وَالَّذِينَ يَقُولُونَ رَبَّنَا اصْرِفْ عَنَّا عَذَابَ جَهَنَّمَ ۖ إِنَّ عَذَابَهَا كَانَ غَرَامًا
"And those who say "Our Lord divert from us the punishment of Hell, indeed it is a grievous punishment" (Al-Furqan 65)
//walatheena yaqooloona rabbanaa asrif 3naa 3thaaba jahannama inna 3thaabahaa kaana gharaama//
"Indeed worst is it as an abode and place of rest" 66
(note that the number on this hadith is up one because the people at the website list bismillahi ar-Rahman ar-Rahim as ayah 1)
Stranger: Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu.
Dr: Wa alaikum assalam wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu. Are you ready? You were absent last week.
Stranger: I'm ready, lets dig up some tafsir.
Dr: Vocabulary first. Yaqooloona - they say (referring to what the mu'mineen say) it is in the present continuous because the believers say it constantly, daily. There is a dua to say immediately after the salams of fajr and maghrib prayer. It goes like this:
"Allahumma ajrnee min an-nar"
It is nice and short, memorise it and make this dua after fajr and maghrib prayer before you make any other dua.
asrif - this is in command form as a request - a dua to Allah to do what is in that verb - to divert or change direction.
3thaaba jahannama - the punishment (3thab) of Jahannam - Hell. This is what the believers as Allah the All Powerful to divert from them. And anyone who knows anything about hellfire will want it diverted from them! They go on to describe in a few words the horror of the punishment of Hellfire by describing the punishment as (gharaaman)
Gharam is a term we will focus most upon today.
Stranger: Good because I find none of the English translations of the meanings of Quran really give justice to the significance of this word.
Dr: In Duniya, think of the most absolutely worst place to exist - in the sewers, in a Iraqi prison, where ever, it is bad but absolutely not even a scratch on the horrors of Hellfire.
Gharaman in this ayah is referring to the Hellfire. Hell fire wants to grab the disbelievers, the fire is angry. Imagine someone killed your child for example, you would be angry and outraged beyond words, and if you came face to face with the killer you would want to strike out, you would not be able to keep yourself back. Hellfire is like this, it is angry at the disbelievers denial of the truth, of their disbelief in Allah the Creator of the worlds.
On the Day of Reckoning, we will be able to see Hellfire, and millions of angels (70,000 chains or leashes being pulled by 70000 angels each(hadith recorded in Muslim) all these angels if you calculate = 49 million angels) and the size of these angels the distance between their ear and their shoulder is 500 years riding on a fast horse (recorded in abu Dawood), hold back the hellfire from jumping out angrily at the disbelievers. It is like the Hellfire is a living creature, not just a fire. In a hadith recorded by al-Bukhari, Rasool Allah peace upon him said that the fire of this world is one part of seventy of Hellfire.
There are some Ayat that describe how Hellfire will roar and boil. they are:
إِذَا رَأَتْهُمْ مِنْ مَكَانٍ بَعِيدٍ سَمِعُوا لَهَا تَغَيُّظًا وَزَفِير
“When the Hellfire sees them from a distant place, they will hear its fury and roaring,” (Qur’an 25:12).and;
إِذَآ أُلْقُواْ فِيهَا سَمِعُواْ لَهَا شَهِيقًا وَهِىَ تَفُورُ تَكَادُ تَمَيَّزُ مِنَ الغَيْظِ
“When they are thrown into it, they hear from it a (dreadful)
inhaling while it boils up. It almost bursts with rage […]” (Qur’an 67:7-8).Many people disbelieve and Hellfire is amazed and enraged and it will be asked of the disbelievers, "didn't messengers come to you?" and the disbelievers will no longer deny they will reply, "Indeed and we denied them."
Stranger: SubhanAllah this is scary stuff.
Dr: You know when I give lectures about the characteristics of the Mu'mineen here in Sana'a, the women ask me exasperatedly, "Why are you talking about all this horror of Hellfire, we came to hear about being Mu'mineen".
Stranger: Yeah, and what do you tell them?
Dr: I tell them this ayah that we are studying today - fearing hellfire is a characteristic of a mu'min and how better to fear hellfire than to know about its horror? sah am la?
Stranger: Yes the more you know the more you fear, or love, or hate. Like when we study sirat an-nabi (life of Rasool Allah) one cannot help but love him more and more. The more we know about Hellfire indeed the more we will do as Allah wants for his servants in worshiping Him, the One.
Thank you Dr for today's lesson, sorry about my absence for the past two weeks, really I feel I have been fed well today.
Dr: Allahumma barik fiki
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