The Greatest Torture in Hell is to Remain there Forever

The people of Hell are of two kinds. There are people who will be permanently staying in there, for there is no death any more. These people will have an everlasting torture in Hell, from which they will never escape. Those people are classified differently; the highest is imprisoned in a hole at the very bottom of Hell, if this hole were to be uncovered, then Hell with its entirety asks Allah, His Almighty, to be saved from its heat. The lowest class and of a less torture is the one who will have two smoldering embers placed under his feet, of which his brain will boil. Although this is the least tortured sinner in Hell, he will think, and feel that he is the most tortured.

Imagining an everlasting life in Hell is actually beyond imagination, and it is heart breaking. Just imagining, that a person is in a prison, even if it were of the type found in this life, where he is sentenced to life, without an escape, not even through death, or anything else, but to remain there forever, is enough to kill a person of sadness, grief, and sorrow. So, how about a prison with walls, doors, food, and drink are all of fire! So, how about this prison being a well, when a tortured sinner is thrown in it, he falls on his head for seventy years before reaching its bottom.

Moreover, how about the fire that we are familiar with in our life being only one seventieth of Hell’s fire, in other words every fraction of the other sixty nine fractions being as of the same severe heat of the heat of this life’s fire. To truly visualize an everlasting Life in such a torture is something that the human beings’ ability stops short of.

Prophet Muhammad, Allah’s peace and blessings be upon him, said: “I wonder how can a person, who wants to escape Hell, sleep!” For anyone who knows this Hell, believes in it, and is aware that it is present at the moment, and if he dies at any moment he could enter it, wouldn’t be able to sleep, since it is waiting. Yet it is negligence, the habit of postponing repentance, and the indulgence in the temptations that surround Hell.