Allah the Exalted also said, “Who is more unjust than one who forges a lie against Allah or denies His signs? Such people will receive their allotted share from the Book until, when Our messengers come to take their souls, they will ask, ‘Where are those you used to call upon besides Allah?’ They will answer, ‘They have abandoned us,’ and they will bear witness against themselves that they were disbelievers. 37 He will say, ‘Enter among the nations of jinn and humankind that passed away before you into the Fire.’ Whenever a nation enters, it will curse its sister nation, and when they have all caught up with one another therein, the last of them will say to the first of them, ‘Our Lord, these are the ones who led us astray; so give them a double punishment in the Fire.’ He will reply, ‘For each of you is double, but you do not realize it.’ 38 And the first of them will say to the last of them, ‘You had no advantage over us, so taste the punishment for what you used to earn.’ 39” (1)

Let the discerning person ponder these verses and the lessons they contain.

In His words, “forges a lie against Allah or denies His signs,” two categories of falsehood-mongers are mentioned:

1. The originator of falsehood and fabrication—he who invents it and calls people to it.
2. The one who rejects the truth. (2)

The first disbelieves by concocting falsehood; the second disbelieves by repudiating the truth. Both conditions befall every purveyor of error. If, in addition, he invites others to his falsehood and turns people away from the truth, he deserves a multiplied punishment, because his disbelief and his evil have multiplied. (3) Hence Allah the Exalted said: “Those who…"