Exegesis of the saying of Allah the Exalted: “Then indeed their return is to the Hellfire.”

This means that after that, their return will be to the Hellfire. The phrase you see is a nominal sentence; it did not say “then they will return,” but rather said , which is emphasized by two emphatic markers: *in* and the *lam*. There is a question regarding this order: is it a chronological order or a semantic order? The author holds that it is a semantic order, though it is possible that it is a chronological order. That is, after Allah (Mighty and Majestic) mentioned what they have of this punishment, He clarified that their return on the Day of Resurrection is to this Hellfire, and they do not return to anything else.