سورة الزخرف

Ibn Abbas (may Allah have mercy on him): فَبِئْسَ الْقَرِینُ [so evil is the associate!] — how evil a companion you were for me in the world, and how evil a companion you are for me today; for the two of them are bound together in a single chain, so that their punishment and grief may be increased.

The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family): "O Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him and his family)! Inform me, how many angels accompany [each] servant?" He said: "An angel on your right for [recording] your good deeds; he is the trusted one over the angel on the left. Whenever you do a good deed, he writes it as ten, and whenever you do a bad deed, the angel on the left says to the angel on the right: 'Shall I write it?'" [The angel on the right] says: "No; [wait]! Perhaps he will repent." When he says this three times, [the right-hand angel] says: "Yes; write it. May Allah relieve us of him. فَبِئْسَ الْقَرِینُ [so evil is the associate] — how little is his watchfulness of Allah and his shame before us."

Imam Baqir (peace be upon him): It is narrated from Jabir ibn Yazid al-Ju'fi that Imam Baqir (peace be upon him) said: When Allah wishes to take the soul of an unbeliever, He says: "O Angel of Death, go with your helpers to My enemy, for I invited him to Dar al-Salam but he turned away and reviled Me, and he disbelieved in Me and in My blessings and reproached Me upon My Throne. Take his soul and cast him into the Fire." So the Angel of Death comes to him with an ugly, dark face; his eyes have a terrifying flash and his voice is like crashing thunder... So when he looks at the Angel of Death, his gaze becomes fixed and his intellect leaves him. He says: "O Angel of Death, return me." The Angel of Death says: Never! This is [only] a word he utters. (Al-Mu'minun/100) He says: "O Angel of Death, then to whom shall I entrust my wealth and children and family and clan and my belongings in the world?" He says: "Leave them for someone other than yourself, and go to Hell." He strikes him with an iron rod, a blow that penetrates every vein and sinew of his body; then he drags him so that his soul comes up from the soles of his feet, and when it reaches his knees, he orders his helpers, who beat him with whips and throw him down and lift him up again, and before his soul comes out they make him taste the agonies of death. It is as if he has been struck with a thousand swords, and were he to have the strength of jinn and mankind, every vein of his body would open its lips to complain before him from the severity of the pain of a many-branched iron rod placed on wet wool, which uproots whatever it touches. Such is the exit of the unbeliever's soul from the veins, limbs, joints and hairs. So when the soul reaches the throat, the angels strike his face and his back and say to him: أَخْرِجُوا أَنْفُسَکُمُ الْیَوْمَ تُجْزَوْنَ عَذابَ الْهُونِ بِما کُنْتُمْ تَقُولُونَ عَلَی اللهِ غَیْرَ الْحَقِّ وَ کُنْتُمْ عَنْ آیاتِهِ تَسْتَکْبِرُونَ [Give up your souls; this day you shall be recompensed with the punishment of humiliation because you spoke against Allah other than the truth and you rejected His signs out of arrogance]. Then they push him and his fall lasts seventy thousand years until he strikes the hammers. When he strikes them, they pound upon him and upon his devil, and the devil binds him with a chain. Every time he raises his head and looks at the ugliness of his devil's face, his face becomes black and he says: "یا لَیْتَ بَیْنِی وَ بَیْنَکَ بُعْدَ الْمَشْرِقَیْنِ فَبِئْسَ الْقَرِینُ [O would that between me and you there were the distance of the East and the West; so evil is the associate!]; woe to you, for you led me astray — take away some of Allah's punishment from me." He says: "O wretched one! How shall I remove any punishment from you when you and I on this day share in the punishment together?" Then he strikes him a blow on his head, with which he falls for seventy thousand years until he reaches a spring called Aniyah.

The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family): حَتَّی إِذا جاءَنا قالَ یا لَیْتَ بَیْنِی وَ بَیْنَکَ بُعْدَ الْمشْرِقَیْنِ فَبِئْسَ الْقَرِینُ [Until when he comes to Us, he says: O would that between me and you there were the distance of the East and the West; so evil is the associate!]; O son of Mas'ud! Such people find fault with those who follow the obligations of Allah and my sunnah.

The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family): Imam Sadiq (peace be upon him) said: When the Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) went on the Mi'raj, it was said to him: Allah will test you with three calamities to see how your patience is. The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him and his family) said: "O my Lord! I submit to and obey Your commands, and I have no strength for patience except through Your help. What are these calamities?" It was said to him: ... The third is the calamity of the killing of your Ahl al-Bayt after your passing ... They will also wrong your daughter, and she will be deprived of her right, and the right which you appointed for her will be usurped from her; and while she is pregnant, she will be beaten, and they will enter her sanctuary and her house without permission. Then she will be subjected to humiliation and disgrace, and in this calamity she will have no helper. As a result, due to those blows, the child she carries in her womb will be miscarried, and then she herself will die from those blows. The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him and his family) said: إِنَّا لِلهِ وَ إِنَّا إِلَیْهِ راجِعُونَ [Indeed we belong to Allah, and indeed to Him we shall return]. O my Lord! I accept, and I have submitted myself to Your commands, and I ask You for the tawfiq (grace) of patience and endurance ... And I will keep your daughter beside My Throne. It will be said to her: Allah has made you the arbiter over His creation. So concerning those who have wronged you and your children, judge as you wish, for I approve your judgement against them. You too will witness this event. At that time, the one who wronged her will be held before her. She will order that person to be cast into the Fire. That oppressor in this situation will say: 'Alas for me for the shortcomings I committed in obedience to Allah's command.' (Zumar/56) And he will wish for death once and for all, and the oppressor will bite his hand [out of intense regret] and say: 'Would that I had taken a path with the Messenger [of Allah]!' (Furqan/27). He will also say: حَتَّی إِذَا جَاءنَا قَال یا لیتَ بَینِی و بَینَکَ بُعْدَ المَشْرِقَینِ فَبِئْسَ القَرِینُ * و لن ینفَعَکُمُ الیومَ إِذ ظَّلمْتُمْ أَنَّکُمْ فِی العَذَابِ مُشْتَرِکُونَ [Until when he comes to Us, he says: O would that between me and you there were the distance of the East and the West; so evil is the associate! And since you were unjust, it will not profit you this day that you are sharers in the chastisement.].