Surah: 74. al-Muddathir

fleeing from a lion? that is to say fleeing from it with absolute fright.

Nay but everyone of them desires to be given unrolled scrolls from God exalted be He enjoining them to follow the Prophet s as they said before ‘And even then we will not believe your ascension until you bring down for us a book that we may read’ Q. 1793.

‘What has landed you in what has made you enter Saqar?’

They will say ‘We were not of those who prayed.

Nor did we ever feed the needy.

Every soul is held to ransom by what it earns it is ransomed and requited for its deeds with the Fire

except those of the right hand namely the believers who will be saved from it and who will be

in gardens questioning one another

about the guilty and their predicament; and they will say to them after all those who believed in the One God muwahhidūn are brought out of the Fire

There are nineteen keepers standing over it angels its keepers; a certain disbeliever who was a mighty stalwart said ‘I will avail you seventeen of them if you avail me just two’. God exalted be He says