The Two Roads - Heaven and Hell

through his teeth will knock him back into the middle. There will be no
question of him surviving or not as his nightmare will not end there, but
against his will he will be brought back to life again and again to face an
ever growing, painful punishment.
al-Bukh\r|
This person was guilty of consuming interest. The rocks being thrust
into his mouth are only part of the foretold punishment.
He will be with iron hammers, shattered: his traces fragmented to dust,
He will be remade, then again scattered, as repayment for his lust.
The accursed already underwent the incessant pounding from Munkar
and Nak|r in the grave. It is an accepted view that the punishment of
the grave will not match the severity of the punishment of Hell. If a
person was crushed to an unimaginable state in the grave, then All\h I
alone knows what lies in store for those who are doomed to Hell.
Whether a body is burnt to cinders in Hell due to the punishment, or
whether it is made to explode, or even if it were to melt or it were to be
beaten to a grim, bloody pulp; it will be recreated, not out of mercy or
to be granted a second chance, but as a means of inflicting the severest
punishments upon the person. It will signify that there will be no end to
the hellish torture which he will unavoidably face. This will be the
punishment for ignoring All\h’s I law and for living in accordance
with one’s own carnal desires and greed, for living for one’s lust.
Into a fiery furnace he will be flung, his blood and brain will boil,
In a lurid bloody lake he will drown, swimming was too great a toil.
Prophet Mu#ammad r while seeing the horrors of Hell was made to
observe a structure similar to a giant furnace, in which he witnessed
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