سَأَلَ سَآئِلٌۢ بِعَذَابٍ وَاقِعٍ
FOR EVERY QUESTION THERE IS A PUNISHMENT.
The statement is true regardless of its obvious contradiction to what we are used to in everyday life.
To understand it you have to take into consideration the level where no questions are permitted and no questions are asked and remember the Name, the Ism, AL-GHANI.
By virtue of this Name, you feel no wants, no inquiries, no limitation, no following, and no needs. It is self-sufficiency to utmost.
If you remember this Name inherent in you, your Rabb, your Lord- Al Ghani will accept you and keep you in heaven.
However most of us are unable to do so and feel dependent, need or want something that compels us to ask, or question something so that we can have answers, which act as a reward to our question. Thus the basis of questioning stands opposed to the very Name inherent in you i.e. Al Ghani. As Al Sayl (questioner) is not an inherent name inside you, it never nor it can accept you, so where do you stand?
By asking, by questioning you stand far away from our Rabb, Al-Ghani. The farther you are the more you feel pain and punishment in after life.
This is the reason that to ask someone is an inherently difficult for soul and people with pious soul did not like to ask for anything.
If you persist in asking the soul makes its own name, al-sayl, eventually and soul itself stands opposite to Al Ghani. Thus soul makes its own Rabb, own Lord and when it’s time for soul to leave its body it has nowhere else to go except to its own created name. al-sayl and the doors of Al Ghani remains closed for it.
Hence the minimum punishment is that if you ask once, you will have to ask again.
One of the characteristic of believers is that they listen and obey.
indeed