يَوْمَ يُدَعُّونَ إِلَى نَارِ جَهَنَّمَ دَعًّا Theme: an unstoppable, forceful thrust toward Hell—powerlessness to repel, relentless motion toward a glaring, hostile blaze.
يُدَعُّونَ comes from دَعّ (Da’a’) and means to push something forcefully or violently.
The دَعًّا at the end adds intensity to the verb and is known in Arabic as a مَفْهُوم مُطْلَق (Mafhoom Mutlaq).
The language couples force and inevitability: an external shove that overpowers any imagined resistance. The emphasis marks certainty and severity in how they are driven.
Intensity rises from verb to cognate emphasis, mirroring a surge from threat to contact.
This is like the first stage of them entering hellfire where they are being pushed and shoved towards it.
Surah Al-Furqan states: إِذَا رَأَتْهُم مِّن مَّكَانٍ بَعِيدٍ — providing an image of them progressing towards hell and the terrifying reality of hell seeing them, as a living entity.
The image is of them being pushed and shoved towards this hungry beast that is intensely staring at them without any power to resist.
One of the names of hellfire is جَحِيم (Jaheem).
It comes from the word جُحْم (Juhm) Note: It actually comes from جَحَّمَ – تَحْجِيم according to classical dictionaries.
It provides the meaning of intense visual fixation — fixing one’s gaze without blinking and locking one’s eyes upon something in an intense and aggressive manner, like a lion staring at its prey indicating hostile intent and readiness to attack.
Forceful pushing (يُدَعُّونَ … دَعًّا) conveys that on that Day, motion is imposed upon them; there is no counter-force — “There is no repeller of it”.
They are driven toward a blaze that “sees” them from afar — the Jaheem’s locked, hostile gaze, like a predator fixed on its prey.