Tafseer of The Repentance · At-Tawba · 9:68
Allah has promised the hypocrite men and hypocrite women and the disbelievers the fire of Hell, wherein they will abide eternally. It is sufficient for them. And Allah has cursed them, and for them is an enduring punishment.
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The statement concerning the explanation of His saying: "Allah has promised the hypocrites, men and women (al-munāfiqīn wa-l-munāfiqāt), and the unbelievers (al-kuffār) the fire of Hell (jahannam), abiding therein forever; that is sufficient for them, and Allah has cursed them, and for them there is a lasting punishment (ʿadhāb)" (9:68).
Abū Jaʿfar said: The Exalted, whose mention is exalted, says: "Allah has promised the hypocrites, men and women, and the unbelievers" in Allah = "the fire of Hell" [He has promised], that He will cause them all together to burn therein = "abiding therein forever". He says: dwelling therein for all eternity; they neither live therein nor die therein = "that is sufficient for them". He says: that [fire] is enough for them as punishment and recompense for their unbelief in Allah = "and Allah has cursed them". He says: and Allah has removed them and driven them far away from His mercy = "and for them there is a lasting punishment". He says: and for both groups together — that is to say: of the people of hypocrisy (nifāq) and unbelief (kufr) — there is with Allah = "a lasting punishment", continuous, which does not cease and does not perish.
[The footnotes refer, for the explanation of "al-khulūd" (abiding eternally), "ḥasb" (sufficiency) and "muqīm" (lasting/abiding), to the earlier linguistic indexes and passages in what precedes.]
