Ar-Rahmaan (The Beneficent)

Verse 43 - 45

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    43. This is the Hell which the sinners denied.

    44. They shall move between Hellfire and the fierce boiling water.

    45. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both [jinn and men] deny?

    Denial of Paradise, Hell, and Resurrection lead man to join the people of Hell.

    The antecedent of the Arabic demonstrative pronoun hadhihi:

    ("this")

    in the blessed Verse 43 is the preceding blessed Verse. It is as if angels or guards of Hell say unto sinners that this is Hell against which Prophets warned you but you denied and belied it out of arrogance, vanity, enmity, and ignorance. The blessed Verse 44 further depicts Hell and its excruciating torments saying that sinners move between Hell and boiling water.

    The Arabic word hamim denotes:

    "boiling water"

    and the Arabic word an employed herein designates the utmost degree of heat. Thus, they burn and thirst and ask for water on the one hand and boiling water will given unto them or boiling water will be splashed upon them on the other and it will be an excruciating chastisement. The blessed Verse 45 is a serious and awakening warning and a Divine Favor:

    "Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both [jinn and men] deny?"