What are the sayings of the scholars regarding the interpretation of the Noble Verse: "The Fire, they are exposed to it morning and evening, and on the Day the Hour is established, [it will be said], 'Admit the people of Pharaoh to the severest torment'"?
The Sunnis have cited the Almighty’s saying, "The Fire, they are exposed to it morning and evening; and the Day the Hour is established [it will be said], 'Admit the people of Pharaoh to the severest punishment'" [Ghafir:46] as proof for the punishment of Al-Barzakh. The essence of the scholars' interpretations regarding it are three: 1. That the souls of Pharaoh’s people are in the bellies of black birds, exposed to the Fire morning and evening until the Hour is established. 2. That they are exposed to their dwellings in the Fire as a torment for them morning and evening. 3. That this exposure will occur in the Hereafter.
The correct view is what the majority has adopted: that the exposure is in Al-Barzakh, and that the verse explicitly proves the torment of the grave before the establishment of the Hour, and that there is no evidence for the claim of reordering or deferring the words.
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