[89:23] يَقُولُ يَا لَيْتَنِي قَدَّمْتُ لِحَيَاتِي {24} He...

[89:23] يَقُولُ يَا لَيْتَنِي قَدَّمْتُ لِحَيَاتِي {24} He would be saying, ‘Oh I wish I had sent ahead for my life (in Hereafter)!’ [89:24] (تحفة الإخوان): بحذف الاسناد، عن أبي سعيد الخدري، و سلمان الفارسي، قال: لما نزلت هذه الآية تغير وجه رسول الله (صلى الله عليه و آله)، و عرف ذلك من وجهه حتى اشتد على الصحابة و عظم عليهم ما رأوا من حاله، فانطلق بعضهم إلى أمير المؤمنين علي بن أبي طالب (عليه السلام)، فقالوا: يا علي، لقد حدث أمر رأيناه في وجه رسول الله (صلى الله عليه و آله)؟ (Tohfat Al-Ikhwaan) – With the chain deleted, from Abu Saeed Al-Khudry and Salman Al-Farsy -ra said: ‘When this Verse was Revealed, the face of Rasool-Allah -saww changed, and that was recognised from his -saww face to the extent that tensions heightened among the companions and it was a grievous matter to them, what they saw from his -saww state.

Some of them came to Amir-Al-Momineen Ali -asws Bin Abu Talib -asws and said, ‘O Ali -asws ! There has taken place a matter which we saw in the face of Rasool-Allah -saww ?’ قال: فأتى علي (عليه السلام) فاحتضنه من خلفه و قبل ما بين عاتقيه، ثم قال: يا نبي الله، بأبي [أنت‏] و أمي، ما الذي حدث عندك اليوم؟ So, Ali -asws came up from behind him -saww and kissed him -saww between his -saww shoulders, then said: ‘O Prophet -saww of Allah -azwj !

May my -asws father -asws and mother -asws be sacrificed for you -saww , what is it which happened to you -saww today?’ قال: «جاء جبرئيل، فأقرأني وَ جِي‏ءَ يَوْمَئِذٍ بِجَهَنَّمَ. فقلت: و كيف يجاء بها؟ He -saww said: ‘Jibraeel -as came, so he -as read out to me -saww : And on that Day they would come with Hell [89:23] .

So I -saww said: ‘And how would they come with it?’ قال: يؤمر بجهنم فتقاد بسبعين ألف زمام، لكل زمام سبعون ألف ملك، في يد كل ملك مقرعة من حديد، فيقودونها بأزمتها و سلاسلها، و لها قوائم غلاظ شداد، كل قائمة مسيرة ألف سنة من سنين الدنيا He -as said: ‘He -azwj will Command Hell, and it would be pulled by seventy thousand reins. For each of those reins would be seventy thousand Angels. In the hand of each of the Angels would be a lash of iron which they would be driving its reins and its chains.

And (allocated) for it would be a group (of Angels) for extreme cruelty, each one of whom would be standing apart at a travel (distance) of a thousand years from the years of the world.

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