THE ACCOUNTS OF THE DAY OF RESURRECTION -No:8 - The Punishment for not Expending in the Way of God

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The Punishment for not Expending in the Way of God;

 “Such people who hoard gold and silver and keep them in treasures and do not spend in the way of God, you should convey to those people tidings of dreadful torments. They shall be subjected to this torment on the day when these riches (gold and silver) will first be heated red in Hell Fire and then the foreheads, the chest-bones, and the backsides of these people will be stamped with red-hot gold and silver and they shall be told, 

فَإِذَا ٱنسَلَخَ ٱلْأَشْهُرُ ٱلْحُرُمُ فَٱقْتُلُوا۟ ٱلْمُشْرِكِينَ حَيْثُ وَجَدتُّمُوهُمْ وَخُذُوهُمْ وَٱحْصُرُوهُمْ وَٱقْعُدُوا۟ لَهُمْ كُلَّ مَرْصَدٍۢ ۚ فَإِن تَابُوا۟ وَأَقَامُوا۟ ٱلصَّلَوٰةَ وَءَاتَوُا۟ ٱلزَّكَوٰةَ فَخَلُّوا۟ سَبِيلَهُمْ ۚ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ غَفُورٌۭ رَّحِيمٌۭ ٥

‘“‘This is the same gold and silver which you had hoarded for your use. Now suffer the taste of what you had amassed.”” 

(Surah Taubah : Ayat 5).

۞ یَـٰۤأَیُّهَا ٱلَّذِینَ ءَامَنُوۤا۟ إِنَّ كَثِیرࣰا مِّنَ ٱلۡأَحۡبَارِ وَٱلرُّهۡبَانِ لَیَأۡكُلُونَ أَمۡوَ ٰلَ ٱلنَّاسِ بِٱلۡبَـٰطِلِ وَیَصُدُّونَ عَن سَبِیلِ ٱللَّهِۗ وَٱلَّذِینَ یَكۡنِزُونَ ٱلذَّهَبَ وَٱلۡفِضَّةَ وَلَا یُنفِقُونَهَا فِی سَبِیلِ ٱللَّهِ فَبَشِّرۡهُم بِعَذَابٍ أَلِیمࣲ

 "O you who believe! Indeed, many of the rabbis and the monks surely eat (the) wealth (of) the people in falsehood and hinder from (the) way (of) Allah. And those who hoard the gold and the silver, and (do) not spend it in (the) way (of) Allah, [so] give them tidings of a punishment painful."

[Surah Taubah : Ayat 34]

The Punishment for not Expending Wealth on the Poor ‘And the man to whom the scroll of deeds is handed over in his left hand will wistfully exclaim :

“It would have been better if I had not received my Deed Scroll at all and if I had not known my accounts! It would have been better if death had closed everything (Doomsday should not have come so that no account would have to be rendered). My wealth availed me not! My honor is gone!” As for this man, the angels shall be ordained: ‘‘Take hold of him. Throw a halter around his neck. Then throw him into Hell and thereafter shackle him in a chain seventy yards long, because this man did not believe in Allah. And (apart from not feeding the poor on his own account) he did not induce other people to give food to the poor. Hence he has no friend here, nor is there anything for him to eat save the pus of wounds which will be swallowed by none other than the greatest sinners.’’

The word Ghusleen popularly means the Dhovan, the water with which wounds have been washed. According to the interpretation of Abdullah Ibn ‘Abbas (رضي الله عنه) Gausleen is meant the pus and blood which oozes out of the wound. Abu Sa‘id Khudri (رضي الله عنه) reports a hadith of the Holy Prophet (Muhammad Rasulullah ) that “If a bucket of Ghusleen were to be thrown into the world, its foul smell would spread around the whole world and make everyone feel unpleasant.”

Nauf Shami (رَحِمَهَا ٱللَّٰهُ) reports that every yard of the years-long chain is equal to seventy fathoms and the measure of each fathom is equivalent to the distance between the holy city of

Makkah and Kufa It has been reported by   Abdullah Ibn ‘Abbas (رضي الله عنه)and other commentators that this chain shall be entered into the anus and bringing it out through the nostrils, it will then be thrown around the body so that the man will be completely shackled. (Durr Manthur). According to this holy verse he who does not induce others to feed the poor is also liable to punishment. Therefore we should make it a point to induce our relatives and friends to feed the poor and of course, by inducing others to be charitable to the poor our own stinginess ‘in this respect will be lessened.

The learned have explained that the mention of ‘foreheads etc.’ means all four sides of the human body. By forehead it meant the front part of the body; the chest bones imply the right and left sides; and the backside means the back part of the physique. The implication is that the entire body of a man will be stamped with red-hot metal. A tradition confirms this by relating that the human physique shall be stamped from head to foot. Some scholars have written that these three parts of the body are peculiarly delicate in so far as even the slightest pain in these parts feels intolerable. Some scholars have written that these three parts have been mentioned _ especially because a man sees a beggar in front of his face he turns his back upon the beggar and goes away. It is for this reason that these three organs have been exclusively selected to suffer torture.

Allah/ Rasulullah / علیہ السلام    /رضي الله عنه /رَحِمَهَا ٱللَّٰهُ