Then, they order the Earth to swallow and crush the dead inside its womb, saying: "Seize him and take revenge, because he has stolen Allh's wealth and worshipped others than Him". [229] ("We have appointed only stern angels as wardens of the Fire." This place may be described as a kind of benevolent purgatory with privation but without . When the Quran describes the regret the inmates express for the deeds that put them in hell, it is "for the consequences" of the deeds "rather than for the actual commission of them". "It may be said that the only sin that all theologians have regarded as definitely unpardonable and assuredly leading to hell, is disbelief, either in the form of kufr, the stubborn refusal to believe, or shirk, the worship of something other than the one God in other words idolatry. A garden of grapes would also be there. They will say, If only we had listened and reasoned, we would not be among the residents of the Saeer! And so they will confess their sins. [87] Based on hadiths, the sinners are thought to carry signs in accordance with their sins. Suffering of hell came from failure to be enlightened by the teachings of the Isma'ili Imam, but such suffering does not require resurrection. Jaheem is the fifth level of Hell and another name for Jahannam. Thus We punish every disbeliever." 2008. [186] Islamic Modernists, according to Smith and Haddad, express a "kind of embarrassment with the elaborate traditional detail concerning life in the grave and in the abodes of recompense, called into question by modern rationalists". The burning fire for renegades. , Surely those who reject Our signs, We will cast them into the Fire. The Arabic word, jahannam, means "a dark storm" or "a stern expression." Both exemplify the seriousness of this punishment. [Note 17] Both Muslims emphasized the Quranic story (Q.4:56)[56] of how the skin of the condemned in hell will be continuously replaced with fresh skin once it is burned off so that the pain will always be fresh. In both Quranic verses and hadiths, "the Fire" is "a gruesome place of punishment that is always contrasted with Jannah, "the Garden" (paradise). The afterlife experiences are described as physical, psychic and spiritual. He said this sentence with a certain degree of excitement "[214], Some of the Quranic parables describing the sufferings in hell resemble those of the Christian New Testament.[216]. [239] Here, Malak al-Mawt (the Angel of Death) and a number of sixty angels seize the soul of the dead and begin torturing him with fire and iron hooks. "For the debates on the eternality of hell, see": e.g. Haawiyah means an immeasurably deep space, and this is the name Allah has used to describe the last level of Jahannam or the last gate of Hell. "The tendency has been to suggest that even grave sinners may hope for Gods mercy, as long as they have professed belief and are Muslims", based on (two types of) Quranic verses: "Indeed, Allah does not forgive associating others with Him in worship but forgives anything else of whoever He wills " (Q.4:48). A woman with dark cheeks stood up in the midst of the women and said, Why is that, O Messenger of Allah? He said, Because you complain too much and are ungrateful to your husbands. Then they started to give their jewelry in charity, throwing their earrings and rings into Bilals cloak. (Narrated by Muslim, 885). Jannah retorted, said, 'What is with me? Names of 7 Gates to Jahannam (Hell Fire) 1. Still lower, hired mourners and professional women singers hang head downwards and howl with pain as devils cut their tongues with burning shears. These are eight levels of Jannah. The tolerance of the Mumin would be of the same level, which. the reports of the two most esteemed Sunni hadith collections: al-Bukhaari and Muslim): Associating others with Allah (shirk or idolatry); witchcraft; killing a soul whom Allah has forbidden us to kill, except in cases dictated by Islamic law; consuming orphans wealth; consuming riba (usury); fleeing from the battlefield; and slandering chaste, innocent women.[88][89][90][91], According to a series of hadith, Muhammad claims the majority of the inhabitants of hell will be women, due to an inclination for gossip, conjecture, ungratefulness of kind treatment from their spouses and idle chatting. Jannah has multiple levels, in which the dead reside and commune with prophets and angels. [9], The importance of Hell in Islamic doctrine is that it is an essential element of the Day of Judgment, which is one of the six articles of faith (belief in God, angels, books, prophets, the Day of Resurrection and providence) "by which the Muslim faith is traditionally defined. [188][186], The beliefs of Pakistani modernist Muhammad Iqbal (died 1938), were similar to the Sufi "spiritual and internalized interpretations of hell" of ibn Arab, and Rumi, seeing paradise and hell "primarily as metaphors for inner psychic" developments. A date would maintain the size of that of a big pitcher. These depictions of Iblis as lord of hell simultaneously chained at its very bottom influenced Dante's representation of Lucifer[224] and gave rise to the Christian depiction of hell as the seat of the devil. These rooms would shine for the residents living in Jannah just as the sun shines for the people residing in Duniya. [84], Hadiths introduce punishments, reasons and revelations not mentioned in the Quran. It will be said, Seize and shackle them then burn them in Jaheem, then tie them up with chains seventy arms long. Adulterers are punished in a cone-shaped furnace and their shrieks are drowned by the curses of their fellow damned at the stench of their putrid flesh. Al-Firdaus. - Dr Zakir Naik", "The Fate of Non-Muslims: Perspectives on Salvation Outside of Islam", "Is there really such thing as a "kuffar", or "non-believer" in our world today? ", Umar Sulaymn al-Ashqar, al-Yawm al-khir, iii, 83-4. As per Islam, Jahannam means the place of punishment for unbelievers and other evildoers in the afterlife. (Faraid-ul-Fawaid) The first level: Its name is Jahannam, which is the least severe in torment. Jahanam.a deeper level where the idol-worshippers are to be sent on the Day of Judgement. . In the next mansion unfaithful wives hang by their breasts, their hands tied to their necks. [12], Some prominent people mentioned in hadith and the Quran as suffering in hell or destined to suffer there are: Fir'awn (viz., the pharaoh of The Exodus, mentioned in Surah Yunus, specifically Q:10:90-92), the wives of Nuh (aka Noah) and Lut (aka Lot mentioned in Surah At-Tahrim, specifically Q:66-10), and Abu Lahab and his wife (who were contemporaries and enemies of Muhammad and mentioned in Surah Al-Masadd, specifically Q:111). The Judeo-Arabic legend in question explains that the dead is set free from the painful perogatory after twenty-four years. (Q.41:28), This page was last edited on 28 February 2023, at 03:30. [129][130][131], In addition to having levels, an important feature of Judgement Day is that hell is a huge pit over which the bridge of As-Sirt crosses,[29] and from which sinners fall making their arrival in hell (see "Eschatological manuals" above) Christian Lange writes "it made sense to picture [hell] as a vast subterranean funnel, spanned by the Bridge, which the resurrected pass on their way to paradise,[132] with a brim (shafr) and concentric circles leading down into a central pit at the bottom (qar). But if I worship You for Your Own sake, grudge me not Your everlasting Beauty". "[85] Several hadith describes a part of hell that is extremely cold rather than hot, known as Zamhareer. They have not [yet] entered it, but they long intensely. Allah is the Just. "Hell and Hellfire. [26] It is also in hadith (and not the Quran) that As-Sirat, the bridge over hell that all resurrected souls must cross, is mentioned. Factors involved in who will be consigned to hell are: "Ultimately" the view of the Ash'arite school prevailed in "classical Islamic theology": God was free to judge as he chose, but on the other hand all believers can feel assured of salvation. (Q.32:14), "the Fire: therein will be for them the Eternal Home: a (fit) requital, for that they were wont to reject Our Signs." Rasulullah (sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam) said, "Jannah and Jahannam argued. These are faithless guardians, devoured now by serpents even as they once devoured the inheritances committed to their trust. In Paradise and Hell-fire in Imam al Qurtubi, Qurtubi writes, "On the Day of Judgment, hell will be brought with seventy thousand reins. Mumin would be able to have food and fruits continuously until 40 years. (Q.32.32. But distance from God is also only illusory, because everything other than God is an illusion, since "everything is a form of the degrees of the Divine Existence". Is it not true that a woman can neither pray nor fast during her menses? The women said, Yes. He said, This is the deficiency in her religious commitment. (Narrated by al-Bukhaari, 304), It was narrated that Jabir ibn Abd-Allah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: I attended Eid prayers with the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him). [233] Muslims Mouhanad Khorchide and Faheem Younus write that since the Quran states that God has "prescribed to himself mercy",[233] and " for him whose scales (of good deeds) are light. It has seven levels (each one more severe than the one above it), [24] (the Quran specifically refers to "seven gates"); [25] [26] [27] [28] but it is also said to be a huge pit over which the bridge of As-Sirt crosses and the resurrected walk; [29] to have mountains, rivers, valleys and "even oceans" filled with disgusting fluids; [30] and also Al-Sa'eer Blazing flame which is kindled and ignited. Eschatology and Concepts of the Hereafter in Islam 1 (2017): 2. p. 373, Bukhr, a, k. al-riqq 52; Muslim, a, k. al-mn 299; quoted in |Lange, "Introducing Hell in Islamic Studies", 2016]]: p.12. [124] For example, some describe hell as in the lowest earth, while one scholar (Al-Majlis) describes hell as "surrounding" the earth. 7) containing a copy of the anonymous Khabar al-Mi'rj attributed to Ibn Abbas. In Surah Tawbah, Allah SWT said that He assured His believers that they would find a place in the Gardens of Adan. Most of them have become part of the Islamic . Only the weak and disregarded among people will enter me.'. [citation needed], According to a major Shia Islam website, al-Islam.org, Hellfire is the eternal destination of unbelievers,[160] although another essay on the site states that there is a set of unbelievers known as Jahil-e-Qasir (lit. These wretches, the Keeper enlightens Mahomet, were tyrants. Allah Ta'ala then said to Jannah, 'You are My mercy which I show to . What are the 7 levels of jahannam? Then he said, Give in charity, for you are the majority of the fuel of Hell. Two black angels named Nkir and Nakr (identified with Munkar and Nakir in Islamic eschatology) strike the dead with a whip of fire and take him to the lowest level of Jahannam. That all human beings "are responsible" for their actions in this world, and all (even Muslims) face a "real possibility" of going to hell, (Q.19:71); God's freedom to send to Paradise or Hell whoever he chooses. "[104], Al-Bukhari in book 72:834 added to the list of dwellers in Jahannam: "The people who will receive the severest punishment from Allah will be the picture makers". hadiths, were compiled into special eschatological handbooks by authors such as: Here is another tradition of layers quoted by A. F. Klein: According to the first part of verse Q.65:12, It is Allah Who has created seven heavens and of the earth the like thereof (i.e. Whatever characteristic "the Garden offered, the Fire usually offered the opposite conditions. [5] Both Jannah and Jahannam are believed to have several levels, in both cases, the higher the level, the more desirable[6]: 131-133 -- in Jannah the higher the prestige and pleasure, in Jahannam the less the suffering. [243], Pre-Islamic: Tanakh, New Testament and Babylonical Talmud, "One should note there was a near consensus among Muslim theologians of the later periods that punishment for Muslim grave sinners would only be temporary; eventually after a purgatory sojourn in hell's top layer they would be admitted into paradise. Inmates of hell will be thirsty and hungry "constantly". For the former, he explained that no human except the Prophet is protected from sins, and also he said that individual actions were to be judged in line with Qur'an and Sunnah only. Heaven in the Quran. [155] Two verses in the Quran (6:128[156] and 11:107)[157] emphasize that consignment to hell is horrible and eternal but include the caveat "except as God (or your Lord) wills it", which some scholars considered an exemption from the eternity of hell. Jannah," also known as paradise or garden in Islam, is described as a permanent afterlife of serenity and happiness where the faithful and pious are rewarded in the Quran. Fatwa No: 84270. For the Arabic text summarized here, and a Spanish translation of it, see Asin Palacios 1984:432-37- Asin's source is a Leiden manuscript. However, they will become fully apparent and represented only in the Hereafter ". [49], Hadith describe types of sinners populating hell. Not at all! early 3rd/9th c.). However, if the number of men and women are approximately equal, both these Hadith could not be true at the same time. The torment inflicted in each level is severer than the torment inflicted in the level above it. The common belief among Muslims holds that Jahannam coexists with the temporal world, just as Jannah (the Islamic paradise), does,[20] (rather than being created after Judgment Day). [51], There are at least a couple of indications that physical rather than "spiritual or psychological" punishment predominates in jahannam according to scholars Smith and Haddad. [122] Government authorities are also threatened with hell, but often in "oblique ways". The torments of Hell wrong-doers endure are actually their conception of their distance from God, created by their sinful indulgence in their earthly desires and the illusion of things other than God as existent. [189] Egyptian modernist Muhammad Abduh, thought it was sufficient to believe in the existence of an afterlife with rewards and punishment to be a true believer, even if you ignored "clear" (hir) hadith about hell. [74], There are "scores" of hadith or "short narratives traced back to the Prophet or his Companions" from "the third/ninth century onwards", that "greatly elaborate" on the Quranic image of hell. Edited: February 3, 2022 . In Islam, al-A'raf ( Arabic: ) 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. In a final quote alluding to Isaiah 58.8, the narrative states that "nothing will help Man on the last day except good and loving actions, deeds of giving charity to widows, orphans, the poor and the unfortunate."[239]. Sahih Muslim 885b", "Sahih Muslim 2834a - The Book of Paradise, its Description, its Bounties and its Inhabitants - Sunnah.com - Sayings and Teachings of Prophet Muhammad ( )", "170526: Commentary on the hadeeth, "No one who has an atom's weight of faith in his heart will enter Hell", Mughal Gardens: Sources, Places, Representations, and Prospects, "The torture of the grave Islam and the afterlife", "Death of the People of Hell (From Fatawa al-Imam an-Nawawi)", "Criteria To Enter The Lowest Level Of The Lowest Hell", "A Philosophical Explanation of the Doctrine of Hell", "A Philosophical Concept of the Doctrine of Hell", "Why Allah created Hell. According to Christian Lange, "the majority" of theologians agreed that Hell like Paradise "was eternal". A1 - Gauvain, R. To serve Mumin, eighty thousand (80,000) young boys would roam around them like the gorgeous scattered pearls. Graphic illustrations of the various punishments are found in the famous miniatures of Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale Suppl. One collection[42] of descriptions of hell found in the Quran include "rather specific indications of the tortures of the Fire": flames that crackle and roar;[43] fierce, boiling waters,[44] scorching wind, and black smoke,[45] roaring and boiling as if it would burst with rage. A Judeo-Arabic version of a popular narrative known as The Story of the Skull (whose earliest version is attributed to Ka'ab al-Ahbar) offers a detailed picture of the concept of Jahannam. It is reserved for those who believed in Allah and His Messenger [sallallahu 'alayhi wa salaam], but who ignored His commands. Salafi scholar Umar Sulaymn al-Ashqar (d. 2012), affirms the arguments of al-Qurub, that women have a attachment to the here and now, inability to control their passions; but allows that despite this, many women are good and pious and will go to Paradise, and some are even superior to many men in piety. A cautious sensible man could be led astray by some of you. The women asked, O Messenger of Allah, what is deficient in our intelligence and religious commitment? He said, Is not the testimony of two women equal to the testimony of one man? They said, Yes. He said, This is the deficiency in her intelligence. I have not seen anyone more deficient in intelligence and religious commitment than you. 2022 The Islamic Information - Duplication not allowed. The Christian Bible itself makes no mention of hell being the home of the devil. (Q.4:48); What sins are considered grave enough to merit damnation ("There is no fixed canon of mortal sins in Islamic theology"); "Surely those who believe, and those who are Jews, and the Christians, and the Sabians, whoever believes in Allah and the Last day and does good, they shall have their reward from their Lord, and there is no fear for them, nor shall they grieve" (Q.2:62; cf. [141][Note 10], This left the issue of how/whether to punish sinful Muslims (to "ensure moral and religious discipline" and responsibility for individual actions). [7] Jannah is . One scene is where the disbelievers are taken to Jahannam and the other scene is where the believers are taken to Jannah. Jannatul Mava (Garden of Refuge)5. Death will never come to you; you will be alive forever. Saqar The intensity of its heat. "Whoever commits evil or wrongs themselves then seeks Allahs forgiveness will certainly find Allah All-Forgiving, Most Merciful" (Q.4:110); "So whoever does an atoms weight of good will see it" (Q.99:7-8) (and would be recompensed). They used to deny and reject the Day of Reward. People who will be thrown through this gate are the ones who; It will be said, Seize and shackle them then burn them in Jaheem, then tie them up with chains seventy arms long. [64] 6. In J. Neusner and B. Chilton (eds. SN - 9780710313560 [citation needed], Many ideas attributed Ibn Arabi have been rejected by Wahhabis. [123], There are many traditions on the location of paradise and hell, but not all of them "are easily pictured or indeed mutually reconcilable". Come with me on this islamic journey as we strengthen our relationship with Allah :) The Prophet () said, "Convey (my teachings) to the people even if it were a single (Sahih al-Bukhari 5198: Book 67, Hadith 132. Lower down usurers stagger about, weighed down by the reptiles in their bellies. [77], According to one hadith, hell will be vastly more populous than Paradise. Jahannam is the first and the lightest level of Hell. [161][Note 15] ", "Is that a Muslim can believe in predestination, if so why judge Muslims? May Allh grant us Jannah and protect us from Jahannam's extreme temperatures and its many other punishments. He started with the prayer before the khutbah (sermon), with no adhan (call to prayer) or iqamah (final call to prayer). In one version, hell seems to be a fantastic monster that God can summon at will; in another description, it is a crater of concentric circles on the underside of the world that all souls must cross in order to enter paradise by way of a bridge, narrow as a razor's edge. [14][Note 11][Note 12][15] It is enormous in size,[21][22] and located below Paradise. [41] Al-Laza and al-Saqar are switched in Lange's list, and there is no accompanying type of unbelievers for each level. [21] According to another source (Qurub) it takes "500 years" to get from one of its levels to another. [100] Since the number of men and women are approximately equal, Al-Qurtubi attempts to reconcile the conflicting hadith by suggesting that many of the women in Hell are there only temporarily and will eventually be brought reside in Paradise; thereafter the majority of the people of Paradise would be women. Diseases will never come to you; you will stay healthy forever. and Muslim scholars disagree over whether Hell itself will last for eternity (the major view),[17][18] or whether God's mercy will lead to it eventually being eliminated.[19]. (Mark 9:48) In the apocryphal book of 4 Ezra, written around the 2nd century, Gehinnom appears as a transcendental place of punishment. 3. Indeed, Allah is Almighty, All-Wise. An-Nisa 4:56. Fatwa Islamic Creed>Belief in the Hereafter>Doubts about belief in the Hereafter", "How the idea of hell drove me from Islam", "Heaven, Hell, and Non-Muslims in the Qur'an", "Will Good Righteous Non-Muslims like Mother Teresa go to Hell? [76], Some hadith describe the size of hell as enormous. "there are numerous passages in the Holy Quran showing that those in hell shall ultimately be taken out". ". It is a kindled fire burning hot. . This change comes to completion in the Babylonian Talmud, written around 500 CE. There are scorpions and snakes, ropes and chains, and irons. the place of hell before the Day of Resurrection. 5. It has seven gates, designated for each group of them. )[81], Malik in Hadith quotes Mohammed as saying that the "fire of the children of Adam [humans] which they kindle is a seventieth part of the fire of Jahannam. 1 The Descriptions of Jahannam #1 Introduction Shaykh Dr. Yasir Qadhi - 55:59. He preached to the people and reminded them. Saeer means Blaze in Arabic which is the sixth gate of hell. Jahannam Because of the depth of its pit 3. [225] As with Christian popular understanding of hell, Kitb al-Aama, a popular cultural work, describes hell as inhabited not only by the Zabaniyya (guarding angels), but also by devils (shayatin), dwelling in the fourth layer of hell and rising up from coffins to torture the sinners. [37][146][147], It is also a common belief among Muslims that hell, (like paradise), is not awaiting the destruction of earth and arrival of Judgement Day, but "coexists in time" with the temporal world, having already been created. 1. 2. [a] Simultaneously, jahannam is a term specifically for the upper most layer of hell, functioning as a purgatory for Muslim sinners. There are 300 places and in each, there are 300 rooms and in each room, there are 300 kinds of penalties. Declined to give the creations their rights. according to Q.74:31)[230] Einar Thomassen points out that Iblis is chained to the floor of hell as punishment, whereas Malik is head of the 19 angels who guard hell, indicating it is the angels who are in charge and not the devils. There is a fire mountain and the people who are against Allah will be laid down on this mountain on their faces and their hands will be tied to their necks and the necks will be tied to their feet and Zabaaniyah (angels of this level) will stand over them. Al-Humazah 104:4-9. [8] His hell has a structure with a specific place for each type of sinners. 4. 55:59. About Ibn Arabi, he fiercely defended the stance that Ibn Arabi was a Muslim of sound faith and whatever contradicted this was in fact not from him.[173]. "[108][109], At least one hadith indicates the importance of faith in avoiding hell, stating: " no one will enter Hell in whose heart is an atom's weight of faith.[Note 5], "Eschatological manuals" were written after the hadith, they compiled the hadith on hell,[75] and also developed descriptions of Jahannam "in more deliberate ways". The seven sins that doom a person to Hell", "What Are The 7 Major Sins That Doom A Person To Hell", "Sahih al-Bukhari 29 - Belief - Sunnah.com - Sayings and Teachings of Prophet Muhammad ( )", "2. Detailed description of Journey of the soul and the punishments in Hell (Naraka) are detailed in Garuda Purana. [117], In addition to those who engage in traditional sins of wine drinking, fornication, sodomy, suicide, atheism (dahriyya); hell is where those "who sleep during prayer (or speak of worldly matters during it),[118][119] or deny the doctrine of predestinarianism or assert absolute free-will (Qadarites), are punished. [105][106] Use of utensils made of precious metals could also land its users in Jahannam: "A person who drinks from a silver vessel brings the fire of Jahannam into his belly". They would have eructation, which digests the food and sweating would appear performed concerning waters digestion. Thus hellfire is actually a state of realization of one's failures as a human being", and not a supernatural subterranean realm. [22], Traditions often describe this in multiples of seven: hell has seventy thousand valleys, each with "seventy thousand ravines, inhabited by seventy thousand serpents and scorpions". [33], Most of how Muslims picture and think about Jahannam comes from the Quran, according to scholar Einar Thomassen, who found nearly 500 references to Jahannam/hell (using a variety of names) in the Quran. They will say, "Indeed, Allah has forbidden them both to the disbelievers. In Islam, Jannah will enjoy pleasure, while the unbelievers will suffer in Jahannam. [132] Ahmad ibn Hanbal argued the eternity of hell and paradise are proven by the Quran, although earths and heavens (sun, moon, stars) will perish. For they never had faith in Allah , nor encouraged the feeding of the poor. . The privilege of paradise Al Firdaus is the inhabitants will be able to see the face of . [160], On the other hand, for Mutazilis, the eternity of paradise and hell posed a major problem, since they regard God as the only eternal entity. Still further down liars and slanderers hang by their tongues from red-hot hooks lacerating their faces with nails of copper. He passed by the women and said, O women! Indeed, Hell (Jahannam) is their destined place, all together. [86], According to Bukhari, lips are cut by scissors. Sahih Muslim quotes Muhammad as saying that suicides would reside in Jahannam forever. There are 7 levels/gates/names of hell and the Holy Quran explains each level of Jahannam in detail so that we are warned. [14][Note 7]. Arabic texts written by Jews in Judeo-Arabic script (particularly those which are identified with the Isra'iliyyat genre in the study of hadith) also feature descriptions of Jahannam (or Jahannahum). At this level, there are big pieces of hot coal. There he is put in shackles sixty cubits long and into a leather sackcloth full of snakes and scorpions. ", "A Description of Hellfire (part 1 of 5): An Introduction", "Conditions and Stages of Jahannam (Hell)", "Quran > Ibn-Kathir Al-Qur'an Tafsir > Surah 111. 2. Jannatul Firdous (Garden of Paradise)3. Muslims also believe in Hell (Jahannam), which is where people go if they have. Here is the level of Heaven in Islam : 1. Jahanam - a deeper level where the idol-worshippers are to be sent on the Day of Judgement. Just as Hell is often depicted as the seat of the devil in Christian culture (though not in the bible itself),[Note 18] so too some Islamic scholars describe it that way. 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