hell, and evil is the resort.

[67:7] When they shall be cast therein, they shall hear a loud moaning of it as it heaves,

[67:8] Almost bursting for fury. Whenever a group is cast into it, its keeper shall ask them: Did there not come to you a warner?

[67:9] They shall say: Yea! Indeed there came to us a warner, but we rejected (him) and said: Allah has not revealed anything, you are only in a great error.

[67:10] And they shall say: Had we but listened or pondered, we should not have been among the inmates of the burning fire.

[67:11] So they shall acknowledge their sins, but far will be (forgiveness) from the inmates of the burning fire.

[69:25] And as for him who is given his book in his left hand he shall say: O would that my book had never been given me:

[69:26] And I had not known what my account was:

[69:27] O would that it had made an end (of me):

[69:28] My wealth has availed me nothing:

[69:29] My authority is gone away from me.

[69:30] Lay hold on him, then put a chain on him,

[69:31] Then cast him into the burning fire,

[69:32] Then thrust him into a chain the length of which is seventy cubits.

[69:33] Surely he did not believe in Allah, the Great,

[69:34] Nor did he urge the feeding of the poor.

[69:35] Therefore he has not here today a true friend,

[69:36] Nor any food except refuse,

[69:37] Which none but the wrongdoers eat.

[70:15] By no means! Surely it is a flaming fire

[70:16] Dragging by the head,

[70:17] It shall claim him who turned and fled (from truth),

[70:18] And amasses (wealth) then shuts it up.

[74:27] And what will make you realize what hell is?

[74:28] It leaves naught nor does it spare aught.

[74:29] It scorches the mortal.

[74:30] Over it are nineteen (angels in charge)

[74:31] And We have not made the wardens of the fire others than angels, and We have not made their number but as a trial for those who disbelieve, that those who have been given the book may be certain and those who believe may increase in faith, and those who have been given the book and the believers may not doubt, and that those in whose hearts is a disease and the unbelievers may say: What does Allah mean by this parable? Thus does Allah make err whom He pleases, and He guides whom He pleases, and none knows the hosts of your Lord but He Himself; and this is naught but a reminder to the mortals.

[74:32] Nay; I swear by the moon,

[74:33] And the night when it departs,

[74:34] And the daybreak when it shines;

[74:35] Surely it (hell) is one of the gravest (misfortunes),

[74:36] A warning to mortals,

[74:37] To him among you who wishes to go forward or remain behind.

[74:38] Every soul is held in pledge for what it earns,

[74:39] Except the people of the right hand,

[74:40] In gardens, they shall ask each other

[74:41] About the guilty:

[74:42] What has brought you into hell?

[74:43] They shall say: We were not of those who prayed;

[74:44] And we used not to feed the poor;

[74:45] And we used to enter into vain discourse with those who entered into vain discourses.

[74:46] And we used to call the day of judgment a lie;

[74:47] Till death overtook us.

[74:48] So the intercession of intercessors shall not avail them.

[74:49] What is then the matter with them, that they turn away from the admonition

[74:50] As if they were asses taking fright

[74:51] That had fled from a lion?

[74:52] Nay; every one of them desires that he may be given pages spread out;

[74:53] Nay! but they do not fear the hereafter.

[74:54] Nay! it is surely an admonition.

[74:55] So whoever pleases may mind it.

[74:56] And they will not mind unless Allah please. He is worthy to be feared and worthy to forgive.

[76:4] Surely We have prepared for the unbelievers chains and shackles and a burning fire.

[78:21] Surely hell lies in wait,

[78:22] A place of resort for the inordinate,

[78:23] Living therein for ages.

[78:24] They shall not taste therein cool nor drink

[78:25] But boiling and intensely cold water,

[78:26] Requital corresponding.

[78:27] Surely they feared not the account,

[78:28] And called Our communications a lie, giving the lie (to the truth).

[78:29] And We have recorded everything in a book,

[78:30] So taste! For We will not add to you aught but chastisement.

[88:1] Has not there come to you the news of the overwhelming calamity?

[88:2] (Some) faces on that day shall be downcast,

[88:3] Laboring, toiling,

[88:4] Entering into burning fire,

[88:5] Made to drink from a boiling spring.

[88:6] They shall have no food but of thorns,

[88:7] Which will neither fatten nor avail against hunger.

[101:8] And as for him whose measure of good deeds is light,

[101:9] His abode shall be the abyss.

[101:10] And what will make you know what it is?

[101:11] A burning fire.

Hijrat, The Migration

[4:100] And whoever flies in Allah's way, he will find in the earth many a place of refuge and abundant resources, and whoever goes forth from his house flying to Allah and His Messenger, and then death over- takes him, his reward is indeed with Allah and Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.

[8:30] And when those who disbelieved devised plans against you that they might confine you or slay you or drive you away; and they devised plans and Allah too had arranged a plan; and Allah is the best of planners.

[9:40] If you will not aid him, Allah certainly aided him (Muhammad) when those who disbelieved expelled him, he being the second of the two, when they were both in the cave, when he (Muhammad) said to his companion: Grieve not, surely Allah is with us. So Allah sent down His tranquility upon him and strengthened him with hosts which you did not see, and made lowest the word of those who disbelieved; and the word of Allah, that is the highest; and Allah is Mighty, Wise.

[16:41] And those who fly for Allah's sake after they are oppressed, We will most certainly give them a good abode in the world, and the reward of the hereafter is certainly much greater, did they but know;

[16:42] Those who are patient and on their Lord do they rely.

[16:110] Yet surely your Lord, with respect to those who fly after they are persecuted, then they struggle hard and are patient, most surely your Lord after that is Forgiving, Merciful.

[22:40] Those who have been expelled from their homes without a just cause except that they say: Our Lord is Allah. And had there not been

Allah's repelling some people by others, certainly there would have been pulled down cloisters and churches and synagogues and mosques in which Allah's name is much remembered; and surely Allah will help him who helps His cause; most surely Allah is Strong, Mighty.

[29:56] O My servants who believe! Surely My earth is vast, therefore Me alone should you serve.

Prophet Hud (a.s)

[7:65] And to Ad (We sent) their brother Hud. He said: O my people! Serve Allah, you have no god other than Him; will you not then guard (against evil)?

[7:66] The chiefs of those who disbelieved from among his people said: Most surely we see you in folly, and most surely we think you to be of the liars.

[7:67] He said: O my people! There is no folly in me, but I am a messenger of the Lord of the worlds.

[7:68] I deliver to you the messages of my Lord and I am a faithful adviser to you:

[7:69] What! Do you wonder that a reminder has come to you from your Lord through a man from among you that he might warn you? And remember when He made you successors after Nuh's people and increased you in excellence in respect of make; therefore remember the benefits of Allah, that you may be successful.

[7:70] They said: Have you come to us that we may serve Allah alone and give up what our fathers used to serve? Then bring to us what you threaten us with, if you are of the truthful ones.

[7:71] He said: Indeed uncleanness and wrath from your Lord have lighted upon you; what! do you dispute with me about names which you and your fathers have given? Allah has not sent any authority for them; wait then, I too with you will be of those who wait.

[7:72] So We delivered him and those with him by mercy from Us, and We cut off the last of those who rejected Our communications and were not believers.

[11:50] And to Ad (We sent) their brother Hud. He said: O my people! Serve Allah, you have no god other than He; you are nothing but forgers (of lies).

[11:51] O my people! I do not ask of you any reward for it; my reward is only with Him Who created me; do you not then understand?

[11:52] And, O my people! Ask forgiveness of your Lord, then turn to Him; He will send on you clouds pouring down abundance of rain and add strength to your strength, and do not turn back guilty.

[11:53] They said: O Hud! You have not brought to us any clear argument and we are not going to desert our gods for your word, and we are not believers in you:

[11:54] We cannot say aught but that some of our gods have smitten you with evil. He said: Surely I call Allah to witness, and do you bear witness too, that I am clear of what you associate (with Allah).

[11:55] Besides Him, therefore scheme against me all together; then give me no respite:

[11:56] Surely I rely on Allah, my Lord and your Lord; there is no living creature but He holds it by its forelock; surely my Lord is on the right path.

[11:57] But if you turn back, then indeed I have delivered to you the message with which I have been sent to you, and my Lord will bring an- other people in your place, and you cannot do Him any harm; surely my Lord is the Preserver of all things.

[11:58] And when Our decree came to pass, We delivered Hud and those who believed with him with mercy from Us, and We delivered them from a hard chastisement.

[11:59] And this was Ad; they denied the communications of their Lord, and disobeyed His messengers and followed the bidding of every insolent opposer (of truth).

[11:60] And they were overtaken by curse in this world and on the resurrection day; now surely Ad disbelieved in their Lord; now surely, away with Ad, the people of Hud.

[26:123] Ad gave the lie to the messengers.

[26:124] When their brother Hud said to them: Will you not guard (against evil)?

[26:125] Surely I am a faithful messenger to you;

[26:126] Therefore guard against (the punishment of) Allah and obey me:

[26:127] And I do not ask you any reward for it; surely my reward is only with the Lord of the worlds

[26:128] Do you build on every height a monument? Vain is it that you do:

[26:129] And you make strong fortresses that perhaps you may

[26:130] And when you lay hands (on men) you lay hands (like) tyrants;

[26:131] So guard against (the punishment of) Allah and obey me

[26:132] And be careful of (your duty to) Him Who has given you abundance of what you know.

[26:133] He has given you abundance of cattle and children

[26:134] And gardens and fountains;

[26:135] Surely I fear for you the chastisement of a grievous day.

[26:136] They said: It is the same to us whether you admonish or are not one of the admonishers

[26:137] This is naught but a custom of the ancients;

[26:138] And we are not going to be punished.

[26:139] So they gave him the lie, then We destroyed them. Most surely there is a sign in this, but most of them do not believe.

[41:15] Then as to Ad, they were unjustly proud in the land, and they said: Who is mightier in strength than we? Did they not see that Allah Who created them was mightier than they in strength, and they denied Our communications?

[41:16] So We sent on them a furious wind in unlucky days, that We may make them taste the chastisement of abasement in this world's life; and certainly the chastisement of the hereafter is much more abasing, and they shall not be helped.

[46:21] And mention the brother of Ad; when he warned his people in the sandy plains, and indeed warners came before him and after him, saying Serve none but Allah; surely I fear for you the punishment of a grievous day.

[46:22] They said: Have you come to us to turn us away from our gods; then bring us what you threaten us with, if you are of the truthful ones.

[46:23] He said: The knowledge is only with Allah, and I deliver to you the message with which I am sent, but I see you are a people who are ignorant.

[46:24] So when they saw it as a cloud appearing in the sky advancing towards their valleys, they said: This is a cloud which will give us rain. Nay! It is what you sought to hasten on, a blast of wind in which is a painful punishment,

[46:25] Destroying everything by the command of its Lord, so they be- came such that naught could be seen except their dwellings. Thus do We reward the guilty people.

[46:26] And certainly We had established them in what We have not established you in, and We had given, them ears and eyes and hearts, but neither their ears, nor their eyes, nor their hearts availed them aught, since they denied the communications of Allah, and that which they mocked encompassed them.

[51:41] And in Ad: When We sent upon them the destructive wind.

[51:42] It did not leave aught on which it blew, but it made it like ashes.

[54:18] Ad treated (the truth) as a lie, so how (great) was My punishment and My warning!

[54:19] Surely We sent on them a tornado in a day of bitter ill-luck

[54:20] Tearing men away as if they were the trunks of palm-trees torn up.

[54:21] How (great) was then My punishment and My warning!

[69:6] And as to Ad, they were destroyed by a roaring, violent blast.

[69:7] Which He made to prevail against them for seven nights and eight days unremittingly, so that you might have seen the people therein prostrate as if they were the trunks of hollow palms.

[69:8] Do you then see of them one remaining?

Hudaybiya and Oath of Ridwan

[48:1] Surely We have given to you a clear victory (in the form of the treaty)

[48:2] That Allah may forgive your community their past faults and those to follow and complete His favor to you and keep you on a right way,

[48:3] And that Allah might help you with a mighty help.

[48:8] Surely We have sent you (Muhammad) as a witness and as a bearer of good news and as a warner,

[48:9] That you (companions) may believe in Allah and His Messenger and may aid him and revere him; and (that) you may declare His glory, morning and evening.

[48:10] Surely those who swear allegiance to you do but swear allegiance to Allah; the hand of Allah is above their hands. Therefore whoever breaks (his faith), he breaks it only to the injury of his own soul, and whoever fulfills what he has covenanted with Allah, He will grant him a mighty reward.

[48:11] Those of the dwellers of the desert who were left behind will say to you: Our property and our families kept us busy, so ask forgiveness for us. They say with their tongues what is not in their hearts. Say: Then who can control anything for you from Allah if He intends to do you harm or if He intends to do you good; nay, Allah is Aware of what you do:

[48:12] Nay! you rather thought that the Messenger and the believers would not return to their families ever, and that was made fair-seeming to your hearts and you thought an evil thought and you were a people doomed to perish.

[48:18] Certainly Allah was well pleased with the believers when they swore allegiance to you under the tree, and He knew what was in their hearts, so He sent down tranquility on them and rewarded them with a near victory,

[48:19] And many acquisitions which they will take; and Allah is Mighty, Wise.

[48:20] Allah promised you many acquisitions which you will take, then He hastened on this one for you and held back the hands of men from you, and that it may be a sign for the believers and that He may guide you on a right path.

[48:21] And others which you have not yet been able to achieve Allah has surely encompassed them, and Allah has power over all things.

[48:24] And He (Allah) it is Who held back their (Meccans) hands from you and your hands from them (preventing bloodshed) in the valley of Mecca after He had given you victory (the treaty) over them; and Allah is Seeing what you do.

[48:25] It is they who disbelieved and turned you away from the Sacred Mosque and (turned off) the offering withheld from arriving at its destined place; and were it not for the believing men and the believing women (in Mecca under Taqiya), whom, not having known, you might have trodden down, and thus something hateful might have afflicted you on their account without knowledge, so that Allah may cause to enter into His mercy whomsoever He pleases; had they been widely separated one from another, We would surely have punished those who disbelieved from among them with a painful punishment.

[48:26] When those who disbelieved harbored in their hearts (feelings of) disdain, the disdain of (the days of) ignorance, but Allah sent down His tranquility on His Messenger and on the believers, and made them keep the word of guarding (against evil), and they were entitled to it and worthy of it; and Allah is Cognizant of all things.

[48:27] Certainly Allah had shown to His Messenger the vision with truth: you shall most certainly enter the Sacred Mosque, if Allah pleases, in security, (some) having their heads shaved and (others) having their hair cut, you shall not fear, but He knows what you do not know, so He brought about a near victory (Conquests of Khayber) before that (entering Mecca the next year).

The Battle of Hunain

[9:25] Certainly Allah helped you in many battlefields and on the day of Hunain, when your great numbers made you vain, but they availed you nothing and the earth became strait to you notwithstanding its spaciousness, then you turned back retreating.

[9:26] Then Allah sent down His tranquility upon His Messenger and upon the believers, and sent down hosts which you did not see, and chastised those who disbelieved, and that is the reward of the unbelievers.

[9:27] Then will Allah after this turn (mercifully) to whom He pleases, and Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.