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Attitude displayed in adverse and
distressing situations
From time to time, a person may find himself in uncomfortable
situations such as on a street corner piled with garbage, in a foul-
smelling kitchen or in narrow, dark, dank places. For a believer,
even dirty and distressing places have their purpose in creation.
These kinds of places remind the believer of Hell and of the misery
in that place whose filth surpasses any to be found in this world. In
the Qur'an, Allah reveals that the Fire is a place of darkness, dirt
and filth:
"It is indeed an evil lodging and abode." (Surat al-Furqan: 66)
And the Companions of the Left: what of the Companions of
the Left? Amid searing blasts and scalding water and the murk
of thick black smoke, providing no coolness and no pleasure.
(Surat al-Waqi'a: 41-44)
When they are flung into a narrow place in it, shackled to-
gether in chains, they will cry out there for destruction. "Do
not cry out today for just one destruction, cry out for
many destructions!" (Surat al-Furqan: 13-14)
A person who remembers these verses will immedi-
ately pray that the Lord will deliver him from the pains
of the Fire and will ask forgiveness for the things he has
done wrong.
According to Allah's description in the Qur'an, the
Fire is a foul-smelling, constricted, noisy, dark, sooty,
dank smoky place. There are even more dangerous
areas within it and a scorching heat that penetrates the
cells. The Fire has the most disgusting food and drink.
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