✦⋆· said, "If a bucket of the pus [of Hell] was to be poured where the sun rises, the skulls of the people living where it sets would boil."

● "The people of the Fire to experience the least pain will be wearing slippers of fire, whilst their brains will be boiling due to the [intensity of the] heat of their slippers."

✦⋆· "Beware of the Fire whose din is ready, whose flames are fierce, and whose pain is ever fresh."

● "When the ZaqqUm and the cactus boil in the stomachs of the people of the Fire, like boiling water, they will ask for a drink, and will be given a drink made of pus and festering matter. One will swallow it painfully but will not enjoy it, and death will come to him from all sides though he will not die."

● "The person to experience the greatest punishment will be the man who recompenses good done unto him with evil."

● "The person to experience the greatest pain on the Day of Resurrection will be the one who was dissatisfied with the decree of Allah."

✦⋆· "Some people will burn in the Fire, until they are burned to ashes [and become pure] - then they will be taken out through intercession."

✦⋆· said, relating what Gabriel (as) once said to the Prophet (saw), "If only one link of the chains that exist in Hell was to be tied down on this world, the world would melt by its heat."

● Imam Sadiq (as) said, relating what Gabriel (as) said to the Prophet (saw), "If only one garment from among the garments of the people of the Fire was to be hung between the sky and the earth, the people of this world would die of its smell."

● Imam Sadiq (as) said, relating what Gabriel said to the Prophet (saw), "If one drop of the cactus [of Hell] was to drop in the drink of the people of this world, they would die of its stench."[zaqqUm: bitter fruit from a certain tree in Hell]

● "Verily there is a valley in Hell reserved for the arrogant, called Saqar, which complained to Allah, Mighty and Exalted, about its severe heat and asked His permission to breathe. So it breathed, and thus ignited Hell!"

● "The people of the Fire will be kept permanently in the Fire because their intentions in the world were such that if they were to live forever therein, they would disobey Allah forever.

And verily the people of Paradise will also be made to remain in Paradise permanently because their intentions in this world were to obey Allah if only they were to live there forever.

So, it is due to their intentions that these and those have their permanent residence." Then Imam recited the word of Allah, the Exalted: "Say, Everyone acts according to his character" and said that it means according to his intention."

✦⋆· "Allah will not retain anybody in the Fire permanently except the people of disbelief, denial, error and polytheism. And whoever shuns the major sins from among the believers will not be asked about the minor ones."