Similarly, among those who will enter Hell is the absolute disbeliever. For through his disbelief and denial he both transgresses the rights of the Divine Names, and through denying the testimony of beings to those Names, he transgresses their rights, and by denying the elevated duties of glorification of creatures before the Divine Names he violates their rights, and through denying their being mirrors to and responding with worship to the manifestation of Divine dominicality, which is the purpose of the universe's creation and a reason for its existence and continuance, he transgresses their rights in a way. His disbelief is therefore a crime and wrong of such vast proportions it may not be forgiven, and deserves the threat of the verse,
God forgives not [the sin ofl joining other gods with Him¹⁷ Not to cast him into Hell would comprise innumerable instances of merci-lessness to innumerable claimants whose rights had been transgressed, in place of a single misplaced act of mercy. Just as those claimants demand the existence of Hell, so do Divine dignity and majesty, and tremendous-ness and perfection most certainly demand it.
Yes, if a worthless rebel who assaults the people says to the proud ruler of the place: "You can't put me in prison!", affronting his dignity, if there is not a prison in the town, the ruler will have one made just to throw the ill-mannered wretch into it. Injust the same way, through his disbelief the absolute disbeliever affronts seriously the dignity of Divine glory, and through his denial offends the splendour of His power, and through his aggression disturbs the perfection of His dominicality. Even if there were not many things necessitating the functions of Hell and many reasons for and instances of wisdom in its existence, it is the mark of that dignity and glory to create a Hell for disbelievers such as that, and to cast them into it.
Moreover, even the nature of disbelief makes known Hell. Yes, just as if the true nature of belief was lo be embodied, it could with its pleasures take on the form of a private paradise, and in this respect gives secret news of Paradise; so, as is proved with evidences in the Risale-i Nur and is also alluded to in the previous Topics, disbelief, and especially absolute disbelief, and dissembling, and apostasy, are the cause of such dark and awful pains and spiritual torment that if they were to be embodied, they would become a private Hell for the apostate, and in this way tell of the greater Hell in concealed manner. The tiny truths in the seed-bed of this world produce shoots in the hereafter. Thus, this poisonous seed indicates that particular tree of Zaqqum, saying: "I am its origin. For the unfortunate who bears me in his heart, my fruit is a private sample of that Zaqqum-tree."
Since disbelief is aggression against innumerable rights, it is certainly an infinite crime and deserves infinite punishment. Human justice considers a sentence of fifteen years imprisonment (nearly eight million minutes) to be justice for a one minute's murder, and conformable with general rights and interests. Therefore, since one instance of disbelief is the equivalent of a thousand murders, to suffer torments for nearly eight thousand million minutes for one minute's absolute disbelief, is in conformity with that law of justice. A person who passes a year of his life in disbelief deserves punishment for close on two million million eight hundred eighty thousand million minutes, and manifests the meaning of the verse.
They will dwell therein for ever.¹⁸ However...
The All-Wise Qur'an's miraculous descriptions of Heaven and Hell, and the proofs of their existence in the Risale-i Nur, a Qur'anic commentary which proceeds from the Qur'an, leave no need for others. As is shown by numerous verses like, They reflect on the creation of the lieavens and earth, saying: "O our Sustainer! Indeed You have not created this in vain; glory be unto
You; and protect us from the torment of the Fire.'"¹⁹ * О our Sustainer! Avert from «ţ the torment of Hell; indeed its torment is a grievous affliction, * And evil it is as a resting-place and abode ,²⁰
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17.Qur'an.*48, 116.
18. Qur'an. 93:8,
19. Qur'an, 3:191.
20. Qur'an, 25:65-6.