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Neither set of verses mentions a bridge nor falling into hell, but Ṣirāṭ al-jahīm "was adopted into Islamic tradition to signify the span over jahannam, the top layer of the Fire". [Quran 37:21–27] In the hadith about "the bridge" or a bridge to hell or a bridge between heaven and hell, or over hell. [13]
According to scholars Jane I. Smith, Yvonne Y. Haddad, while there are Muslims of a "philosophical or mystical" bent who interpret descriptions of heaven and hell "metaphorically", "the vast majority of believers", understand verses of the Quran on Jannah (and hellfire) "to be real and specific, anticipating them" with joy or terror, [73 ...
Sad is the name of the eighteenth letter in the Arabic alphabet. [1] According to the traditional Islamic narrative, Saad was sent to Muhammad by Allah while he was coping with rejection from his tribe, the Quraysh. It recounts stories of previous prophets, describes the splendors of heaven, and warns of the monstrosities of hell.
In Islam, al-A'raf (Arabic: الأعراف) is a separator realm or borderland between Jannah (heaven) and Jahannam (hell), [2] inhabited by those who are evenly balanced in their sins and virtues, they are not entirely evil nor are they entirely good.
Several verses in the Quran mention the eternal nature of Hell or both Paradise and Hell, [Note 14] or that the damned will linger in hell for ages. [173] Two verses in the Quran (6:128 [ 174 ] and 11:107) [ 175 ] emphasize that consignment to hell is horrible and eternal — but include the caveat "except as God (or your Lord) wills it", which ...
The Epistle of Forgiveness: A Vision of Heaven and Hell (Volume One), Abū Al ʿAlāʾ Al Maʿarrī; Abu 'l-ʿAla al-Ma'arri's correspondence on vegetarianism, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1902, p. 289, by D. S. Margoliouth; 37 of al-Ma'arri's poems (in English), posted by Humanistictexts.org; The Luzumiyat
Illustration of Muḥammad on a ladder, from the sole copy of the Livre de l'eschiele Mahomet. The Book of Muḥammad's Ladder is a first-person account of the Islamic prophet Muḥammad's night journey and ascent to heaven (), translated into Latin (as Liber scalae Machometi) and Old French (as Livre de l'eschiele Mahomet) from traditional Arabic materials.
Qaf (Arabic: ق, the letter qāf), is the 50th chapter of the Qur'an with 45 verses . The name is taken from the single discrete Quranic " mysterious letter " qāf that opens the chapter. It is the beginning of the Hizb al-Mufassal , the seventh and the last portion ( manzil ).