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qāla dkhulū fī ʾumamin qad khalat min qablikum mina l-jinni wa-l-ʾinsi fī n-nāri kullamā dakhalat ʾummatun laʿanat ʾukhtahā ḥattā ʾidhā ddārakū fīhā jamīʿan qālat ʾukhrāhum li-ʾūlāhum rabbanā hāʾulāʾi ʾaḍallūnā fa-ʾātihim ʿadhāban ḍiʿfan mina n-nāri qāla li-kullin ḍiʿfun wa-lākin lā taʿlamūna
He will say, ‘Enter the Fire, along with the nations of jinn and humans who passed before you!’ Every time that a nation enters [hell], it will curse its sister [nation]. When they all rejoin in it, the last of them will say about the first of them, ‘Our Lord, it was they who led us astray; so give them a double punishment of the Fire.’ He will say, ‘It is double for each [of you], but you do not know.’
— Ali Quli Qarai
Surah Al-‘A’raf, Verse 38
38. "He will say: 'Enter you into the (Hell) Fire among the groups of people and jinn that have passed away before you. Whenever a group enters (the Fire), it curses its sister-group; until when they follow each other, all into the Fire, the last of them shall say with regard to the foremost of them: 'Our Lord! These are they who led us astray. Therefore give them a double chastisement of the Fire.' He will say: 'For each one there is double (chastisement), but you do not know'."
One of the shaking scenes on the Day of Retribution is the gathering of the people of Hell and their dispute with each other there. This dispute occurs particularly between the sinners and their chiefs and those leading ones who caused these sinners to be sent into Hell. For this very reason, these evildoers, who had been friends with each other before, here, become enemies to each other. On That Day all friends become enemies except the virtuous ones whose friendship is fixed with each other, both in this world and the coming world. Surah Az-Zukhruf, No.43. Verse 67 says:
The verse begins as follows:
On the Resurrection Day, Allah will tell the disbelievers to enter into the Hell Fire amongst those groups of people and jinn who had paved the path of infidelity and were destroyed before them.
Every nation who enter the Hell Fire will curse the nation that have entered the fire before them and who have the same form of thought. The purpose of the Arabic term 'ukht' (sister), mentioned in this verse, is not the sense of the word 'sister', but its objective meaning is 'of the same ideology'. Therefore, the communities who have followed their leaders in the world very sincerely and affectionately will curse them and will tell them that they have misled them and have brought them into Fire. Thus, they demand that the curse of Allah may be upon them!
At the time when all of them enter the Hell Fire and gather with together therein, those who have entered later, compared with the leaders of them who have entered formerly, will address their Lord, and say that it was those leaders who caused them to be deprived from worshipping Him. They ask Him to increase double their punishment. That is, such leaders invited them to go astray and prevented them to follow the truth. Imam Sadiq (as) in this regard says:
"The purpose is the Imams (leaders) of transgression."
Some commentators have said that the purpose of this phrase is that they deserve two kinds of punishment. The first is the punishment of infidelity, and the second is the punishment of misleading others.