2:81

Balaa man kasaba sayyi'atanw wa ahaatat bihee khateee'atuhoo fa-ulaaa'ika Ashaabun

Naari hum feehaa khaalidoon

Indeed, whoever commits misdeeds, and becomes besieged by his iniquities-these are
the inmates of the Fire, wherein they will dwell forever.

Yes! Whosoever earns evil and his sin has surrounded him, they are dwellers of the
Fire
(i.e. Hell) they will dwell therein forever

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ASBAB AL NUZUL

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- Allah says, the matter is not as you have wished and hoped it to be. Rather,
whoever does an
evil deed and abides purposefully in his error, coming on the Day of Resurrection
with no good
deeds, only evil deeds, then he will be among the people of the Fire.

"And those who believe and do righteous good deeds" meaning, "They believe in Allah
and His
Messenger and perform the good deeds that conform with the Islamic Law. They shall
be among
the people of Paradise.

- Allah said in a similar statement

"It will not be in accordance with your desires (Muslims), nor those of the People
of the
Scripture (Jews and Christians), whosoever works evil, will have the recompense
thereof , and
he will not find any protector or helper besides Allah. And whoever does righteous
good deeds,
male or female, and is a (true) believer in the Oneness of Allah (Muslim), such
will enter
Paradise and not the least injustice, even the size of a Naqira (speck on the back
of a date
stone), will be done to them" (4:123-124).

- Also, Abu Hurayrah, Abu Wail, 'Ata', and Al-Hasan said that

"And his sin has surrounded him" means,

- "His Shirk (polytheism) has surrounded him.

Also, Al-Amash reported from Abu Razin that Ar-Rabi bin Khuthaym said,

"And his sin has surrounded him"

meaning Whoever dies before repenting from his wrongs.

As-Suddi and Abu Razin said similarly.

- Abu Al-Aliyah, Mujahid, Al-Hasan, Qatadah and Ar-Rabi bin Anas

said that
"And his sin has surrounded him" refers to major sins. All of these statements
carry similar
meanings, and Allah knows best

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- When Small Sins gather, They bring about Destruction

"Here we should mention the Hadith that Imam Ahmad recorded, in which Abdullah bin
Masud
said that the Messenger of Allah said

"Beware of the belittled sins, because they gather on a person until they destroy
him"

He then said that the Messenger of Allah gave them an example,

"This is the example of people who set up camp on a flat land, and then their
servants came.
One of them collected some wood and another man collected some wood until they
collected a
great deal. They then started a fire and cooked what they put on it "

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TAFSIR AL TUSTARI

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Decoding the Quran

No! The truth is not as they assume! Whoever earns evil (through his thoughts or
actions) and his mistake encompasses him (his system of thought blinds him from the
truth) those are the people of the fire (suffering) eternally.

...
[2:81] Not so, it will touch you and you will abide therein; whoever earns evil,
through associating another with God, and is encompassed by his transgression, in
the singular and the plural, that is to say, it overcomes him and encircles him
totally, for, he has died an idolater — those are the inhabitants of the Fire,
therein abiding (khālidūn: this [plural noun] takes account of the [plural] import
of man, ‘whoever’).