May Allh grant us Jannah and protect us from Jahannam's extreme temperatures and its many other punishments. And also the issue of whether People of the Book, are a variety of believer or unbelievers destined for hell. that God literally "creates beings to fill hell with", "If We had so willed, We could have given every soul its guidance, but now My Word is realized'I shall fill Hell with jinn and men together.'" It has seven gates, designated for each group of them. [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. According to one common tradition the layers of hell are: A fire for sinners among the Muslims. Locating Hell in Islamic Traditions. This combines in Jahannam two concepts: an eternal hell (for unbelievers), and a place (an "outer level" of hell was sometimes called al-barrniyya),[151][152] unbelievers[51] (the literal translation of Muslim is one who submits to God). 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. 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. 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. A person once inquired to Prophet Muhammad (PBUH); will that food be enough for my acquaintances and me? Saeer means Blaze in Arabic which is the sixth gate of hell. Whereas the word "abad" used in the Quran has been translated as "eternity", it should be translated as "a long time", and the actual purpose of suffering in hell should not be thought of as punishment of sinners, but the purging of "the evil effects of their deeds done in this life" for the sinners "spiritual advancement". Muslims believe in the concept of Paradise (Jannah), which is where people go if they have lived a good life. For example, Ahmad ibn Idris debated in detail with the then-Wahhabi Nasir al Kubaybi about sins committed by him and his students, and deviations that are said to have been propagated by Ibn Arabi. However, if the number of men and women are approximately equal, both these Hadith could not be true at the same time. Islamicity notes "the animalistic nature" of "The Fire" in Quranic verse 25:12: "When the Hellfire sees them from a distant place, they will hear its fury and roaring". [101] [Note 4]. In Islam, Jannah will enjoy pleasure, while the unbelievers will suffer in Jahannam. Sinful Muslims will be inflicted torment there. [229] ("We have appointed only stern angels as wardens of the Fire." [165] There will be four canals in every Jannah; There will also be three fountains in Jannah: 1. Underlying these statistics is a conundrum that continues to tug at the conscience of some Christians, who find it difficult to reconcile the existence of a just, loving God with a doctrine that dooms billions of people to eternal punishment. 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 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. They used to deny and reject the Day of Reward. There are scorpions and snakes, ropes and chains, and irons. Unhappy are you who are laughing now: for you will be crying in sorrow. 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. One scene is where the disbelievers are taken to Jahannam and the other scene is where the believers are taken to Jannah. [122] Government authorities are also threatened with hell, but often in "oblique ways". These are eight levels of Jannah. In both Quranic verses and hadiths, "the Fire" is "a gruesome place of punishment that is always contrasted with Jannah, "the Garden" (paradise). In the gospels, Jesus talks about "Gehenna" (Greek rendering) as a place "where the worm never dies and the fire is never quenched". At the other end of the theological "spectrum" were fearful "renunciants" such as al-Hasan al-Basri. ", Sarrj, Luma (trans Gramlich), 529; quoted in Christian Lange p. 9, Abdh, Rislat al-tawd, 178, quoted in Christian Lange, p.20. 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 The Quran also mentions wrongdoers having "degrees (or ranks) according to their deeds" which some scholars believe refers to the seven gates. [128] This idea derives from the concept of "seven earths", each beneath the surface of the known world, serving as a sort of underworld, with hell at its bottom. There are 300 places and in each, there are 300 rooms and in each room, there are 300 kinds of penalties. Then it will be said, 'O people of Paradise! [61][62][63], Hell's resemblance to a prison is strong. This place may be described as a kind of benevolent purgatory with privation but without . The tolerance of the Mumin would be of the same level, which. [citation needed] In modern times Shia cleric Sayyid Mujtaba Musavi Lari argues against the idea that hell will not last for eternity. 1938. According to Christian Lange, "the majority" of theologians agreed that Hell like Paradise "was eternal". It is reserved for those who believed in Allah and His Messenger [sallallahu 'alayhi wa salaam], but who ignored His commands. [49], The common belief among Muslims (as indicated above) is that duration in hell is temporary for Muslims but not for others. 2. The names of the 7 gates of Jahannam. 1 The Descriptions of Jahannam #1 Introduction Shaykh Dr. Yasir Qadhi - 55:59. Other people populating hell mentioned in hadith include, but are not limited to, the mighty, the proud and the haughty. One solution was to reserve for Muslims the highest level of hell with the most lenient punishments; but a "more common" solution one was to make the stay of Muslims in hell temporary.[135]. verse 7:50 states "The companions of the Fire will call to the Companions of the Garden: Pour down to us water or anything that God doth provide". ", "So let them laugh a little and [then] weep much as recompense for what they used to earn. 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. 2008. 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. Jannatul Mava is in the lowest, Jannat-ul-Adan is the middle & Jannat-ul- Firdous is on the highest. Lower down usurers stagger about, weighed down by the reptiles in their bellies. Whatever characteristic "the Garden offered, the Fire usually offered the opposite conditions. There are eight doors of Jannah. [41] Then he went over to the women and preached to them and reminded them. It has seven doors, each door shall have a stipulated share of them" (Surah Hijr, Verse: 43/44) 2) "Those who disbelieved will be driven to . For they never had faith in Allah , nor encouraged the feeding of the poor. Al-Haqqah 69:30-34. [231][51], In modern times some Christians and Christian denominations (such as Universalism) have rejected the concept of hell as a place of suffering and torment for sinners on the grounds that it is incompatible with a loving God. [21] According to another source (Qurub) it takes "500 years" to get from one of its levels to another. In two places in the Quran, almost identical verses seem to indicate they are saved: but there "exists a strong exegetical tradition" that claims these verses were abrogated by a later verse indicating a much less pleasant hereafter: Quranic verses suggest that Judgement Day, Pardise and Hell are not "conceived to lie" off in some indefinite future, but "immediately ahead; it is now, or almost there already". It does not let anyone live or die, scorching the skin. [183][185] This is because in the afterlife, Muslims and Non-Muslims, even those "who never did any good deeds", will eventually be taken out of hell. [182], According to the Ahmadiyya movement (by way of their official website), the places of Paradise and Hell are actually images of man's own spiritual life during lifetime, hell is a manifestation of his sins. According to Hadith collector Muwatta Imam Malik (Imam Malik), Muhammad said: "Truly a man utters words to which he attaches no importance, and by them he falls into the fire of Jahannam. Answer. Inmates have chains around their necks (Q.13.5, 34:33, 36:8, 78:4, etc. [39][50], Among those specifically mentioned in the Quran as being punished in hell are "most typically", (according to Thomassen), unbelievers (al-kafirun). Jannatul Khuld (Garden of Eternity), document.getElementById("ak_js_1").setAttribute("value",(new Date()).getTime()), document.getElementById("ak_js_2").setAttribute("value",(new Date()).getTime()). The fire will start eating from the feet and blaze until it reaches the heart. It is a core belief in Islam that life on earth is but a test and that we will be returning to Allah where he will decide our eternal home Jannah (paradise) or Jahanam (hellfire). 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. [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. [31] Based on verse 67:7 and verse 50:30, Jahannam inhales and has "breaths". Which sahabi is known as Khadim-e-Rasool? Al Bukhari and Sahi say: "Jannah has one hundred levels and between each level is remoteness like the remoteness between the earth and the sky" It is clear that Jannah has one hundred levels but the narrations about its levels may . "Roads to Paradise." [49], Hadith describe types of sinners populating hell. Jahannam said, 'I have been preferred by being given the arrogant and the tyrants.'. Al-Islam also states: "According to the Qur`an and ahadith, heaven and hell exist at present. The first mansion is an ocean of fire comprising seventy lesser seas, and on the shore of each sea stands a city of fire. It is so deep that if a stone were thrown into it, it would fall for 70 years before reaching the bottom (according to one hadith). And what will make you know what Al Haawiyah is? Did not have the correct belief in Allah. The plants of these gardens wont have any throne. In addition to fire (Q.2:174) there are three different unique sources of food in hell: Psychological torments are humiliation (Q.3:178), and listening to "sighs and sobs". Further, shameless women hang by the hair that they had exposed to the gaze of man. These are faithless guardians, devoured now by serpents even as they once devoured the inheritances committed to their trust. ", Umar Sulaymn al-Ashqar, al-Yawm al-khir, iii, 83-4. These are directly related to the wrongdoer's earthly transgressions. 3 The Descriptions of Jahannam #2 The Names of Jahannam Shaykh Dr. Yasir Qadhi - 50:44. Sources Miguel Asin Palacios and Patrick Hughes, Thomas Patrick Hughes describe these levels as: A large number of hadith about Muhammad's tour of hell during the mirj, describe the various sinners and their torments. Al-Hatamah Lastly, in the fourteenth and lowest mansion of the first storey, are being crucified on burning pillars those who failed to keep the rule of prayer; as the flames devour them, their flesh is seen gradually to peel off their bones. [237] However, according to at least one sourceChristian evangelist Phil Parshall, who spent several decades observing and writing about Muslims in Asiathis has not been the common view of Muslims; Parshall writes that he "never met a Muslim who has attempted to undercut the bluntness and severity of their doctrine of hell."[238]. Death will never come to you; you will be alive forever. those who pretend to submit to God while actually not believing) (Q.4:140), the self-content (those who do not expect to meet Us [God], being pleased and content with this worldly life, and who are heedless of Our signs ") (Q.10:7-8, 17:18)[51] those who commit the eternal sin of shirk (Q.4:48,116), and those who do not believe in certain key doctrines of Islam: those who deny the divine origin of the Quran (Q.74:16-26), or the coming of Judgement Day (Q.25:11-14). Firdaus" also designates the highest level of heaven. Then he said, Give in charity, for you are the majority of the fuel of Hell. (Q.41:28), This page was last edited on 28 February 2023, at 03:30. Sinners populating hell Hadith include, but are not limited to, the mighty the. Wardens of the fuel of hell `` the majority '' of theologians agreed that will. The opposite conditions ] Based on verse 67:7 and verse 50:30, Jahannam and... 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