Some scholars have said that whenever a man gets on top of a man, the angels flee and the earth screams to its Lord, the wrath of the Almighty – may His glory be glorified – descends upon them, the curse envelops them, the devils surround them, the earth asks permission of its Lord to collapse from under them, the throne bears down on its support, the angels say takbir [“Allahu akbar”], and hell blazes with fire. And if the messengers of Allah come to him to seize his spirit, they bring it to the dwelling of his brothers and the place of their torment, and his spirit is among their spirits, and this is the narrowest place and the greatest torment in the furnace of the fornicators. There is no pleasure worth this painful torment that would drive its perpetrator into companionship with the associates of hell.