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Reconciling the two hadiths: (The sea is Hellfire) and (Hellfire will be brought on the Day of Resurrection, and it has seventy reins)

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[Reconciling the two hadiths: (The sea is Hellfire) and (Hellfire will be brought on the Day of Resurrection, and it has seventy reins)]

Your Eminence! What is the way to reconcile the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): (The sea is Hellfire) and his saying (peace and blessings be upon him): (On the Day of Resurrection, Hellfire will be brought, and it has seventy thousand reins, with each rein being pulled by seventy thousand angels) How do we reconcile them?

As for the first, which is his saying that he said: (The sea is Hellfire) This is not authentic from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), but many scholars said regarding the saying of Allah the Exalted:
And when the seas are filled with flameوَإِذَا الْبِحَارُ سُجِّرَتْ
[At-Takwir: 6] It is indeed Hellfire,And the meaning of "sajarat" is: which has been kindled, so it becomes fire.
And there is no contradiction between this and that; because the conditions of the Day of Resurrection are not measured by the conditions of this world; the conditions of this world on the Day of Resurrection are not known by anyone -Meaning: no one knows their reality and their depths - except Allah (Mighty and Majestic), or those who witnessed them on the Day of Resurrection. As for now, the conditions of the Hereafter are not known in terms of their reality, and it is not possible for us to measure them by the conditions of this world. It is possible that these seas will be brought on the Day of Resurrection, and they will be fire, pulled by seventy thousand reins, and there is nothing strange in that.

And I tell you: It is not possible to measure the conditions of the Hereafter by the conditions of this world, lest something else greater than this be confused for you, which is that on the Day of Resurrection, the sun will approach the heads until it is at the distance of a mile,And the mile is: either the mile of the kohl stick, which is very short, or the mile of distance, which is approximately one and a half kilometers. And whichever it is, if we measured the conditions of the Hereafter by the conditions of this world, the sun, if it approached people to this extent, would cause them to vanish from existence due to the intensity of its heat.
Also, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) informed that people will sweat on the Day of Resurrection according to their deeds. Some of them will have sweat reaching their ankles, some will have sweat reaching their knees, some will have sweat reaching their waists, and some will be choked by the sweat, and they are in one place.
If we measured this by the conditions of this world, it would be impossible, but the conditions of the Hereafter are not measured by the conditions of this world. This is a matter that a person must be alert to and not measure the conditions of the Hereafter by the conditions of this world. Just as it is not permissible to measure the attributes of Allah (Mighty and Majestic) by the attributes of the created beings,For example: if the hadith comes from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): (Indeed, Allah descends to the lowest heaven when the last third of the night remains) and it is a real descent befitting His Majesty and Greatness,And the noble verse came:
His Kursi extends over the heavens and the earthوَسِعَ كُرْسِيُّهُ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضَ
[Al-Baqarah: 255] and His saying:
and the heavens will be folded in His right handوَالسَّمَاوَاتُ مَطْوِيَّاتٌ بِيَمِينِهِ
[Az-Zumar: 67] he says: How can this be? How can the descent of Allah (Mighty and Majestic) to the lowest heaven be, when the lowest heaven is nothing in relation to Him?It is said: You must listen and believe in the reports, and listen and obey in the rulings, whether your intellect grasps it or not; because what pertains to the Lord (Exalted and Majestic is He) does not resemble what pertains to the created beings. So we believe that Allah descends in a real descent to the lowest heaven when the last third of the night remains, but how is that? Allah knows best. And Imam Malik (may Allah have mercy on him) was asked about the saying of Allah:
The Most Merciful [who is] above the Throne established.الرَّحْمَنُ عَلَى الْعَرْشِ اسْتَوَى
[Ta-Ha: 5] and it was said to him: O Abu 'Abdullah
The Most Merciful [who is] above the Throne established.الرَّحْمَنُ عَلَى الْعَرْشِ اسْتَوَى
[Ta-Ha: 5] How did He rise above? So he lowered his head until sweat - which is perspiration - covered him out of shame and modesty, and out of bearing this great question,Then he raised his head and said: The rising above is not unknown, the how is not comprehensible, belief in it is obligatory, and asking about it is an innovation.
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