سورة البقرة

Imam Reza (peace be upon him): Indeed Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, does not mock, ridicule, scheme or deceive; rather He, the Mighty and Majestic, repays the mockery, ridicule, scheming and deception of those hypocrites. [The attributes of] Allah are far above what the wrongdoers say, greatly exalted.

Imam Kazim (peace be upon him): Allah will give them the recompense for their mockery in this world and the hereafter.

Imam Kazim (peace be upon him): Allah mocks them (the hypocrites) in this world in this way: because they pretended to hear and obey, He compels them to perform only the outward rulings of Islam. (Deeds that carry no reward, only the hardship of performing them falls upon them.)

Imam Kazim (peace be upon him): Allah mocks them in this world in this way: ... He commands the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him and his family) to curse them and to speak and deal with them by allusion, so that the sincere believers may grasp what he means by that allusion [and understand that they are hypocrites].

Imam Kazim (peace be upon him): Allah mocks them in the hereafter in this way: when He places them in the abode of curse and disgrace and torments them with the various strange kinds of punishment, He places the believers in the gardens of paradise beside the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him and his family), who is Allah's chosen one. [Allah] informs the believers of the state of those who used to mock them in the world, so that they may see them in strange curses and diverse torments. The joy of the people of paradise, when they see them in this state and rebuke and reproach them, is like their joy at enjoying the blessings of paradise. The believers know the names and attributes of those disbelieving hypocrites. The disbelievers and hypocrites also look and see the believers whom, in the world, they had mocked on account of accepting the wilayah of Muhammad (peace be upon him and his family) and Ali (peace be upon him) and their household (peace be upon them), enjoying various kinds of divine blessings and gifts. The believers, while looking down upon those disbelievers and hypocrites, say: "O so-and-so! O so-and-so! O so-and-so"! And they call them by their names and ask them why they remain in the stations of disgrace and humiliation, and how they are. Come to us so that we may open for you the gates of paradise so that you may be released from your punishment and join us. They answer: "Woe to us! How can we do this and be freed"? At that moment the believers say: "Look at these gates". The disbelievers look at the opened gates of paradise and imagine that those gates open toward them and toward the hell in which they are being punished, and that they can be saved through them. So they begin to flounder in the sea of hamim (scalding boiling water) of hell and run in the presence of the guardians of hell; while the guardians of hell strike them with pillars, maces and their whips; yet the disbelievers keep running toward the gates and taste these punishments; the hypocrites continue this action until they are able to reach those gates, but at that moment they find the gates closed, and the guardians pound them with their pillars and drive them back into hell; at that moment they see the believers seated on their couches, sneering at them and mocking them. This is the meaning of the word of Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, who says: فَالْیَوْمَ الَّذِینَ آمَنُوا مِنَ الْکُفَّارِ یَضْحَکُونَ عَلَی الْأَرائِکِ یَنْظُرُونَ [So today those who believe shall laugh at the disbelievers, on couches, looking on.]

Ibn Abbas (may Allah have mercy on him): When the Day of Resurrection comes, Allah the Exalted commands His servants to pass over the Sirat (bridge). The believers find their way to Paradise and the hypocrites fall into Hell. Then Allah the Exalted orders the keeper of Hell to mock the hypocrites in Hell. The keeper of Hell opens a door from Hell towards Paradise and calls out to them thus: 'O company of hypocrites! Come, come and ascend from Hell towards Paradise.' The hypocrites flounder for seventy autumns in the seas of Hell until they reach that door and set about coming out of it. Suddenly the keeper of Hell shuts that door in their faces and opens another door in another place facing Paradise for them and says: "Come out through this door towards Paradise". They flounder just as the first time and set off in that direction. When they arrive there, that door too is shut in their faces and another door is opened in another place, and this torment continues forever.

Ibn Abbas (may Allah have mercy on him): Allah says [in the Hereafter]: "O keeper of Hell! Mock the hypocrites in Hell".

Imam Kazim (peace be upon him): [Allah] grants them respite and time, calls them to repentance, and promises them that if they repent, they will receive divine forgiveness.

Imam Askari (peace be upon him): [Allah] grants them respite and, out of His kindness, gives them an opportunity, and [also] invites them to repentance, and promises them that if they turn back to Allah from their way, He will forgive them.

Ali ibn Ibrahim (may Allah have mercy on him): یَمُدُّهُمْ [He leaves them alone] means Allah leaves them to their own state.

Imam Kazim (peace be upon him): They do not give up their reprehensible conduct, and they do not stop harming Muhammad (peace be upon him and his family) and Ali (peace be upon him); rather, they inflict on those two great ones every harm and injury within their power.

Imam Kazim (peace be upon him): They wander bewildered like the blind, and do not give up their evil deeds.