Surah Ibrahim Ayat 18

Jika dalam ayat-ayat di atas Allah telah menjelaskan azab yang akan diderita orang-orang kafir dalam neraka Jahanam, maka dalam ayat ini dijelaskan-Nya kerugian besar yang akan mereka derita, yaitu pahala dari amalan kebajikan mereka di dunia, kalau ada, dihapus Allah. Dengan demikian, mereka tidak dapat merasakan manfaat apapun dari amalan kebajikan yang mungkin pernah mereka perbuat di dunia. Amalan-amalan mereka itu diibaratkan oleh ayat ini bagaikan abu yang ditiup angin kencang, hilang tanpa kesan. Keadaan yang demikian adalah akibat dari kesesatan mereka dan penyelewengan yang jauh sekali dari petunjuk Allah swt.

The likeness the description of those who disbelieve in their Lord alladhīna kafarū bi-rabbihim the subject substituted by the following a‘māluhum their works the righteous ones such as kindness to kin or an act of charity — in the way that no benefit can be derived from them it is because these works — are as ashes over which the wind blows hard on a tempestuous day one in which the winds blow violently making them as scattered dust over which none can have power the genitive clause beginning with ka-ramādin ‘as ashes’ constitutes the predicate of the above-mentioned subject; they that is the disbelievers have no power over anything that they have earned anything that they had done in their life on earth in other words they shall find no reward for it since this was never a precondition. That is extreme error extreme perdition!