Tafseer of Hud · Hud · 11:16
Those are the ones for whom there is not in the Hereafter but the Fire. And lost is what they did therein, and worthless is what they used to do.
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The exposition of the interpretation of the words of the Exalted: أُولَئِكَ الَّذِينَ لَيْسَ لَهُمْ فِي الْآخِرَةِ إِلَّا النَّارُ وَحَبِطَ مَا صَنَعُوا فِيهَا وَبَاطِلٌ مَا كَانُوا يَعْمَلُونَ (Those are the ones for whom there is nothing in the Hereafter but the Fire, and what they did therein has come to nothing, and vain is what they used to do.) (16)
Abū Jaʿfar said: The Exalted — praise be to Him — says: These people, of whom I have mentioned that We pay them the rewards of their deeds in the worldly life in full, for them in the Hereafter there is nothing but the Fire — they will burn therein. And وَحَبِطَ مَا صَنَعُوا فِيهَا — that is to say: what they did in the worldly life has come to nothing — and وَبَاطِلٌ مَا كَانُوا يَعْمَلُونَ — because they worked for other than Allah; Allah has declared that vain and has nullified the reward of the one who did it.
