Verse/Note-85:5-as:
85:5 of fire fiercely burning [for all who have attained to faith]! Note:(SEE GOOGLE TRANSLATE AT BOTTOM) Lit., "those responsible (ashab) for the pit of fire abounding in fuel". In order to explain this parabolic passage, the commentators interpret it - quite unnecessarily - in the past tense, and advance the most contradictory legends meant to "identify" those evildoers in historical terms.✔️ The result is a medley of stories ranging from Abraham's experiences with his idolatrous contemporaries (cf. 21:68) to the Biblical legend of Nebuchadnezzar's attempt to burn three pious Israelites in a fiery furnace (The Book of Daniel iii, 19 ff.), or the persecution, in the sixth century, of the Christians of Najran by the King of Yemen, Dhu Nawas (who was a Jew by religion), or the entirely apocryphal story of a Zoroastrian king who burnt to death those of his subjects who refused to accept his dictum that a marriage of brother and sister was "permitted by G...