Before I respond, my question, do bahais believe in hell or not? If you do, the context of hell verses and day of judgment go together in that the day of judgment is when people go hell in it's full form.
I had explained this before.
Hell or Heaven are not about physical life after death, as understood by most people.
Hell and Heaven are metaphors. They are spiritual station.
Day of Resurrection is a Metaphor for Time of the Next Manifestation at the End of Islamic Dispensation.
Those who are successful in recognition of the new Manifestation, will enter Heaven.
But Heaven is not a place to enter.
It is a metaphor for the new Faith.
The new Faith, is Heaven metaphorically, because it has all the good things, such as Huris, Flowing wine, garden with fruits. All of these are metaphors for teachings and spiritual happiness that the believers would get if they recognize the new Manifestation and enter the garden (Baha'i Faith in this case as Bahais believe). Hell, is a metaphor. When on the Day of Resurrection, people dont do good deeds, and just blindly follow their forefathers, they will be in Hell. Hell is not a place. It is a metaphor for disbelief, and spiritual degradation. Hell is in this world. It is now. When God punishes them, when they go through wars, suffering, all of these are Hell, or Fire. This punishment or Hell, is the result of rejection of truth in our time. The purpose of Hell Fire, is to purify, and hopefully causes people to wake up from their spiritual sleep.
The Heaven or Hell that is promised in the Quran, is for Day of Resurrection at the End of Islam. But Hell and Heaven has not been specifically for End time of Islam. At the End of the Time of any of the previous Religions, Hell and Heaven was manifested. Consider what Jesus said:
"And no man hath ascended up to Heaven, but He that came down from Heaven, even the
Son of Man who is in Heaven."
Consider, at that time, Jesus was on earth, but He said, son of Man is in Heaven!
And consider these verses of the Quran:
وَٱعْتَصِمُوا۟ بِحَبْلِ ٱللَّهِ جَمِيعًۭا وَلَا تَفَرَّقُوا۟ ۚ وَٱذْكُرُوا۟ نِعْمَتَ ٱللَّهِ عَلَيْكُمْ إِذْ كُنتُمْ أَعْدَآءًۭ فَأَلَّفَ بَيْنَ قُلُوبِكُمْ فَأَصْبَحْتُم بِنِعْمَتِهِۦٓ إِخْوَٰنًۭا وَكُنتُمْ عَلَىٰ شَفَا حُفْرَةٍۢ مِّنَ ٱلنَّارِ فَأَنقَذَكُم مِّنْهَا ۗ كَذَٰلِكَ يُبَيِّنُ ٱللَّهُ لَكُمْ ءَايَـٰتِهِۦ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَهْتَدُونَ ١٠٣
"Remember the blessing of Allah upon you: When you were enemies to each other, and He brought your hearts together, so that, you became brothers through His blessing.
You were at the brink of a pit of Fire, then He saved you from it. This is how Allah makes His signs clear to you, so that you may take the right path." 3:103
Consider, it says, they were in the brink of pit of Fire (شفا حفرة من النار).
now consider these verses:
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Would I take any gods other than Him? if the Merciful intends me some harm, their intercession will not help me at all, nor can they save me.
36:24 I would then be clearly misguided.
36:25 I have believed in your Lord, so listen to me."
36:26 It was said [to him], "Enter Paradise." He said, "I wish that my people only knew
36:27 how my Lord has forgiven me and placed me among the highly honored."
Notice, this man, already entered Paradise! it is not like, there will be a Day, people physically will be resurrected, and then go to Heaven or Hell! No, once this man believed in the Messenger of the Time, he entered the Paradise, the Heaven, Al-jannah. Meaning he had entered the Faith of God!
This Hell and Heaven had always existed and manifested at the end of each Religion, in the same way, the Day of Resurrection had always come at end of each Religion. But people misunderstood these Symbolic Terms!
