The People of Hell and Their Evil Deeds
The People of Hell and Their Evil Deeds (1/2) Dr. Umar Sulaiman al-Ashqar 1. The People Who Will Abide Therein Forever The people of Hell, who will abide therein forever, never leaving it and never dying, are the disbelievers and polytheists. Allah (Glorified and Exalted be He) says: "But those who reject Allah, for them will be the Fire of Hell. No term shall be determined for them, so they should die, nor shall its penalty be lightened for them". (Surah Al-Fatir, 35:36) "But those who reject Faith and belie Our Signs, they shall be companions [or dwellers] of the Fire; they shall abide therein". (Surah Al-Baqarah, 2:39) "Verily those who reject faith and die rejecting - on them is Allah's Curse and the Curse of the Angels and of all mankind. They will abide therein: their penalty will not be lightened, nor will respite be their lot." (Surah Al-Baqarah, 2:161-162) "Know they not that for those who oppose Allah and His Messenger is the Fire of Hell - wherein they shall dwell? That is the supreme disgrace". (Surah At-Taubah, 9:63) "It is not for such as join gods with Allah to visit or maintain the Mosques of Allah while they witness against their own souls to infidelity [or disbelief]. The works of such bear no fruit: In Fire shall they dwell." (Surah At-Taubah, 9:17) Because they will abide therein forever, Allah (Glorified and Exalted be He) described the torment of Hell as a lasting torment, one that will never end, and one that is eternal: "Their wish will be to get out of the Fire, but never will they get out therefrom: their Penalty will be one that endures". (Surah Al-Ma'idah, 5:37) "At length it will be said to the wrongdoers: "Taste you the enduring punishment! You get but the recompense of what you earned!" (Surah Yunus, 10:52) Death will be slaughtered, as is stated in the hadith narration from Ibn 'Umar by al-Bukhari and in Muslim from Abu Sa'eed who said: "The Messenger of Allah (Peace be upon him) said: "Death will be brought like a horned ram, and will be made to stand between Paradise and Hell". It will be said, "O people of Paradise, do you know what this is?" They will raise their heads and look, and will say, "Yes, this is death". It will be said, "O people of Hell, do you know what this is?" They will raise their heads and look, and will say, "Yes, this is death". Then the command will be given for death to be slaughtered. Then it will be said, "O people of Paradise, it is eternal, there is no death. O people of Hell, it is eternal, there is no death". Then the Messenger of Allah (Peace be upon him) recited: "And warn them of the Day of Grief and regrets when the case has been decided, while [now] they are in a state of carelessness, and they believe not". (Surah Maryam, 19:39) And in the narration of at-Tirmidhi, Abu Sa'eed al-Khudree added: "If any were to die of joy it would be the people of Paradise and if any were to die of despair, it would be the people of Hell". (at-Tirmidhi, said "This is a sahih hasan hadith"). 2. Hell will be the Dwelling Place of the Kuffar and Mushrikeen Because the disbelievers and polytheists will remain in Hell forever, it is considered to be their abode or dwelling place, just as Paradise is the abode of the believers: "Their abode will be the Fire; and evil is the home of the wrongdoers" (Surah Al-‘Imran, 3:151) "Their abode is the Fire, because of the [evil] they earned". (Surah Yunus, 10:8) "Is there not a home in Hell for those who reject Faith?" (Surah Al-Ankabut, 29:68) Hell is abode that they deserve: "Your abode is the Fire: that is the proper place to claim you..." (Surah Al-Hadid, 57:15) Hell is the worst abode and destination: "But for the wrongdoers will be an evil place of [final] Return! - they will burn therein - an evil bed [indeed to lie on]!" (Surah Saad, 38:55-56) 3. Those Who Call Others to Hell Those who follow misguided beliefs and ideologies that contradict the laws of Allah (Glorified and Exalted be He) and those who believe in their false causes, these are the ones who call others to Hell: "Those [unbelievers] do [but] beckon you to the Fire…" (Surah Al-Baqarah, 2:221) "And We made them [but] leaders inviting to the Fire; and on the Day of Judgement no help shall they find". (Surah Al-Qasas, 28:41) One of them is Shaytaan: "…[would they do so] even if it is Shaytaan beckoning them to the Penalty of the [Blazing] Fire?" (Surah Luqman, 31:21) "He [Shaytaan} only invites his adherents that they may become Companions of the blazing Fire" (Surah Al-Fatir, 35:6) Those who call others to the Fire in this world will lead their people and their followers to the Fire in the Hereafter. An example is Pharaoh: "He will go before his people on the Day of Judgement, and lead them into the Fire." (Surah Hud, 11:98) All evil leaders who call people to their belief systems that go against Islam are in fact calling people to the Fire of Hell, because the only way to escape the Fire of Hell and enter Paradise is to follow the path of Faith: "And O my people! [strange] it is for me to call you to salvation while you call me to the Fire!" (Surah Ghafir, 40:41) This man's people were calling him to the kufr and shirk of Pharaoh while he was calling them to Tawheed and faith in Allah (Glorified and Exalted be He). Because the kuffaar invite people to the Fire, Allah (Glorified and Exalted be He) forbade believing men to marry mushrik women, just as He forbade believing women to marry mushrik men: "And do not marry unbelieving (literally, polytheist) women until they believe. A slave woman who believes is better than a [free] unbelieving woman, even though she allures you. Nor marry [your girls] to unbelievers until they believer; a male slave who believes is better than a [free] unbeliever, even though he allures you. Those [unbelievers] do [but] beckon you to the Fire, but Allah invites by His Grace to the Garden [of Bliss] and forgiveness, and makes His Signs clear to mankind that they may receive admonition" (Surah Al-Baqarah, 2:221) |
رد: The People of Hell and Their Evil Deeds
The People of Hell and Their Evil Deeds (2/2) Dr. Umar Sulaiman al-Ashqar The Worst Evil Deeds of Those Who Will Remain Forever in Hell The Qur’an speaks at length of the evil deeds for which those who will abide in the Hell forever deserve their never-ending fate. Here we will mention the most serious of them. (1) Kufr and Shirk: Allah (Glorified and Exalted be He) tells us that it will be said to those who disbelieved, when they are in the Fire, that Allah's hatred of them will be greater than their own hatred towards themselves because of their disbelief. Then He explains that their eternal fate in Hell is because of their kufr and shirk: "The unbelievers will be addressed: "Greater was the aversion of Allah to you than [is] your aversion to yourselves, seeing that you were called to the Faith but you used to refuse. They will say, "Our Rabb! Twice have You made us without life, and twice have You given us life! Now have we recognised our sins: is there any way out [of this]?" [The answer will be]: "This is because, when Allah was invoked as the Only [****** of worship] you did reject Faith, but when partners were joined to Him, you believed! The Command is only with Allah, All-High, All-Great!" (Surah Ghafir, 40:10-12) Allah (Glorified and Exalted be He) tells us that the keeper of Hell will ask the kuffaar as they are approaching Hell: "Did there not come to you your Messengers with clear signs?" (Surah Ghafir, 40:50) The response will be that they deserved Hell because they disbelieved in the Messengers and their Message: "They will say, "Yes indeed; a Warner did come to us, but we rejected him" and said: "Allah never sent down any [Message] you are in nothing but a great error!" (Surah Al-Mulk, 67:9) Concerning those who disbelieved in the Qur’an, Allah (Glorified and Exalted be He) says: "For We have sent you a Message from Our own presence. If any do turn away therefrom, verily they will bear a burden on the Day of Judgement. They will abide in this [state] and grievous will that burden be to them on that Day". (Surah Ta-Ha, 20:99-101) Concerning those who disbelieve the Qur’an and associate partners with Allah, Allah (Glorified and Exalted be He) says: "Those who reject the Book and the [Revelations] with which We sent Our Messengers: but soon shall they know, when the yokes [shall be] round their necks, and the chains, they shall be dragged along. In the boiling fetid fluid, then in the Fire shall they be burned. Then shall it be said to them, "Where are the deities to which you gave part-worship in derogation to Allah? They will reply: "They have left us in the lurch. Nay, we invoked not, of old, anything [that had real existence]." Thus does Allah leave the unbelievers to stray. That was because you were want to rejoice on the earth in things other than the Truth, and that you were want to be ignorant. Enter the gates of Hell, to dwell therein and evil is [this] abode of the arrogant". (Surah Ghafir, 40:70-76) Concerning those kuffaar and mushrikeen who regarded their gods as equal to the Rabb of the Worlds, Allah (Glorified and Exalted be He) says: "Then they will be thrown headlong into the [Fire] - they and those straying in Evil and the whole hosts of Iblees together. They will say there in their mutual bickerings: "…By Allah, we were truly in an error manifest, when we held you [false gods] as equals with the Rabb of the Worlds" (Surah Ash-Shu'ara', 26:94-98) Concerning the fate on the Day of Judgement of those who disbelieved, Allah said: "If you do marvel [at their want of faith] strange is their saying: "When we are [actually] dust, shall we indeed then be a creation renewed?" They are those who disbelieve in their Rabb! They are those around whose necks will be yokes [of servitude]. They will be Companions of the Fire to dwell therein [for aye]!" (Surah Ar-Ra'd, 13:5) "...their abode will be Hell; every time it shows abatement, We shall increase for them the fierceness of the Fire. That is their recompense, because they rejected Our Signs and said, "When we are reduced to bones and broken fragments, should we really be raised up [to be] a new creation?" (Surah Al-Isra', 17: 97-98) (2) Failing to fulfill the legislated duties: as well as denying the Day of Judgement. Allah (Glorified and Exalted be He) tells us that the people of Paradise will ask the people of Hell: "What led you into Hellfire?" (Surah Al-Muddathir, 74:42) They will reply: "...We were not of those who prayed, Nor were we of those who fed the indigent, But we used to talk vanities with vain talkers, And we used to deny the Day of Judgement, Until there came to us [the Hour] that is certain." (Surah Al-Muddathir, 74:43-47) (3) Obeying the misguided leaders of kufr and accepting the principles by means of which they mislead people and turn them away from the religion of Allah (Glorified and Exalted be He) as taught by the Prophets: "And We have destined for them intimate companions [of like nature] who made alluring to them what was before them and what was behind them. And the Sentence among the previous generations of jinns and men who have passed away, is proved against them; for they are utterly lost. The unbelievers say: "Listen not to this Qur’an but talk at random in the midst of its [reading] that you may gain the upper hand!" But We shall certainly give the unbelievers a taste of a severe penalty, and We shall requite them the worst of their deeds. Such is the requital of the enemies of Allah - the Fire, therein will be for them the eternal home, a [fit] requital for that they used to reject Our Signs" (Surah Fussilat, 41:25-28) When the kuffaar are thrown into Hell they will be filled with regret for having disobeyed Allah and His Messenger and having followed their masters and leaders: "Verily Allah has cursed the unbelievers and has prepared for them a blazing Fire, to dwell therein; no protector will they find, nor helper. The Day that their faces will be turned upside down in the Fire, they will say, "Woe to us! Would that we had obeyed Allah and obeyed the Messenger". And they would say, "Our Rabb! We obeyed our chiefs and our great ones and they misled us as from the [Right] Path". (Surah Al-Ahzab, 33:64-67) (4) Hypocrisy: Allah promised Hell to the hypocrites, a promise that He has taken upon Himself to never break: "Allah has promised the hypocrites, men and women, and the rejecters of Faith, the fire of Hell, therein shall they dwell. Sufficient is it for them. For them is the curse of Allah and an enduring punishment." (Surah At-Taubah, 9:68) He has told us that the position of the hypocrites is the lowest level of Hell, which si where the heat and agony are most intense: "The hypocrites will be in the lowest depths of the Fire; no helper will you find for them". (Surah An-Nisa', 4:145) (5) Arrogance: This is a quality shared by most of the people of Hell. Allah (Glorified and Exalted be He) says: "But those who reject Our Signs and treat them with arrogance - they are the Companions (dwellers) of the Fire, to dwell therein [forever]" (Surah Al-A'raf, 7:36) Muslim devoted a chapter of his Saheeh to this issue, entitled Baab an-Naar Yadhkhulha al-Jabbaaroon wal-Jannah yadkhuluha ad-du'afaa (Hell will be entered by the arrogant and Paradise will be entered by the weak). In this chapter he refers to the debate between Paradise and Hell, what they said and what Allah (Glorified and Exalted be He) sad to them. Muslim quotes the hadeeth of Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) which goes back to the Prophet (Peace be upon him), in which it is stated that Hell said, "The arrogant and proud will enter me." According to another report, Hell said, "I will become rich (have too many) from the proud and arrogant". Allah (Glorified and Exalted be He) said, "You are My Punishment with which I will punish whomsoever I will". (Reported by Sahih Muslim, 4/2186, no. 2846) al-Bukhaari, Muslim and at-Tirmidhi report from Harithah ibn Wahb that the Messenger of Allah (Peace be upon him) said: "Shall I not tell you about the people of Paradise? Every meek person who is considered to be so humble that if he were to adjure something by Allah (Glorified and Exalted be He), He would fulfill it for him. Shall I not tell you about the people of Hell? Every haughty, greedy and proud person." (Reported by Jaami' al-Usool, 10/547, no. 8111) According to a report given by Muslim, he (Peace be upon him) said, "Every proud mean and arrogant person". This is confirmed by the Qur’an "Is there not in Hell an abode for the Haughty [i.e. arrogant]?" (Surah Az-Zumar, 39:60) "But today shall you be recompensed with a penalty of humiliation for that you were arrogant on earth without just cause, and that you [ever] transgressed" (Surah Al-Fath, 48:20) "Then, for such as had transgressed all bounds, and had preferred the life of this world, the Abode will be Hellfire." (Surah An-Nazi'aat, 79:37-39) |
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