Aug 9, 2026 · 28 min · 8 segments
﷽ Sūrat al-Maʿārij offers a sobering picture of the Day of Judgment: \* a day when when a woman would abandon her own child; \* a day when I man would offer his own mother as ransom to escape the…
Marc ManleyHost
And then an important fact, He doesn't dwell on the Day of Judgment in this particular chapter on the physical phenomena of it, which He does in some others about the sky being torn apart and all these others.
But He talks about two short descriptions and then He says, وَلَا يَسْأَلُوا حَمِيمٌ حَمِيمًا And that no Hamim will ask another Hamim.
So what is Hamim? So the meaning of Hamim here is kind of like Khalil or like Sadiq, like Qawi, like a very intimate companion.
And so the Arabs, when they would burn Bakhoor, when they would burn their incense, the coal that you would set on the wood or on the resin or whatnot to get the...
That's why we have the hammam, right? When you go to the hammam, what is it? What is the hammam? The hammam, we use the word hammam now, like I gotta go to the bathroom.
So you can think of the hameem, like I'm kind of saying we have in English, where there's water, I mean, where there's smoke, there's fire.
that are bonded together that's why actually the idols would have the saying that the hamim is that it's it's like the heavy intense rain that comes after uh intense heat you know um Maybe in the desert, you know, sometimes when you get like a really intense heat and then boom, it won't rain.
Where I grew up in Michigan, in the summertime especially, you would get this intense humidity.
And so there's this symbiotic sort of relationship between heat and and some other trigger, right? So that's the Hameem.
So Allah Ta'ala is saying on the Day of Judgment that the Hameem will not question another Hameem.
These are people that in this life would have been as inseparable as smoke from fire.
And I was thinking about how when we, you know, the day of judgment will be obviously a day unlike any other day.
And then an important fact, He doesn't dwell on the Day of Judgment in this particular chapter on the physical phenomena of it, which He does in some others about the sky being torn apart and all these others.
But He talks about two short descriptions and then He says, وَلَا يَسْأَلُوا حَمِيمٌ حَمِيمًا And that no Hamim will ask another Hamim.
So what is Hamim? So the meaning of Hamim here is kind of like Khalil or like Sadiq, like Qawi, like a very intimate companion.
And so the Arabs, when they would burn Bakhoor, when they would burn their incense, the coal that you would set on the wood or on the resin or whatnot to get the...
That's why we have the hammam, right? When you go to the hammam, what is it? What is the hammam? The hammam, we use the word hammam now, like I gotta go to the bathroom.
So you can think of the hameem, like I'm kind of saying we have in English, where there's water, I mean, where there's smoke, there's fire.
that are bonded together that's why actually the idols would have the saying that the hamim is that it's it's like the heavy intense rain that comes after uh intense heat you know um Maybe in the desert, you know, sometimes when you get like a really intense heat and then boom, it won't rain.
Where I grew up in Michigan, in the summertime especially, you would get this intense humidity.
And so there's this symbiotic sort of relationship between heat and and some other trigger, right? So that's the Hameem.
So Allah Ta'ala is saying on the Day of Judgment that the Hameem will not question another Hameem.
These are people that in this life would have been as inseparable as smoke from fire.
And I was thinking about how when we, you know, the day of judgment will be obviously a day unlike any other day.
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