One of my friends is hypnotised and black magic was maybe cast on him. His parents along with the entire society are after him and forcing him to live life as a slave. He has no way out and he might end up doing crimes. Is suicide permissible as a last resort as he has no means to live and noone is helping him.He's been kidnapped by a gang many times. Need Quran and hadith reference's

God is Almighty and knows what is going to happen in the future. I watched this video by Shabir Ally: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRWfDUoYsFQ and it started confusing me. We can never truly know God's intentions or whether Hell is eternal or not, but I'm starting to think it isn't. I think it just seemed more logical to me. I read these questions and answers: https://islam.stackexchange.com/questions/57522/is-there-any-sect-in-islam-that-dont-believe-hell-is-eternal https://islam.stackexchange.com/questions/31276/are-there-any-islamic-schools-of-thought-that-reject-the-literal-hell They talk about ibn Arabi and I read there was someone else who had a view that it wasn't eternal too. I've read somewhere that people will go to Hell eternally, because if they could live eternally they would sin eternally but then that leads to a question on the attributes of God because how is God _just_ if someone is doomed to eternal torture. God could have not created them in the first place or just created another reality where he didn't have to suffer eternally. Yes, if God just sent whoever to Hell and Heaven straight away people would question so this is why life is a trial, but sent to eternal hell? Then I watched a video of where it says if God knows everything where is the test, but the answer still wasn't satisfying. Hell is supposed to cleanse us but eternal Hell is torture not cleansing. If sins on this Earth are finite then infinite punishment/torture can't be justified and you can't reconcile that idea with the idea that it's meant to cleanse us. God is omniscient and predestines us so how is eternal Hell justified? Edit: Just found another link which talks about the subject but still doesnt answer it: https://islam.stackexchange.com/questions/7161/how-can-god-create-without-determining-the-outcome

I'm having a hard time tracking down information about how to classify torturing someone (beating, sterile needles under fingernails, waterboarding, starvation, sensory overload, sleep deprivation, that kind of physical torture) in terms of criminal law. I could see it as being a simple matter of qisas, but I'm not sure whether that's the case and how qisas is applied in matter where there is no permanent damage. **Question:** What crime is torture classed as, and what is the punishment for it?

Different states in the world often use torture both physical and psychological for interrogation, suppressing political opponents etc. What does Islam say about use of torture by state actors? Would it be allowed for an Islamic state to use torture as a method for interrogation? And what does the Quran say about it?