Hasaba means "to calculate, to reckon.

Hasaba means "to calculate, to reckon." He ima­gines that he moves closer to khuld (eternity) by counting and watching over what he wrongly imagines will give him longev­ity and permanency. His is a perverted worship. The Eternal is another attribute of Allah: Al-Khalid. We all want to know the Eternal because only in that way will we be secure in the knowl­edge that only eternity exists.

It is he who has completely slipped off the path who believes that what he has accumulated gives him security. 4 Nay! He will certainly be hurled into the crushing Hell. Nabadha means "to hurl, throw away, to reject, cast out, abandon." By casting out what is useless or dangerous, we are protected from the evil in them.

Hutamah is another name for Hell, means "a crush­ing disaster," and comes from hatama, "to shatter, crush, destroy." Most certainly, a person who takes refuge in his health, in his wealth, or in anything of the visible world, does not trust that the hand of The Invisible is behind the visible. He will be cast out into that which causes nothing but destruction. 5 And what will make you comprehend what the crushing Hell is? And what do you know of it?

Another connotation of hatamah comes from the verb in its second form, where it means "to break," implying that the object involved in the breaking, or crushing, is solid to begin with. 6 The fire of Allah, ignited, The crushing disaster is the Fire of Allah that is forever lit. 7 Which rises up to the hearts. 8 Certainly it will be shut tightly around them. And that Fire of Allah is locked within the heart of man.

It is the fire which causes him to be at a loss, to try to take refuge in material security, wealth and power. We see this in the present state of our cul­ture, in that we have completely taken refuge in our imaginations and calculations. In this culture we imagine that what is of greatest impor­tance is what is tangible or visible, but the visible is not the sum of what there is in this world; it is only one aspect of it, one manifesta­tion of reality.

There are other forces or powers behind the scenes. 9 In outstretched columns. The Fire will tightly encircle the heart in extended columns, and form a burning wall created by the heart itself through its own ignor­ance. Some men of Allah talk about two types of fire: the fire that burns and inflicts pain, causing nothing but destruction, and the fire of knowledge.