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  2. Limbo - Wikipedia

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    If heaven is a state of supernatural happiness and union with God, and Hell is understood as a state of torture and separation from God then, in this view, the Limbo of Infants, although technically part of hell (the outermost part, limbo meaning 'outer edge' or 'hem') is seen as a sort of intermediate state.

  3. Araf (Islam) - Wikipedia

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    Some hadith depict that rather than this place being a middle ground purgatory in between Heaven and Hell, it is actually just the top layer of Hell, the least severe layer. The word is literally translated as "the heights" in English. The realm is described as a high curtain between hell and paradise. [3]

  4. Barzakh - Wikipedia

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    Ibn Arabi considers this man to be a Barzakh, meaning a Perfect Human Being. Chittick explains that the Perfect Human acts as the Barzakh or "isthmus" between God and the world. [28] According to Ibn Arabi, [citation needed] Khalid was a prophet whose message never emerged. Before he died, he told his sons to open his tomb forty days after his ...

  5. First circle of hell - Wikipedia

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    Within Limbo is a great castle surrounded by seven walls; Dante passes through its seven gates to reach the verdant meadows where the first circle's souls dwell. [ 6 ] The souls in Limbo are not punished directly, but are condemned to "suffer harm through living in desire"; [ 4 ] their punishment is to be left desirous of salvation.

  6. Islamic eschatology - Wikipedia

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    "the heaven or hell of one's actions which envelopes a person"; and the Barzakh state of "purgatory" in Islam after death and before Resurrection; in Shia Islam, these three "types" of jannah (or Jahannam) are "all simply manifestations of the ultimate, eternal heaven and hell".

  7. Al-A'raf - Wikipedia

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    Al-Araf [2] [3] (Arabic: ٱلأعراف, al-ʾAʿrāf; meaning: The Heights) is the 7th chapter of the Qur'an, with 206 verses ().Regarding the timing and contextual background of the revelation (Asbāb al-nuzūl), it is a "Meccan surah", which means it was revealed before the Hijra.

  8. Duzakh - Wikipedia

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    Duzakh (in Persian دوزخ) is hell in the Persian mythology.. This word was dao‘aη úha- in Avestan and dušox in Middle Persian.. Hell, in Zorostrianism is described as a deep well, terrifying because it is dark, stinking, and extremely narrow.

  9. Malakut - Wikipedia

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    The Quran speaks of the malakūt al-samāwāt wa l-arḍ "kingdom of heaven and earth", where the heavenly kingdom represents the ultimate authority of God over the earth. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] This concept is attested by the writings of al-Ghazali (c. 1058–1111), but limited to epistemological categories of understanding metaphysical realities ...