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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.



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