HELL’S EXTREME DARKNESS
Hell’s Extreme Darkness
Abu Hurayrah (radijAllahu ‘anhu) narrated that the Prophet (pbuh) said: “Hell is heated up for a thousand years until it turns white. Then it is heated a further thousand years until it turns red and again a thousand years until it turns black. This blackness is like a dark night. “ (Tirmidhi, #2594 and Ibn Majah, #4320)
In another hadith reported by Al-Bayhaqi, the Prophet (pbuh) compared the blackness of Hell to tar, and the fumes of Hell being seventy times more intense than the worldly fumes.
Ibn Abi Dunya and Tabarani report a narration explaining that the kindling and embers in Hell do not give off light. Ubayy Ibn Ka’b (radiyAllahu ‘anhu) said: ‘Allah gives an example of the disbelievers in the Qur’an with these verses:
“Or [they are] like darknesses within an unfathomable sea which is covered by waves, upon which are waves, over which are clouds—darknesses, some of them upon others. When one puts out his hand [therein], he can hardly see it. And he to whom Allah has not granted light—for him there is no light. “ (Al-Nur(24): 40)
The disbeliever is faced with five levels of darkness (zulumat). His speech and deeds are darkness. He shall enter darkness and leave (to enter) another darkness, and his journey is towards the darkness of Hell.
Rabf Ibn Anas said:‘Verily Allah has made this worldly fire a source of light and radiance. It is also a source of energy for the people of the world. But the great Fire (of Hell) is dark like tar. May Allah protect us from it.’
Al-Dahhak said: ‘Hell is black, its water is black, its trees are black and its dwellers are black.’
A hadith that reveals that the sinners among the believers will be burnt in Hell until they turn into black coal substantiates the fact that the Hell-dwellers are black.
By Ibn Rajab Al-Hanbali
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