Ash-Shu'araa (The Poets)

93. “Besides Allah? Do they help you or help themselves?’”

94. " So they shall be thrown into it, - they and the erring ones,”

95. “And the hosts of 'Iblis, all together.”

Reproach and blame is one of the spiritual chastisements of Hereafter.

On the Hereafter Day beliefs and thoughts of men will be questioned of. Therefore, this holy verse implies whether the deities, other than Allah, can then help the idolaters for the difficulties and calamities that they will be facing with.

Or can the idols invite someone to help the idolaters? Or even does anyone come to help the idols themselves? But they do not have any answer to give to these questions; and no one expects such a thing from them either.

The verse says:

“Besides Allah? Do they help you or help themselves?’”

At this time, the whole deities will be gathered and, all of them, accompanied with their worshippers, will be thrown into Hell Fire; and, according to the opinion of some of the commentators, every one of them will be thrown over the other.

The Qur’an says:

“So they shall be thrown into it, - they and the erring ones,” “And the hosts of 'Iblis, all together.”

In fact, these three groups: idols, the worshippers of the idols, and the hosts of Satan, who were the dealers of this sin and deviation, will be piled in the Hell, in this manner that they will be sent into Hell one after another.

The Qur’anic word /kubkibu/ originally is derived from /kub/ which means to throw something into a pit by face, and its repetition in /kubkibu/ indicates to the repetition of this fall.

This shows that when they are thrown into the Hell, they are, like a stone which is thrown from a height into a valley. At first, it falls in a place and then from that place it falls in another place until when it falls at the bottom of the valley.