50, the Qur'an says: "On the Day (when) We say unto Hell: 'Are you filled up?

50, the Qur'an says: "On the Day (when) We say unto Hell: 'Are you filled up?' And it says: 'Are there any more?" Thus, Hell is a very vast place but they are so confined in it that, in some narration we read that their entrance into the Hell is like entering a nail into a wall.[^1] Meanwhile, the Qur'anic word /oubur/ originally means 'decay and destruction'.

When a man fears from something terrible or horrific, he cries: /wa oabura/ which means: 'woe to me.' [^1] Majma'-ul-Bayan, following the verse Commentary : Verse 14 لاَ تَدْعُوا الْيَوْمَ ثُبُوراً وَاحِداً وَادْعُوا ثُبُوراً كَثِير " (It will be said to them:) 'Call not this day for one destruction, but call for many destructions!" Commentary: This verse implies that they must not say /wa oAbira/ for one time, but they must say it many times.

The verse says: "(It will be said to them:) 'Call not this day for one destruction, but call for many destructions!" Anyway, their cry and moaning does not have any result and there will be no death or destruction, but they must remain alive and experience painful chastisements. This verse is in fact like the 16th verse of Sura At-Tur, No. 52, which says: "Endure the heat thereof, and whether you are patient of it or impatient of it is all one for you.

You are only being paid for what you used to do." That who tells such words to pagans, the context shows that angels of chastisement do this, because they deal with pagans. But why they are told that they must not say /wa oabura/ for one time, but they must say it many times, perhaps it is because their painful chastisement is not temporal that it ends with saying this phrase one time, but they must always repeat it during this period.

Moreover the divine punishment that is for these criminals is so miscellaneous that they face their death by experiencing each of these punishments and they cry /wa oabura/ each time. It seems that they die and become alive successively. The Prophet(p.b.u.h.) in a tradition says:"The people of the Hell are under pressure like nail in wall."[^1] Its reason is that: ignoring Allah leads to desperate straits in this world and the other world. Concerning what they have in this world, "...