لَوْ يَعْلَمُ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ حِينَ لَا يَكُفُّونَ عَن وُجُوهِهِمُ ٱلنَّارَ وَلَا عَن ظُهُورِهِمْ وَلَا هُمْ يُنصَرُونَ
Law ya'lamul lazeena kafaroo heena laa yakuffoona 'anw wujoohihimun Naara wa laa 'an zuhoorihim wa laa hum yunsaroon
If those who disbelieved but knew the time when they will not avert the Fire from their faces or from their backs and they will not be aided...
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21:39Ayah 1112
9 ayahs in Al-Anbiyaa are strongly about Paradise and Hell. This is one of them.
← Previous on Paradise & Hell21:29And whoever of them should say, "Indeed, I am a god besides Him"- that one We would recompense with Hell. Thus do We recompense the wrongdoers.Next on Paradise & Hell →21:98Indeed, you [disbelievers] and what you worship other than Allah are the firewood of Hell. You will be coming to [enter] it.
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God exalted be He says If those who disbelieved only knew of the time when they shall not be able to ward off repel the Fire from their faces nor from their backs nor shall they be helped nor shall they be protected from it at the Resurrection the response to the conditional particle law ‘if only’ is something along the lines of ‘they would not have said that’.
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