Ash-Shu'araa (The Poets)

Verse 96 - 99

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    96. “And they will say, when they are mutually quarrelling therein: ”

    97. “By Allah! We were certainly in manifest error,”

    98. “When we made you equal to the Lord of the worlds.”

    99. “And none but the guilty ones led us astray.”

    Contrast to the environment of Paradise, which is entirely full of safety and peace, the Hell is always full of blame, enmity and curse: the curses of the followers to the mischief leaders, the blame of the sinners unto Satan, the hate of the worshipped (deities) unto the polytheists, and the act of quitting the criminals from each other.

    There are many verses found in the Qur’an about these aspects, including these holy verses which illustrate the scene of the conflict and quarrel of those three Hellish groups. When they are in the Hell, they quarrel both with their deities and with each other.

    The holy verse says:

    “And they will say, when they are mutually quarrelling herein: ”

    Yes, the misguided worshippers will say:

    “By Allah! We were certainly in manifest error,” “When we made you equal to the Lord of the worlds.”

    But nobody misguided us but the sinners, those sinners who were the leaders and the chiefs of our society and, in order to protect their own benefits, they led us to this way and caused our misery.

    There is this probability that the purpose of ‘the guilty ones’ is the criminals, Satans, or their aberrant ancestors who caused them to be in that way.

    However, on the Hereafter Day everybody tries to lay his fault and blame on another’s shoulders.