A069
Surah: 021 - Ayah: 069
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21:69
According to the wise Quraan, God only has to say “Be!” to something and it becomes. For example, He said “Be cool!” (21:69) to Nimrod’s pyre and it became cool. Similarly, when He said “Be apes!” (2:65) to some of the disobedient children of Israel, they became apes. All this is true, more in a spiritual sense and so, if God wants to make someone’s soul into stone or iron then this is not impossible. There is a clear allusion to this in verse (17:50): “Say (O Prophet): Be stones or iron.” Thus it is not the body but the soul that becomes deformed. That is, the soul turns into iron, stone, etc.
Q530 When Allah enfolds the heaven and the earth, every kind of evil comes to an end. Would you kindly explain what happens to hell and satan in this case?
A530
- Answers to every possible question are given in the unique heavenly Book of Allah, the Qur’an. Therefore the answer to this question in it is that when the time comes, Allah by His mercy transforms hell fire into a garden just as He transformed the pyre of Nimrod into a garden for Ibrahim (a.s) (21:69).
- Satan is transformed into an angel, because his work was to last only until the resurrection (7:14) and the hell fire where he was undergoing suffering is transformed into a garden. Since there is only good in Allah’s hand, evil will also transform into good.
This verse has been referred 8 times.