An-Nazi'at 79:39

An-Nazi'at 79:39 - Linguistic Miracle

فَإِنَّ ٱلْجَحِيمَ هِىَ ٱلْمَأْوَىٰ

“Then indeed, Hellfire will be [his] refuge.”

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Then indeed, the burning blaze shall be the refuge of such


There is an extra pronoun here before the word refuge. Since Allah calls both paradise and Hell “refuge”, the extra pronoun denotes that Hereafter alone, is the place of refuge and stay. A refuge - be it the fire or the garden - that actually lasts unlike this world. It could also mean that the burning blaze alone, and nothing else, will be his place of refuge.34


34 al-Ālūsī, Rūḥ al-Maʿānī, vol. 28, p. 282.