Islam Guidance

Verse50-51

(50) وَ نادى‏ أَصْحابُ النَّارِ أَصْحابَ الْجَنَّةِ أَنْ أَفِيضُوا عَلَيْنا مِنَ الْماءِ أَوْ مِمَّا رَزَقَكُمُ اللَّهُ

قالُوا إِنَّ اللَّهَ حَرَّمَهُما عَلَى الْكافِرِينَ

(51) الَّذِينَ اتَّخَذُوا دِينَهُمْ لَهْواً وَ لَعِباً وَ غَرَّتْهُمُ الْحَياةُ الدُّنْيا فَالْيَوْمَ نَنْساهُمْ كَما نَسُوا لِقاءَ

يَوْمِهِمْ هذا وَ ما كانُوا بِ‏آياتِنا يَجْحَدُونَ

50. " And the inhabitants of the (Hell) Fire shall call to the inhabitants of Paradise saying: ' Cast on us of water or (and) of what Allah has provided you with.' They shall say : ' Verily Allah has forbidden them both to the disbelievers'."
51. " (Those) who have taken their religion for pastime and a play and the life of the world has deluded them; so today We forsake them as they forgot the encounter of this their day, and that they denied Our Signs."

Commentary :
This verse of the Qur'an says that the inhabitants of the (Hell) Fire shall call to the inhabitants of Heaven, saying :
"...' Cast on us of water or (and) of what Allah has provided you with.' ..."
This statement is an evidence for the sense that Heaven is located above Hell, (because the meaning of the Arabic word /'ifadah/ is pouring water from above). Then the phrase means that they ask the dwellers of Heaven to pour over them from the water or the kinds of food and fruit Allah has provided them with.
"... They shall say : Verily Allah has forbidden them both to the disbelievers'."
This is the answer of the inhabitants of Heaven. They say that Allah has forbidden the drinks and foods of Heaven to the infidels. These infidels are those who toyed with the religion of Allah, which He had enjoined to follow, and made unlawful or made lawful whatever they desired.
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" (Those) who have taken their religion for pastime and a play and the life of the world has deluded them; so today We forsake them ..."
Such people will be dealt with like the person who is forgotten while he is in fire. Neither their request is accepted nor their shedding tear causes any mercy to be shown. The same as they forgot this day and did not take it important.
"... as they forgot the encounter of this their day, and that they denied Our Signs."
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