For those of you who've never read the Quran, let me summarize it for you: And for the disbelievers, Allah has prepared a painful doom.

This idea is so important that Allah (or his prophet) repeats it nearly 200 times in the Quran. Here are just a few variants.

For disbelievers is a painful doom. Quran 2:104

Those who disbelieve the revelations of Allah ... promise them a painful doom. 3:21

Give tidings (O Muhammad) of a painful doom to those who disbelieve. 9:3

Those who vex the messenger of Allah, for them there is a painful doom. 9:61

Theirs will be a boiling drink and painful doom because they disbelieved. 10:4

And that's just a sample of the 56 verses in the Quran that describe the "painful doom" that unbelievers will endure. There are also 25 "awful doom" verses, 9 "shameful dooms", 4 "dreadful dooms", 3 "dooms of fire", and another 40 or so differently named dooms. Plus 65 verses that mention just a plain old "doom" -- and a couple hundred or so that describe Hell, the Fire, etc.

But my favorite doom verse is this one (If you don't believe in hell, guess where you'll be going):

Those who believe not in the Hereafter, for them We have prepared a painful doom. 17:10
Here is a list of the various dooms that are mentioned in the Quran:

Doom (197)
Painful Doom (56)
Awful doom (25)
Shameful Doom (9)
Dreadful Doom (4)
Doom of Hell (4)
Doom of the Hereafter (4)
Hour (of Doom) (4)
Doom of Fire (3)
Harsh Doom (2)
Heavy Doom (2)
Allah's Doom (2)
Lasting Doom (2)
Grievous Doom (1)
Evil Doom (1)
Dolorous Doom (1)
Everlasting Doom (1)
Terrific Doom (1)
Fearful Doom (1)
Doom of Degradation (1)
Doom of the Disdained (1)
Doom of Ignominy (1)
Doom of Allah (1)
Doom of Burning (2)
Doom of Flame (1)
Doom of Immortality (1)
Gulf of Doom (1)
Word of Doom (2)
Doom of Humiliation (1)
Doom of a Tremendous Day (1)
Doom of a Disastrous Day (1)
The Doomed (1)
Doom to Doom (1)

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