Tafseer of The Women · An-Nisaa · 4:121
The refuge of those will be Hell, and they will not find from it an escape.
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The explanation of His word: "For them hell (jahannam) is an abode, and they will find no escape from it" (4:121)
Abū Jaʿfar said: The Exalted means by His word "for them" — that is: those who have taken the devil as a protector instead of Allah — "for them hell (jahannam) is an abode," that is: their destination, the place to which they go, is hell; "and they will find no escape from it," that is: they will, when Allah drives them there on the Day of Resurrection, find no way out away from the hell toward which they might turn aside.
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One says concerning this: "So-and-so turned away (ḥāṣa) from this matter, he turns away (yaḥīṣu), turning away (ḥayṣan and ḥuyūṣan)," when he swerves away from it.
To this belongs the report of Ibn ʿUmar, that he said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ sent out a raiding party in which I was, and we met the polytheists (mushrikīn), and we swerved away with a swerving (fa-ḥiṣnā ḥayṣatan). And some of them said: "They swerved away with a swerving (fa-jāḍū jayḍatan)." And "al-ḥayṣ" and "al-jayḍ" are close to each other in meaning.
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