The Holy Quran 74:17 — Surah Al-Muddaththir

Arabic text

سَأُرْهِقُهُۥ صَعُودًا

Translation

I shall soon make him climb a mountain of Jahannam. (Rasulullaah ﷺ said that the mountain refers to a mountain of fire in Jahannam that will take a person seventy years to climb and another seventy years to descend. This will continue forever without any respite.)

Tafsir (excerpt) — Tafsir Usmani

That is, he has yet to make a very steep ascent and to be caught in the severest calamities. Some narrations state that “Sa'ud” (صَعُود, “the ascent”) is a mountain in Hell which the disbeliever will be made to climb and be thrown down from for ever; this too is a kind of punishment. (Note:) Once Walid came to the Prophet ﷺ.

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