81- TRULY, WHOEVER EARNS AN EVIL DEED AND IS SURROUNDED BY HIS SINS, THOSE ARE THE PEOPE OF THE FIRE, WHERE THEY SHALL ABIDE FOREVER.

82- YET THOSE WHO BELIEVE AND DO RIGHTEOUS DEEDS, THOSE ARE THE PEOPLE OF THE PARADISE, WHERE THEY SHALL ABIDE FOREVER.

Allah the Highest is continuing to answer the claims of the Jews that they will be in the Hell-Fire only for numbered days, 40 or 7 days. 

Earning evil deeds is an important concept and understanding in Islam.  A person can not sin accidentally, or by chance.  To commit a sin, a person has to have the intention to commit that sin, followed by the deed.  Both the intention and deed have to co-exist.  One of them is not enough.

Allah’s messenger, prayer and peace upon him, said: “Allah records the good deeds and the bad deeds and He clarifies them.  He who intends to do a good deed, but does not do it, Allah will record it as a full good deed.  If he intends to do it and he does it, Allah the Exalted and Majestic records it as ten good deeds to seven hundred folds, to many more folds.  If a person intends to do a bad deed and he does not do it, Allah records it as a full good deed, and if he intends to do it and does it, Allah records it as a single bad deed”.  (M: Eman; 203 & T: Tafseer Sorah 6; 10 & A: 1; 227,242)

Then Allah the Highest draws us a mental picture of those who sin repeatedly without repenting.  It is like being besieged by their sins or engulfed by them.  Indeed, sins are like enemies surrounding a person from every direction and besieging him/her.

Sins can be generally classified into two types: 

1-    General sins; great or small.  They may be forgiven, except those which involve other people rights and dues, those people have to forgive for Allah the Highest to forgive.  As when, not giving someone their money, or cheating them, or overpowering them to withhold what is due to them, monetary or morally.

2-    The Unforgivable sin; which is to disbelieve in Allah the Highest or to worship partners besides him.

This sin engulfs a person and leads to him/her being engulfed in the Fire.

Allah the Highest never mentions what awaits the sinful of punishment, without mentioning what awaits the believer who is a good doer, the reward of the Paradise.  It is Allah’s promise to them, and it is Eternal.

B: Bukhari   M: Muslim    Mal: Malek   A: Ahmed   D: Abu Dawood     

 Da: Daremy       Ma: Ibn Magah            N: Nesae          T: Termezi