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His
Mother is Hell..
[See
al Qari'ah 101:9]
Arab
idiom: If someone is having a really really hard time, the arabs
would say to such a person: huwat ummuhu - his
mother fell off a cliff and dived
into a deep cannion (and died). That's how depressed this
person looks.
Allah twisted the sequence order of this
Arab idiom and made a new and more deeper meaning by
saying;
فَأُمُّهُ
هَاوِيَةٌ
Ummuhu
hawiyah; His mother is the deep cannion in
hell.
فَأُمُّهُ
هَاوِيَةٌ
Ummuhu
[his Mother]
= Mother = Hell is his Mother (ummuhu
hawiyah).
A
child runs towards his mother.
Who
wants to run towards the hellfire? Nobody. But hell
is now there mother - who there body will fall to at speed.
A
mother wraps herself around her child,
to protect it, and she doesn't let it go.
And when the mother is carrying the baby in
pregnancy, the baby is protected inside of her and it cannot come out
of her.
The person is trapped
in this mother of a hell, who holds him tightly, who does not let him
escape her grip.