Lost Blessings in the World to Come

Allah will never look at or speak to the unbelievers

Allah will not speak to them, or look at them, or purify them. They will have a painful punishment. (Surah Al ‘Imran: 77)
He will say: “Slink away into it and do not speak to Me.” (Surat al-Mu’minun: 108)

They will neither live nor die

. . . those who will roast in the Greatest Fire and then neither die nor live in it. (Surat al-A‘la: 12-13)

Death comes at him from every side but he does not die. And beyond him is relentless punishment. (Surah Ibrahim: 17)

Those who wanted to live on Earth for ever will want to die there

When they are flung into a narrow place in it, shackled together in chains, they will cry out there for destruction. (Surat al-Furqan: 13)

They will have lost all hope

It will not be eased for them. They will be crushed there by despair. (Surat az-Zukhruf: 75)

On the Day the Hour arrives, the evildoers will despair. (Surat ar-Rum: 12)

Instead of living in contentment and security, they will live in adversity and conflict

All this is certainly true – the bickering of the people of the Fire. (Surah Sad: 64)

Arguing in it with one another, they will say: “By Allah, we were plainly misguided.” (Surat ash-Shu‘ara’: 96-97)

He will say: “Do not argue in My presence, when I gave you advance warning of the Threat.” (Surah Qaf: 28)

They will be unhappy forever

. . . [A fire] in which only the most wretched will roast. (Surat al-Layl: 15)

They will never have a sincere and good friend; their only friend will be the Fire

[They will say:] “And now we have no one to intercede for us. We do not have a single loyal friend.” (Surat ash-Shu‘ara’: 100-101)

. . . they are the Companions of the Fire, remaining in it timelessly, forever. (Surat al-A‘raf: 36)

They will live with wrongdoers forever

When they turn their eyes towards the Companions of the Fire, they will exclaim: “Our Lord, do not place us with the wrongdoers!” (Surat al-A‘raf: 47)

Good news will be forbidden to them

On the Day that they see the angels, there will be no good news that Day for the evildoers. They will say: “There is an absolute ban.” (Surat al-Furqan: 22)

They will not know love or respect; they will be despised and looked down on

. . . the Day they are shoved roughly into the fire of Hell. (Surat at-Tur: 13)

Those who are herded headlong into Hell, such people are in the worst position. They are the most misguided from the way. (Surat al-Furqan: 34)

[People with intelligence remember Allah:] “Our Lord, those You cast into the Fire, You have indeed disgraced. The wrongdoers will have no helpers.” (Surah Al ‘Imran: 192)

They will want light but will be unable to find it

. . . [they] will say to those who believe, “Wait for us so that we can borrow some of your light.” They will be told: “Go back and look for light.” And a wall will be erected between them with a gate in it, on the inside of which there will be mercy but before whose exterior lies the punishment. (Surat al-Hadid: 13)

They will have the most evil home

. . . the Day when the excuses of the wrongdoers will not help them. The curse will be on them, and they will have the most evil Home. (Surah Ghafir: 52)

YataTheir beds and coverlets will be Hell

They will have Hell as a resting-place and covering layers on top of them. That is how We repay wrongdoers. (Surat al-A‘raf: 41)

They will live in dark, misty places

. . . and the murk of thick black smoke, providing no coolness and no pleasure. (Surat al-Waqi‘a: 43-44)

They will find themselves in narrow, restricted places

When they are flung into a narrow place in it, shackled together in chains, they will cry out there for destruction. (Surat al-Furqan: 13)

They will be gathered up sightless

We will gather the evildoers sightless on that Day. (Surah Ta Ha: 102)

They will never find quiet and refreshment

. . . not tasting any coolness there or any drink, except for boiling water and scalding pus. (Surat an-Naba’: 24-25)

. . . and the murk of thick black smoke, providing no coolness and no pleasure. (Surat al-Waqi‘a: 43-44)

They will lose their good looks and become ugly; they will take on a revolting appearance

We pursued them with a curse in this world, and on the Day of Resurrection they will be hideous and spurned. (Surat al-Qasas: 42)

And faces that Day will be glowering. (Surat al-Qiyama: 24)

On the Day of Resurrection, you will see those who lied against Allah with their faces blackened. Do not the arrogant have a dwelling place in Hell? (Surat az-Zumar: 60)

Eyes downcast, darkened by debasement, that will be the Day that they were promised. (Surat al- Ma‘arij: 44)

All blessings and all kinds of food to be found in Paradise will be forbidden to them

They will say: “Allah has forbidden them to the unbelievers.” (Surat al-A‘raf: 50)

They will live in fear

Do not consider Allah to be unaware of what the wrongdoers do. He is merely deferring them to a Day on which their sight will be transfixed, rushing headlong – heads back, eyes vacant, hearts hollow. (Surah Ibrahim: 42-43)

Eyes downcast, darkened by debasement, that will be the Day that they were promised. (Surat al-Ma‘arij: 44)

Their only food will be boiling water, blood, pus, and fire

Then they will have a boiling brew to drink on top of it. (Surat as-Saffat: 67)

And beyond him is Hell, where he will be given pus to drink. He gulps at it, but can hardly swallow it. (Surah Ibrahim: 16-17)

. . . and drink scalding water on top of it, slurping like thirst-crazed camels. (Surat al-Waqi‘a: 54-55)

This! So let them taste it – boiling water and scalding pus. (Surah Sad: 57)

. . . nor any food, except exuding pus. (Surat al-Haqqa: 36)

[They] take nothing into their bellies but fire. (Surat al-Baqara: 174)

Instead of the blessings of Paradise, they will eat Zaqqum and a bitter thorny bush

The Tree of az-Zaqqum is the food of the wicked, seething in the belly like molten brass, as boiling water bubbles and seethes. “Seize him and drag him bodily.” (Surat ad-Dukhan: 43-46)

Is that better by way of hospitality or the tree of Zaqqum, which We have made to be an ordeal for the wrongdoers? It is a tree that emerges in the depths of the blazing fire. Its fruits are just like the heads of satans. (Surat as-Saffat: 62-65)

[You unbelievers] will eat from the tree of Zaqqum, filling your stomachs with it. (Surat al-Waqi‘a: 52-53)

. . . and food that chokes, and a painful punishment. (Surat al-Muzzammil: 13)

They have no food but a bitter thorny bush, which neither nourishes nor satisfies. (Surat al-Ghashiyya: 6-7)