Today's verse

بِسْمِ اللّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيْم

Surah 101.

Al-Qari'a,

The Striking Hour

ﺳﻮﺭﺓ َ ﺍﻟْﻘَﺎﺭِﻋَﺔُ

Verse  11

Arabic:

ﻧَﺎﺭٌﺣَﺎﻣِﻴَﺔٌ

Transliteration:

Naarun aamiyah.

(pronounce the 'aa' beginning 'aamiyah' as though you want to breath out air)

Meaning:

11.(It is) a fiercely blazing Fire!

Tafsir

Then Allah says that it is a a Fire of extremely high heat with raging flames. The Prophet said, "Your fire (the fire we use in the world) is the seventieth (70th) part of that Fire." The Companions said, "Even it is enough to destroy one." The Prophet (SAW) said, "Yes, but that has sixty-nine more equal parts of heat." (Bukhari). Ahmad bin Hanbal reported the Prophet as saying: "This fire despite its being a seventieth part of Hell Fire has been twice extinguished in the ocean. Had it not been so, you could not have benefitted from it." Another hadith said: "This fire is the hundredth part of the Hell Fire." Another hadith said, "That fire is seventy times darker than even the smoke of this fire of yours." (Tabarani).

Tirmidhi and Ibn Majah reported the Prophet as saying, "The fire of hell was kept burning for one thousand years until it became red, then it was kept burning for one thousand years until it turned white. Then it kept burning for one thousand years until it turned black and extremely dark."

Ahmad bin Hanbal reported the Prophet as saying: "Among the inmates of hell, the one lightest punishment will be the one who will be made to put on a pair of sandals made of fire and with the heat of them his brain will be boiled.

Bukhari & Muslim reported that the Prophet said: "Hell complained to Allah, 'My one part is eating the other.' Then the All-Mighty permitted it to breath twice, once in summer and once in winter. The extreme cold weather which you experience is it's cold breath and the extreme heat in summer is from him.

Another hadith said, "At the time of intense heat, the Prophet instructed us to offer prayer, as the extreme heat is because of the brave of Hell.