إِنَّهَا شَجَرَةٌۭ تَخْرُجُ فِىٓ أَصْلِ ٱلْجَحِيمِ
Innahaa shajaratun takhruju feee aslil Jaheem
Indeed, it is a tree issuing from the bottom of the Hellfire,
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Paradise & Hell
37:64Ayah 1182
24 ayahs in As-Saaffaat are strongly about Paradise and Hell. This is one of them.
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Indeed it is a tree that comes forth from the very source of Hell in other words from the depths of Hell with its branches extending up through all its different levels.
Related Hadiths
"While he was on the pulpit – the pulpit of Al-Basrah – `Utbah bin Ghazwain narrated that the Messenger of Allah (s.a.w) said: “Indeed a giant rock can be thrown from the brink of Hell and it will continue to fall into it for seventy years without reaching the bottom of it.”.He said: “`Umar used to say:'Increase in your remembrance of the Fire, for its heat is extreme, its bottom is distant, and its whips are of Iron.'” (Sahih)
"When the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) was taken on the Night Journey, he came to Sidrah Al-Muntaha, which is in the sixth heaven. That is where everything that comes up from below ends, and where everything that comes down from above, until it is taken from it. Allah says: When what covered the lote-tree did cover it!
An-Najm 53:16.
"The sins of the worst magnitude that drag one into the Fire." (An-Nihayah)
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