It is said that the people in the hell will get used to the torture in the hell. I think this means diminution of their torture. What is your idea about it? I will be glad if you explain it by verses and hadiths.

Hell is the punishment for disbelief and it is eternal. A person who dies without believing in Allah in the world will stay in the place of torture eternally. A Qoranic verse tells us that their skins will be renewed when they are burnt thus they will be tortured eternally. When we think of the hellish torture the first thing that comes to mind is the material torture, the torture of fire. There are some other tortures like being in the darkness continuously and being deprived of the paradise eternally. Some clairvoyant walis (saints) informed that after a very long time that only Allah knows how long, the body would get used to being tortured with fire and would have a kind of familiarity with the fire.

In the Nur Collection, this subject matter is mentioned shortly in a letter; as a reference it is stated "it is understood from the indication of the hadith". Accordingly, although there is not a clear verse or hadith about that subject, it was informed by acting upon a hint of a hadith and clairvoyance. Muhyiddin Arabi also talks about this information a lot. He even goes further to say that "a kind of pleasure" will be taken instead of "a kind of familiarity".

No doubt, this familiarity and pleasure should be something like this: some animals accustom themselves to the environment they are living in which we are disgusted by or take pleasure from it. When the indefinable pleasures of the paradise, the talks by the Prophet (PBUH) there, the pleasure of seeing Allah that will make us forget all the other pleasures are considered, it will be understood that the tastes and pleasures taken by the people in the hell cannot be real tastes and pleasures. There is not an explanation in the Nur Collection about the above-mentioned hadith. However, there is a qudsi (divine) hadith Muhyiddin Arabi mentions in subjects similar to this: My mercy surpassed my wrath. That should be the hadith that the Master (Bediuzzaman) talks about.

We would like to state the following, too: The subjects like these form an issue neither in belief nor in worship. Therefore we think it unnecessary to discuss it with people who defend the opposite view.