The Nature of Fire of Hell and the Nature of the Garden of Paradise and what Allah has prepared therein for its inhabitants

The Prophet (may Allah’s peace and blessings be upon him) continued:

Then Hell will send forth a shower of sparks, as numerous as the stars.  Each spark will be like an enormous cloud arising in the West, and the shower of sparks will fall upon the heads of the assembled creatures.

Description of the Bridge (Pul-Siraat)

He went on to say (may Allah’s peace and blessings be upon him):

Then the Bridge will be erected over Hell.  Seven hundred arches will be made ready to support it, and the distance between each pair of arches will be that of a journey taking seventy years.  The dimensions of the Bridge will be as follows: from the first platform down to the second platform, the distance of a journey taking five hundred years; from the second down to the third, the distance of a journey taking five hundred years; from the third down to the fourth, the same distance again; from the fourth down to the fifth, the same distance again; the fifth down to the sixth, the same distance again; and from the sixth down to the seventh, likewise.  This seventh platform will be widest of them all, the hottest of them all, and most deeply concave of them all, the most varied of them all [in its range of torments], and the most fiery of them all—by a factor of seventy.

As for the lowest platform, its flame will rise up past the bridge on the right side and the left, as they soar into the sky to a distance of three miles.  Each platform will be hotter, more thickly littered with live coals, and beset with more varied kinds of torments then the one above it—by a factor of seventy.

Upon each platform there will be an ocean, rivers, mountains and trees.  The height of each of those mountains, as it towers up into the sky, will be equal to a distance of a journey taking seventy thousand years.  There will be seventy such mountains on each platform, and on each mountain there will be seventy thousand separate hills.  On each one of those separate hills, there will be seventy thousand thorny trees.  Each of those trees will have seventy branches, and there will be seventy serpents and seventy scorpions lurking on each side of its branches.  Each of those serpents will be three miles in length, and as for the scorpions, they resemble huge Bactrian camels.  Seventy thousand pieces of fruit will be dangling from each of those trees, and each piece of fruit will have the shape of a devil’s head.  Inside almost every one of those pieces of fruit there will be seventy worms, and each of those worms will be exceedingly long.  Some pieces of fruit will not contain worms, but they will have thorns inside them instead.

Further Description of Hell

The Prophet (may Allah’s peace and blessings be upon him) also used to say:

Hell has seven entrances, and each of those entrances has seventy valleys.  The depth of each of those valleys is a distance of a journey taking seventy years.  Each of those valleys has seventy thousand branches, and in each of its branches there are seventy thousand caves.  In each of those caves, there are seventy thousand crevices, and each of its crevices extends to the distance of a journey taking seventy years.  Seventy thousand snakes are lurking inside each of those crevices, and there are seventy thousand scorpions inside the jaws of each of those snakes.  Each of those scorpions have seventy thousand spinal columns, and each of its spinal columns contains a flask of poison.  Neither the unbeliever nor the hypocrite will reach his final destination without experiencing all this to the full.

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