Single Idea 6830

[catalogued under 29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 2. Immortality / e. Hell]

Full Idea

Those that deny Our revelations We will burn in Hell-fire. No sooner will their skins be consumed that We shall give them other skins, so that they may truly taste Our scourge. Allah is mighty and wise.

Gist of Idea

Unbelievers will have their skin repeatedly burned off in hell

Source

Mohammed (The Koran [c.622], Ch.4)

Book Reference

Mohammed: 'The Koran', ed/tr. Dawood,N.J. [Penguin 1968], p.363


A Reaction

Of all the accounts of hell in the Koran, this strikes me as the most alarming. I cannot think of a worse infliction, because here every nerve which can experience pain will suffer it (though the drinking of boiling water, Idea 6816, will make it worse).

Related Idea

Idea 6816 The unbelievers shall drink boiling water [Mohammed]