hooks, grappling irons, and broad, flat thorns with small hooked barbs, found in Najd and called saʿdān. The believers will cross it like the blink of an eye, like lightning, like the wind, and like swift horses and riding camels. Some will escape unharmed, others will escape with scratches, and others will be cast headlong into the fire of Hell, until the last of them crosses, dragged along.

You do not plead with me for a right that has become clear to you as insistently as the believers will plead that Day with the Compeller on behalf of their brothers, once they see that they themselves have been saved. They will say, “Our Lord, our brothers who used to pray with us