26سَأُصليهِ سَقَرَMuhammad Asad[Hence,] I shall cause him to endure hell-fire [in the life to come]!1This is unquestionably the earliest instance of the term saqar ("hell-fire"'), one of the seven metaphorical names given in the Qur'an to the concept of the suffering in the hereafter which man brings upon himself by sinning and deliberately remaining blind and deaf, in this world, to spiritual truths (cf. surah 15, note 33). The allegorical character of this and all other Qur'anic descriptions of man's condition and destiny in the hereafter is clearly alluded to in the subsequent verse as well as in verses 28 ff.