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The gates of Hell and its stages The Qura’nic des c r i p tions of Hell

From the verses about hell we learn that on the whole hell is the center for terrifying punishments full of a blazing fire with different gates.

 This fire is not like the fire of this world but is a fire with the following features:

1. Its fuel are humans and stones

2. It is a fire that comes out of the hearts and its first flames burn in the hearts.

3. It is a fire that shatters and destroys

4. It is a fire with many stages and it pulls the sinners to it.

5. It is a fire that roars when it sees the sinners. Verse 12 of Surah Furqaan says:

“They will hear its roaring and raging when it sees them from a distance.”

6. It is a moving fire. It is said in verse 23 of Surah Fajr: “And the hell will be brought close that Day and man will remember but what will that remembrance avail him?”

7. This unseen blazing fire surrounds the disbelievers though the screens prevent us from seeing it. (Verse 49 of Surah Taubah)

These names may have led come commentators to interpret this as symbolic or spiritual and have regarded its blazing fire to be symbolic and unseen. These interpretations arte not compatible with the verses about Hell so we have to say the fire of hell is as different from the fire of this world as the bounties of Paradise are different from the bounties in this world.

 

The gates of Hell and its stages The Qura’nic des c r i p tions of Hell
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