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Article: Other faiths, other hells. (Cover Story)
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- March 25, 1991
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But for the wrongdoers will be an evil place of final return! Hell! They will burn therein - an evil bed indeed to lie on ! The threat of painful punishment in the hereafter has its counterparts in nearly every major world religion, as well as some minor ones.
In Islam, which shares common roots with Christianity and Judaism, hell is depicted as a huge crater of fire beneath a narrow bridge that all souls must pass over to go to paradise. Those who are judged by Allah as unworthy fall from the bridge and suffer endless physical torments in one of seven layers of hell. The Koran, Islam's holy book written in the seventh century A.D., uses much of the same infernal ...
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