سورة المؤمنون

Imam Baqir (peace be upon him): What is meant by the verse حَتَّی إِذا فَتَحْنا عَلَیْهِمْ باباً ذا عَذابٍ شَدیدٍ [Until when We open upon them a door of severe chastisement] is Ali ibn Abi Talib (peace be upon him), at the time when the raj'a (return) takes place and he returns to this world.

Imam Sadiq (peace be upon him): The verse حَتَّی إِذا فَتَحْنا عَلَیْهِمْ باباً ذا عَذابٍ شَدیدٍ [Until when We open upon them a door of severe chastisement] refers to that time when the Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) cursed them and said: "O Allah! Make that [time] upon them years like the years of Yusuf (peace be upon him), that they may go hungry" — until they ate al-'ilhiz, which was a kind of food they made by mixing camel-wool with blood (and roasting it).

Ali ibn Ibrahim (may Allah have mercy on him): إِذا هُمْ فِیهِ مُبْلِسُونَ [lo! they are in despair at it] — they became hopeless.