DESCRIPTION OF HELL - [5] Rage and Fury of Hell, Screaming and Calling out to Denizens of Hell, and their Confinement in Narrow Cells

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Rage and Fury of Hell, Screaming and Calling out to Denizens of Hell, and their Confinement in Narrow Cells;

إِذَآ أُلْقُوا۟ فِيهَا سَمِعُوا۟ لَهَا شَهِيقًۭا وَهِىَ تَفُورُ ٧

‘When they are flung therein they hear its roaring as it boileth up,"

— M. Pickthall” 

(Surah Mulk, ' Ayat  7). 

Muhammad Ashraf ‘Ali Thanwi writes in Bayanul-Qur’an that God will either grant Hell perception and wrath and it will expend its fury on the deniers of truth, or the aim is to explain the conception of Hell with an example that Hell would thus display its feeling of anger. The moment Hell beholds the sinners. even from: afar it would yell furiously, and when they were shackled and committed to one of its narrow cells they would bitterly yearn for death. (Furqan). 

“Hell will yet be a hundred years away from the hellish persons when Hell shall behold them and they shall behold Hell. Upon. seeing them Hell will start convulsing with fury and yelling with intense rage. The hellish people will bear all this and when finally they shall be thrust into it they will yearn for Death just as in the mortal world, they used to say in times of distress”’.!

It is narrated on the authority of Ibn Abi Hatim that the Holy Prophet (Muhammad Rasulullahﷺ) affirmed that Hell had two eyes by reciting verse pésly 131.  (Ibn Kathir).

Although Hell is a spacious place the sinners would be kept in small, narrow cells. Some of the narration on the authority of the Holy Prophet (Muhammad Rasulullahﷺ) reveals that the sinners would be thrust into Hell as nails are hammered into a wall. 

(bn Kathir).

‘Hell shall call forth such a man who had turned his back on truth in the mortal world and had cared not for obedience and had gathered wealth but had been reluctant to spend it and had concealed it.” 

(Surah Ma‘ary).

Ibn Kathir reveals from the plain of Resurrection that Hell would pick up the sinners as a bird picks up grain. This verse refers to the hoarders of wealth.  Qatadaرضي الله عنه interpreted this verse as follows: “The person mentioned in the verse is one who, despite God’s directives, does not spend wealth and overlooks the sense of right and wrong in its acccumulation.”? ‘Abdullah bin Hakimرضي الله عنه felt so afraid on account of this verse that he never closed the strings of his purse and kept spending his wealth in the name of God. 

Hasan Basri رضي الله عنه used to say: ‘“‘O Man ! being aware of the Divine threat, yet you amass riches ?”? 

The Holy Prophet (Muhammad Rasulullahﷺ) observed: 

“Man, on the Doomsday, will suffer bitter shame as he stands before God in abject humility like a call of goat.”” The Almighty would address such niggards: ‘Did I not bestow upon you animals, slaves, servants, and other blessings? And what did you do in return ?” There he would say: “I accumulated and added to them, and thus left behind me more than I was granted. Now, permit me to fetch all of them.” The inference to be drawn is that man would not have sent any provisions in the form of good deeds to help him in the next world. Hence he shall be thrust into Hell. 

(Tirmidhi). 

It has also been observed that this world is the home of that person who does not have any home; it is the wealth of that person who does not have wealth, and only he amasses wealth for the world who has no wisdom (Mishkat Al Musabih). Baihaqi in Shu‘ab-alIman, has copied a tradition which states that when a person passes away, angels remark, ‘*What provision has he sent ahead for the hfe hereafter’, but the people say: ‘“‘What has he left behind in this world?

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