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Message: <blockquote data-quote="naben" data-source="post: 169588" data-attributes="member: 17397">4-b-Hell, often called simply "the fire" (al-nur), is depicted in the Koran as a place of unending torment, filled with flame, acrid smoke, boiling waters, and the wails of its unfortunate inhabitants. The damned can gain no comfort: "he is given to drink of oozing pus, the which he gulps, and can scarce swallow, and death comes upon him from every side, yet he cannot die; and still beyond him is a harsh chastisement" (Koran 14:16–17, . Further, "as often as their skins are wholly burned, we shall give them in exchange other skins, that they may taste the chastisement" (Koran 4:56). As noted, however, some Muslims ascribe to God such profound mercy that he ultimately rescues even the most undeserving sinner from these torments.described as having seven gates, leading to the popular notion that the Fire consists of seven descending layers of increasing torment. An elaborate structure of relative punishments came to be worked out around the seven layers of Fire, and later tradition supplied each of the gates with guardians who torture the damned. At the bottom of the lowest level grows the dreaded Zaqqum tree with the heads of demons for flowers. The Qur'an offers a number of specific indications of the tortures of the Fire: its flames crackle and roar; it has fierce boiling waters, scorching wind, and black smoke; the people of the Fire are sighing, wailing, and wretched.    Islam teaches that Hell is a real place prepared by God for those who do not believe in Him, rebel against His laws, and reject His messengers. Hell is an actual place, not a mere state of mind or a spiritual entity. The horrors, pain, anguish, and punishment are all real, but different in nature than their earthly counterparts. Hell is the ultimate humiliation and loss, and nothing is worse than it.Here are a few Qur’anic passages that describe ‘Hell’:    “Soon I will cast him into Hell Fire. And what will explain to you what is Hellfire? Nothing does it allow to endure, and nothing does it leave alone! Darkening and changing the color of man! Over it are nineteen (angels as keepers of Hell).” (Qur’an 74:26-30)    “Surely, the disbelievers will be in the torment of Hell to abide therein forever. (The torment) will not be lightened for them, and they will be plunged into destruction with deep regrets, sorrows and in despair therein. We wronged them not, but they were the wrongdoers. And they will cry: ‘O Malik! Let your Lord make an end of us’ He will say: ‘Surely, you shall abide forever.’ Indeed We have brought the truth to you, but most of you have a hatred for the truth” (Qur’an 43:74-78)    “Take him, and fetter him, and then roast him in Hell, then in a chain of seventy cubits’ length insert him!” (Qur’an 69:30-32)    “..then fear the Fire, whose fuel is men and stones, prepared for the disbelievers.” (Qur’an 2:24)    “For the damned garments of fire shall be cut, and there shall be poured over their heads boiling water, whereby whatsoever is in their bellies and their skins shall be melted; for them await hooked iron rods; as often as they desire in their anguish to come forth from it, they shall be restored into it, and: ‘Taste the chastisement of the burning!’” (Qur’an 22:19-22)According to Islam, who will be sent to ‘Hell’?     If you believe in only part of the Scripture, you will suffer in this life and go to Hell in the next. (Qur’an 2:85)    Jews are the greediest of all humankind. They’d like to live 1000 years. But they are going to Hell. (Qur’an 2:96)    Those who fail in their duty to Allah are proud and sinful. They will all go to Hell. (Qur’an 2:206)    Those who disbelieve shall be overcome and gathered unto Hell. (Qur’an 3:12)    Those who brag about doing good will go to Hell. (Qur’an 3:188)    Disbelievers will go to Hell. (Qur’an 3:196)    Don’t steal from orphans (or Allah will burn you forever in Hell). (Qur’an 4:10)    Believers who kill believers will face the awful doom of Hell. (Qur’an 4:93)    Those who oppose the messenger and become unbelievers will go to Hell. (Qur’an 4:115)    Allah will gather hypocrites and disbelievers into Hell. (Qur’an 4:140)    Disbelievers are the rightful owners of Hell. (Qur’an 5:10)    Christians will be burned in the Fire. (Qur’an 5:72)It is believed, in Islam, that Muslim sinners that have been sent to ‘Hell’ (i.e. adherents of Islam who unfortunately didn’t ‘make the grade’, as it were) will be pardoned by ‘God’ at some point, and allowed entry into ‘Paradise’.<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nj3H9-rVC5k" target="_blank">Arabic : last breath - Ø¨ÙˆØ®Ø§Ø·Ø± - Ø§Ù„Ù†ÙØ³ Ø§Ù„Ø£Ø®ÙŠØ±  - BoHameedUAE      - YouTube</a></blockquote>

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