Surah 18:53
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وَيَوۡمَ يَقُولُ نَادُواْ شُرَكَآءِيَ ٱلَّذِينَ زَعَمۡتُمۡ فَدَعَوۡهُمۡ فَلَمۡ يَسۡتَجِيبُواْ لَهُمۡ وَجَعَلۡنَا بَيۡنَهُم مَّوۡبِقٗا
On the Day when He will say, ‘Call those who you claimed were My associates,’ they will call them, but they will not respond to them – (for) We have set between them a place of destruction.
وَرَءَا ٱلۡمُجۡرِمُونَ ٱلنَّارَ فَظَنُّوٓاْ أَنَّهُم مُّوَاقِعُوهَا وَلَمۡ يَجِدُواْ عَنۡهَا مَصۡرِفٗا
The sinners will see the Fire and think that they are about to fall into it, but they will find no escape from it.
Allah tells us how He will address the idolaters on the Day of Resurrection before all of creation, rebuking and scolding them,
iCall those (so-called) partners of Mine whom you claimed.)
meaning, in the world. Call them today to save you from the situation you are in! Allah says:
iThen they will cry unto them, but they will not answer them.) As Allah says:
And the Ayah :
Until the end of the two Ay at,
iand We shall put Matobiq between them.}
Ibn ‘Abbas, Qatadah and others said: “Destruction.” 1 ' 1 The meaning is that Allah is stating that these idolaters will have no way of reaching the gods they claimed in this world. He will separate them in the Hereafter and neither party will have any means of reaching the other. There will be devastation, great horrors and other terrible things in between them. ‘Abdullah bin ‘Amr understood the pronoun in the phrase “between them" to refer to the believers and the disbelievers, 121 meaning that the people of guidance and the people of misguidance will be separated. This then is like the Ayab
4And on the Day when the Hour will be established - that Day shall (all men) be separated .} (30:14)
iOn that Day men shall be divided .} [30:43],
4(lt will be said), "And O you the criminals! Get you apart this Day (from the believers).} [36:59]
[4And on the Day when We shall gather them all together, then We shall say to those who joined partners, "Stop in your place! You and your partners." Tl\en We shall separate between them... 4 until,
4And what they invented will vanish from them.} 10:28-30]
4And the criminals shall see the Fire and apprehend that they are to fall therein. And they will find no way of escape from it.}
meaning when they see Hell with their own eyes, since it is being dragged forth by seventy thousand reins, each pulled by seventy thousand angels. When, j
4 the criminals shall see the Fire},
they will realize that they cannot escape being thrown into lit, and that will only intesify their anxiety and distress, because the anticipation and fear of punishment is in itself a real punishment.
4 And they will find no way of escape from it.}
means, they will have no way of fleeing, it will be inevitable.