you have misunderstood the question posed by the atheists and also sh. asrar's answer. besides, you are not paraphrasing him correctly. if you write down a transcript of the last few minutes - I think it will be self-evident to you where it is that you are mistaken.
The question was: how could someone tolerate burning forever? Sheikh Asrar's answer was in that context. He said the questioner's mistake lies in analyzing the punishment of hell with the human body that we have on earth, and then he goes on to mention the transformed bodies in hell along with the example of bearable dunyawi life imprisonment. If a person imagines the everlasting punishment in hell as intolerable, how is that a mistake to begin with? I'm only wondering if this indeed is a valid view.
please listen again. he didn't say hellfire would be "bearable" - he said "it is in accordance with that realm". he used the word "bearable" only for the analogy he gave - of dunyawi incarceration. -- it's in bahar e shari'at that death will be brought in the shape of a ram - at a place that would be visible to the denizens of heaven and hell both - and it will be slaughtered - and they will be informed that no one will die ever again. So the people of hell will abide in it forever. The exact mechanism of how that will happen is known to Allah ta'ala. we have some pointers in the Qur'an al-Kareem, for example, that their skins will be continually renewed - so that they keep feeling the punishment as if for the first time - so that neither would they get destroyed (burnt to mere insensate remnants) - nor would they get accustomed to the heat and pain. in hadith ( as sh. asrar noted ) we have another pointer that their bodies will be modified in such a way as to heighten their sensation of pain. In short, the point he was making is that those "hellish bodies" would not be subject to annihilation. The punishment would be such that they suffer endlessly. --- I agree that he could have explained it in better words. wa Allahu a'alam
Around 7:20 onwards, he explains the eternal suffering of hell and says people of hell would have a different type of body and therefore their punishment, while painful and uncomfortable, would still be bearable in the sense that they can still stay in hell. I never heard any scholar explain the punishment of hell in this manner.
