#hell-fire

When I was growin’ up in northeast Alabama, revival season arrived with all the subtlety of a freight train in a thunderstorm. One day, the church bulletin board was hangin’ there mindin’ its own business. The next, it sprouted a sign three feet tall that hollered REVIVAL STARTS MONDAY. GET YOUR HEARTS RIGHT WITH GOD. I don’t know whose job it was to pick the dates, but they had the uncanny…

If you grew up in northeast Alabama under the spell of the Congregational Holiness Church, then you know the altar call was never gentle. It was not an invitation. It was not a suggestion. It was a five-alarm spiritual emergency, and the way those preachers shouted it, you would have thought Heaven had a very small window of business hours. The preacher always waited until the tent’s temperature…

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The Death of the People of Hell

By Imam An-Nawawi

The Death of the People of Hell

  Question:

Will anyone die in Hell?

Is there any authentic hadith to that effect or not?

If it is true, then what is the nature of this death, and to whom will it happen?

  Answer:

It was reported in Sahih Muslim that Abu Sa’id al-Khudri, may Allah be pleased with him, reported that the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, said,

“As for the people of Hell, they are its inhabitants, and they neither live therein nor die. But there are people who will enter Hell because of their sins – or mistakes – so Allah will cause them to die once, then when they become like coal, He will give permission for intercession (for them).

They will be brought group by group to the rivers of Paradise.

Then it will be said, ‘O people of Paradise! Pour water on them.’

Then they will grow like seeds (i.e., the seeds of herbs and aromatic plants, or it was said, small plants that grow in between grasses, or it may mean wheat).’”

  The scholars said what is meant by the people of Hell are its unbelieving inhabitants, who will never come out of it and never die at all.

Allah says (what means):

“As for those who disbelieve, for them is the fire of Hell; it does not destroy them so that they die, nor is its torment lightened for them. Thus We punish every disbeliever” [Fatir 35:36]

As for the sinners among those who believe in the Oneness of Allah, those who have committed major sins (kaba’ir), they will be punished in accordance with the degree of their sins for a period decreed by Allah, then they will die a lesser death such that they no longer feel anything, for a period decreed by Allah.

Then they will be brought out dead, turned into coals and carried like luggage, and they will be thrown into the rivers of Paradise and the water of life will be poured over them. Then they will grow, like wheat at first, but quickly, like herbs. Then they will get stronger and be fully formed and will be taken to their homes in Paradise.

  And Allah knows best.

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I never see thy face but I think upon hell-fire. William Shakespeare William Shakespeare

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The facts behind the Hell-fire club

Could it be that the London club mentioned in the Maier Files episode 2, is inspired by the Hell-fire Club? The Hell-Fire club in London is the most notorious “Satanist” organization in eighteenth-century Britain, the Hell-Fire Club was originally founded in London in 1719 by Philip, Duke of Wharton, a liberal politician and atheist who set out to ridicule the religious orthodoxies of his time by holding mock-Satanist ceremonies in a tavern near St James’s Square, London. The Club was closed down the next year after it became a political liability to Wharton, who went on to become the Grand Master of English Freemasons in 1722, and then left Masonry the next year to organize an antimasonic order with Jacobite connections, the Gormogons.

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The Hell-Fire Club remained in abeyance until 1746, when Sir Francis Dashwood and a group of his friends revived it. Dashwood may have learned about the earlier club from Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Wharton’s ex-mistress, who had participated in its rites and became a friend of Dashwood’s in 1739. Early meetings of the Club took place at the George and Vulture, a London pub, but operations soon moved to Medmenham Abbey, and the club continued to meet there for the remainder of its existence. The Abbey, rebuilt by Dashwood and stocked with a celebrated collection of pornography, also included a “chapter room” for private ceremonies.

According to contemporary accounts, members attended in black monastic robes and took part in burlesque pseudo-Satanic rituals along with “nuns” hired for the evening. The rites involved the consumption of impressive amounts of alcohol and ended with an orgy. Such entertainments were popular enough among the eighteenth-century English upper class to attract some of the leading figures of the time; MP John Wilkes and the Earl of Bute were members, and Benjamin Franklin took part during his second stay in England.

Like the great majority of Satanist organizations, the Hell-Fire Club was mostly a way for people frustrated by the moral restraints of a nominally Christian society to act out fantasies of sexual wickedness in a “safe” setting. But it had echoes of a more serious purpose, like in all secret societies such scenes and rites are all about control and manipulation of their members. Afterwards politicians and people of great influence are blackmailed and extorted to follow up the sinister agenda’s hidden from the public.

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Death Is Not the End

By Harun Yahya

Death is the end of merely the life of this world—thus the end of the trial—and the beginning of the next life.

“Every self will taste death. We test you with both good and evil as a trial. And you will be returned to Us.” (Al-Anbiya’: 35)

Death, which is certain to happen to all of us, is a very important fact in one’s life. We can never know exactly what we will experience in an hour or even in the next moment. This being the case, it is obvious how wrong it would be to plan our lives based on events that may never happen. Death, on the other hand, is the only thing that is certain to happen. Only the recognition of this basic truth makes us understand that we must found our lives according to it. Death is also a part of the trial of man. God informs us in the Qur’an that He created death and life to try man:

“He Who created death and life to test which of you is best in action. He is the Almighty, the Ever-Forgiving.” (Al-Mulk: 2)

Death is the end of merely the life of this world—thus the end of the trial—and the beginning of the next life. For this reason, believers have no fear of death. The thought of death does not distress them, because, every moment of their lives is spent in the pursuit of good deeds as preparation for the hereafter. For disbelievers, however, fear causes them great distress, because they consider it a complete annihilation. Thus, they avoid all thought of death. Nevertheless, it is futile. No soul can escape death when the predetermined time for it has come. This, in a verse, is stressed as follows:

“Wherever you are, death will catch up with you, even if you are in impregnable fortresses…” (Al-Nisa’: 78)

To avoid the thought of death is to avoid the truth. As death will eventually catch up with man sooner or later, it is wise to conduct oneself with a mind busy with the thought of death. This is the rational disposition by which believers abide. Until death comes upon them, they engage in good deeds, as God commands us in the Qur’an:

“And worship your Lord until what is Certain comes to you.” (Al-Hijr: 99)

Thinking about death strengthens one’s spirit and will. It prevents one’s lower soul from leading him astray, by being lured through the false temptations of this world. It instills him with the resolve and determination to avoid all forms of behavior unpleasing to God. It is for this reason that a believer must often think about death, never forgetting that all people, including himself, will someday die.

From the Qur’an, we learn what really happens to someone who dies, and what he or she actually experiences and feels. When we see someone dying, we only observe his “biological death.” The truth is, however, the dying person, though in a totally different dimension, confronts the angels of death. If he is a disbeliever, his death causes him great pain. The angels of death, after extracting his soul, beat and torment him. A disbeliever’s trauma is described as follows:

“…If you could only see the wrongdoers in the throes of death when the angels are stretching out their hands, saying, “Disgorge your own selves! Today you will be repaid with the punishment of humiliation for saying something other than the truth about God, and being arrogant about His Signs.” (Al-An`am: 93)

“How will it be when the angels take them in death, beating their faces and their backs? That is because they followed what angers God and hated what is pleasing to Him. So He made their actions come to nothing.” (Muhammad: 27-28)

On the contrary, death promises great joy and bliss for the believers. Contrary to disbelievers, whose souls are torn from them violently, the souls of believers are drawn from them gently. (Al-Nazi’at: 2) This experience is similar to the case of the soul in sleep, which leaves the body and moves into a different dimension (Al-Zumar: 42).

“Gardens of Eden which they enter, with rivers flowing under them, where they have whatever they desire. That is how God repays those who have fear for Him: those the angels take in a virtuous state. They say, ‘Peace be upon you! Enter Paradise for what you did.’” (Al-Nahl: 31-32)

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