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Sura 36
Aya 63
63
هٰذِهِ جَهَنَّمُ الَّتي كُنتُم توعَدونَ

Ali Unal

“This is Hell, with which you were threatened (repeatedly1).
  • The Qur’ān repeatedly threatens us with Hell and warns against it. God made the first warning when Satan refused to prostrate before Adam, upon him be peace, after Adam’s creation, and he was allowed to try to seduce humankind until the end of time: My servants – you shall have no authority over any of them, unless it be such as follow you being rebellious against God, as you are). And for all such (rebellious people), Hell is the promised place (15: 42–44).
    The Qur’ān makes many similar reiterations. It is the Book of not only law, prayer, wisdom, worship, and servanthood to God, but also of commands, invitations, invocations, reflection, glad tidings, and warnings. It is a holy book containing books for all of our spiritual needs: a heavenly book that, like a sacred library, contains numerous booklets from which all the saints, eminently truthful people, all purified and discerning scholars, and those well-versed in knowledge of God have derived their own specific ways, and which illuminate each way and answer their followers’ needs. It is because of this and the fact that all the teachings of the Qur’ān need reiteration to explain and establish them in people’s mind and hearts that the Qur’ān has many reiterated statements. However, in most cases, they are of the kind that explain truths from various perspectives and in different styles according to different conditions, times, cases, and audience. The Qur’ān calls this style tasrīf.