Characteristics of Hellfire

This is post #38 in our series on Tafseer of Juz ‘Amma (click the link to see all posts in this series). Allah (‘azza wa jal) says in Surah Al-Ghaashiyah: هَلْ أَتَاكَ حَدِيثُ الْغَاشِيَةِ Translation: Has there reached you the report of the Overwhelming [event]? [Surah Ghashiya, verse 1] The surah starts with a question, to make you think. The companions would say: Allahu wa rasuluhu a’lam (know better), out of humbleness, even know they had an answer in mind.

This is post #34 in our series on Tafseer of Juz ‘Amma (click the link to see all posts in this series). The CN Tower, 150 stories high. Fa laa iqtahamaa al-aqabah. Continuing our discussion of Surah Balad, Allah (‘azza wa jal) says: أَلَمْ نَجْعَل لَّهُ عَيْنَيْنِ وَلِسَانًا وَشَفَتَيْنِ وَهَدَيْنَاهُ النَّجْدَيْنِ Translation: Have We not made for him two eyes? And a tongue and two lips? And have shown him the two ways?