سُوْرَةُ الَّيْلِ

Surah Al-Lail (92) — Ayah 16

The Night · Meccan · Juz 30 · Page 596

ٱلَّذِى كَذَّبَ وَتَوَلَّىٰ ﴿16﴾
Who denies and turns away.
ٱلَّذِى alladhī The one who
كَذَّبَ kadhaba denied
وَتَوَلَّىٰ watawallā and turned away

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The tafsir of this verse may be read with the following verses.

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The exegesis of this verse has been done along with the previous verse.

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16. Who denied and turned away [7].

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The Entry of Sinful Muslims into Hell and the Refutation of the Murji'ah Sect:

The Murji'ah sect has argued from this verse that only disbelievers will be admitted into Hell, and sinful believers will not enter it. Their view is incorrect because they have ignored numerous other verses of the Quran as well as hadiths in which it is explicitly mentioned that sinful believers will also be admitted into Hell, and when the punishment for their sins is completed, they will be taken out of Hell. It is mentioned in the most authentic and widely transmitted hadiths about intercession that a group of sinful Muslims will enter Hell, then, through the intercession of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, they will be taken out of Hell. Therefore, the meaning of this verse is only that in that particular place in Hell which Allah has prepared specifically for the disbelievers and polytheists, only that wretched one will be admitted who rejected the truth and persistently turned away from it.