﴿On it﴾ meaning the entirety of the Fire, by the indication of what comes from the keepers, ﴿nineteen﴾ meaning a single angel, for the rank of the believers, which is the highest, is one angel. And for the remaining six, there are eighteen, for each one has three, because one supports another, and they strengthen each other with a third. So, Allah knows best, they were three, or because disbelief can be in Allah, His Books, and His Messenger, blessings and peace be upon him. Thus, for every denial in each of its six ranks, there is an angel or a type of angels. And concerning the first, in their being individuals in their own right, most of the interpreters have said that they are harsh and severe. Each one of them is sufficient for all the people of the earth, just as a single angel is appointed to take all souls. It has come in the reports that their eyes are like the flashing lightning, and their fangs are like the tusks. The flame of the Fire comes out from their mouths, and the distance between their shoulders is a year’s journey. Mercy has been removed from them. One of them pushes seventy thousand and throws them wherever he wishes in Hell. Amr ibn Dinar said: Indeed, one of them pushes with a single push more than the tribes of Rabi'ah and Mudar. And it is said that this number is for compensating what is in man of the powers by which his constitution is organized, which are the five external senses: hearing, sight, smell, taste, and touch, and the five internal senses: the imaginative, the deceptive, the thinking, the preserving, and the remembering, and the two powers of desire and anger, and the seven natural powers: the holding, the digesting, the attracting, the pushing, the nourishing, the growing, and the generating. And it is said that this number was chosen because nine is the end of the units, and ten is the beginning of the tens. Thus, their total becomes a gathering of the most of the few and the least of the many, making it the most comprehensive of numbers. It indicates that their keepers are the most comprehensive of gatherings. It is narrated from Ibn Mas'ud, may Allah be pleased with him, that reciting the Basmala saves one from the keepers of the Fire, for it consists of nineteen letters, each letter corresponding to a king among them.