لَّا ظَلِيلٍۢ وَلَا يُغْنِى مِنَ ٱللَّهَبِ
Laa zaleelinw wa laa yughnee minal lahab
[But having] no cool shade and availing not against the flame."
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Paradise & Hell
77:31Ayah 150
13 ayahs in Al-Mursalaat are strongly about Paradise and Hell. This is one of them.
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which is neither shady neither protective unable to shade them from the heat of that Day nor of any avail against nor wards off from them anything of the flame the Fire.
Related Hadiths
"forbade sitting between the shade and sun."
"We complained to the Messenger of Allah about the heat of the sunbaked ground, but he did not respond to our complaint."
"We complained to the Messenger of Allah about the heat of the sunbaked ground, but he did not respond to our complaint." (Sahih)Another chain with similar wording.
"I have not seen the likes of the Fire in which the one who runs from it sleeps, nor the likes of Paradise in which the one who seeks it sleeps."
"I saw dreams (which perturbed me) but I did not cover myself with a mantle."
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