The Criterion
IN THE NAME OF GOD, THE MOST GRACIOUS, THE DISPENSER OF GRACE[25:13]
and when they are flung, linked [all] together, into a tight space within, they will pray for extinction there and then!

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* v.13 : For a tentative explanation of the allegory of the sinners’ being “linked together” in hell, see my note 64 on 14:49. As regards the “tight space” into which they will be flung, Zamakhsharī remarks: “Distress is accompanied by [a feeling of] constriction, just as happiness is accompanied by [a feeling of] spaciousness; and because of this, God has described paradise as being ‘as vast as the heavens and the earth’ [3:133].”