أَفَمَنْ حَقَّ عَلَيْهِ كَلِمَةُ ٱلْعَذَابِ أَفَأَنتَ تُنقِذُ مَن فِى ٱلنَّارِ
Afaman haqqa 'alaihi kalimatul 'azaab; afa anta tunqizu man fin Naar
Then, is one who has deserved the decree of punishment [to be guided]? Then, can you save one who is in the Fire?
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39:19Ayah 175
16 ayahs in Az-Zumar are strongly about Paradise and Hell. This is one of them.
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Can he against whom the word of chastisement has been fulfilled …? namely the words I will surely fill Hell with jinn and mankind together Q. 11119; Will you deliver bring out one who is in the Fire? this is the response to the conditional clause in which the overt qualification man fī’l-nār ‘one who is in the Fire’ replaces the pronominalisation a-fa-man ‘he … whom’; the hamza in a-fa-anta ‘will you’ is for rejection in other words the sense is that you will not be able to guide him and therefore deliver him from the Fire.
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"Shall I not inform you of whom the Fire is unlawful and he is unlawful for the Fire? Every person who is near (to people), amicable, and easy (to deal with).'"
"The judges are three: Two judges that are in the Fire, and a judge that is in Paradise. A man who judges without the truth, and he knows that. This one is in the Fire. One who judges while not knowing, ruining the rights of the people. So he is in the Fire. A judge who judges with the truth, that is the one in Paradise."] (Daif)
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