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This idea of being brought together prone of their faces, blind, dumb, and deaf is also expressed in Surah Taha (20:124 - 125), Surah Al-Isra' (17:72) and in Surah Al-Qamar (54:48).

For those who are to be summoned blind are to ask their Lord as to why they are blind. Their argument would be that they were not blind when they were living on Earth. The answer would be: in as much as they were blind mentally from seeing the truth from their Lord and have rejected it, they are to be blind now physically and physiologically. The Qur'an is explicit about this type of dialogue between the blind people and Allah. In Surah Taha, Allah says the following:

But whosoever turns away from My message, verily for him is a life narrowed down, and We shall raise him up blind on the Day of Judgment

He will say: 'O my Lord! Why have you raised me up blind, while I had sight (before)?'

(God) will say: 'Thus did you, when our signs came unto you, disregard them: so will you, this day, be disregarded.' (Surah 20:Verse 124 - 126)

3. People in Hell will be surrounded with yokes around their necks, chained down with long leashes and are dragged down on their faces. In Surah Ghafir (The Believer) Allah says:

When the yokes (shall be) round their necks, and the chains; they shall be dragged along-in the boiling fetid fluid; then in the Fire shall they be burned. (Surah 40:Verse 71 - 72)

One may read more about this situation in Surah Al-Insan (The Man) (76:4) and in Surah Al-Haqqah (Sure Reality) (69:32).

4. People in Hell are to be beaten with maces of iron on their heads to feel the pain and humiliation. In Surah Al-Hajj (The Pilgrimage), Allah says the following:

In addition there will be maces of iron (to punish) them. (Surah 22:Verse 21)

5. People in Hell are to have special clothing: Those who deny the existence of Allah are to have clothing of fire. In one place in Surah Al-Hajj (Pilgrimage) the Qur'an states:

But those who deny (their Lord), -for them will be cut out a garment of fire. (Surah 22:Verse 19)

In another place in Surah Ibrahim, the Qur'an states that their clothings are from tar.

...Their garments of liquid pitch... (Surah 14:Verse 50)

6. People of hell are to drink boiling water which is to let them feel painful in their stomach and intestines. The pain is heavy to the extent that their intestines are cut into pieces.

(a) The Qur'an states in Surah Muhammad the following: (Can those in such Bliss) be compared to such as shall dwell forever in the Fire, and be given, to drink, boiling water, so that it cuts up their bowels (to pieces)? (Surah 47:Verse 15)

(b) In Surah Al-An'am (Cattle) Allah says: They will have for drink (only) boiling water, and for punishment, one most grievous: for they persisted in rejecting God. (Surah 6:Verse 70)

(c) In Surah Ibrahim Allah says: In front of such one is Hell, and he is given for drink, boiling fetid water. (Surah 14:Verse 16)

(d) In Surah Younus (Jonah), Allah says: But those who reject Him will have draughts of boiling fluids, and a penalty grievous, because they did reject Him. (Surah 10:Verse 4)

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