Is hell going to be eternal for anyone acording to the Quran
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Salam,
Compiled in the below article are the sequence of events that deal with Heaven/Hell and which might shed light on the discussion in this thread regarding the nature of Hell etc.
http//free-minds.org/sites/default/files/Hell.pdf
Salaam brother Layth,
The link you gave is take to "page not found" page, please check.
And also PMs are not working.
Mohammed M. Khan
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This is from the introduction to Maulana Muhammad Ali's English translation of the Koran
Hell is meant for purification.
Quite in accordance with the idea of paradise as a place of unending progress to higher stages of life is the idea of hell, where punishment is not meant for torture but for purification, in order to make a man fit for spiritual advancement...
..."And I have not created the jinn and the men except that they should serve Me" (5156).
They must, therefore, ultimately be made fit for service of God, and that is the higher life. With all its fearfulness, hell is called a maula (patron) of the sinners, in one place (5715), and their umm (mother) in another (1019). Both these descriptions of hell are a clear indication that hell is meant only to purify a man of the dross which he has accumulated with his own hands, just as fire purifies gold of dross. In fact, it is to point to this truth that the Holy Qur'an uses the word fitnah (which originally means the assaying of gold, or casting it into fire to purify it of dross), both of the persecutions which the faithful are made to suffer (2191); 292; 2910) and of the punishment which the evildoers shall suffer in hell (3763), where the food which those in hell shall be given is called fitnah, because the object in both cases is the same, the faithful being purified through persecutions and the evildoers by hell-fire. Therefore hell is called a patron of the sinners, because, through suffering, it will make them fit for spiritual progress; and it is called a mother of the sinners to show that its connection with them is that of a mother with her child, the sinners being brought up, as it were, in the bosom of hell. The fire is a source of torment, but it is also a purifier. The keenness of the torment of the other life is due to the keener perception of the soul, which is the necessary result of its separation from the earthly vessel. Bliss and torment, therefore, grow keener in that life.
Punishment of hell not everlasting.
"He will say The Fire is your abode--you shall abide therein, except as Allah please. Surely thy Lord is Wise, Knowing." 6128
"Then as for those who are unhappy, they will be in the fire; for them therein will be sighing and groaning--abiding therein so long as the heavens and the earth endure, except as thy Lord please. Surely thy Lord is Doer of what He intends." 11106-7
Both there verses show clearly that the punishment of hell is not everlasting...