//yudhaa3af lahu al3athabu yawmal-qiyaamati wa yakhlud fihi muhaana//
Stranger: This ayah directly links with the previous ayah regarding which actions earn this punishment - ayah 68
The three crimes listed in ayah 68 - committing shirk, killing unjustly, committing zina attract the double or in some translations multiplied punishment that is referred to in this ayah. Dr can you tell me is the punishment doubled or multiplied. I ask because of the differences in English translations.
Dr: I prefer it means doubled. Either way doubled or multiplied it is still an awful punishment. It is doubled because the criminal is punished for his crimes and for shirk. Let me explain that. If one starts committing shirk and praying to or worshipping something or someone other than Allah The One then it is natural that they will start to incline to other criminal behaviour. When someone kills without due cause, his iman leaves him at that point of the crime as well as for zina a persons iman leaves them at the time of the crime, so having your iman leave you means that you have worshipped other than Allah be it the whispers of Satan to satisfy your immediate desires or a corrupt leader or what ever else one might worship and follow. It was and still is well established that if someone has no iman then killing and zina are easy for them so they get the double penalty in Hellfire. They are living in Hell - that is one punishment and they are there with huge humiliation and that is the doubling of their punishment. The ones who associate others in Lordship with Allah and kill and do zina are very arrogant in duniya (this world) and so that arrogance needs to be punished by humiliation in akhirah (Hereafter).
In the ayah the verb "to double" is in the passive construction so that the punishment is "marfoo3" that is a raised importance in grammar - thus emphasising the punishment in the sentence.
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