Surah Ya-Sin 36:63
سُورَةُ يسٓ · Meccan · Verse 63 of 83
هَٰذِهِۦ جَهَنَّمُ ٱلَّتِى كُنتُمْ تُوعَدُونَ
Translation
So this is the Fire that you were warned against.
English translation: M.A.S. Abdel Haleem.
Meaning and reflection
'This is Hell, which you were promised.' al-Saadi and Ibn Kathir note the plainness: the very thing dismissed as a distant threat is now presented, present-tense, 'this is it.' The promise mocked as unreal becomes a fact pointed at. Ask yourself: I keep certain truths at a comfortable distance by calling them exaggerations, metaphors, threats that surely won't apply to me. This verse collapses that distance into a single word: 'this'. What am I currently treating as an abstract, someday warning that this verse insists will one day simply be shown to me, no longer a promise, but a place?
Grounded in classical tafsir: al-Saadi, Ibn Kathir, Ibn Ashur.
Reflect on this verse
Open Surah Ya-Sin 36:63 in Maani to reflect on it through the Five Lenses: its wording, its context, what it means for you, its connections across the Quran and its lessons, grounded in classical tafsir.