7 Levels of Jahannam The names Hell has been given are: 1. [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). There are eight doors of Jannah. Their leaf size would be equal to the ears of an elephant. [84], Hadiths introduce punishments, reasons and revelations not mentioned in the Quran. There are scorpions and snakes, ropes and chains, and irons. Gwynne, Rosalind W. 2002. Allah Ta'ala will remove any ill-feeling, remorse, regret, and envy from the hearts of Jannatis so even though people of the lower level will meet people from the higher levels inshaa Allah, there will be no envy between them. 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. [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. ", Scholars differ on the number of references in the Quran. [160] Paris: Vrin. The tolerance of the Mumin would be of the same level, which. What the Quran Says About Science and Facts. Jannatul Mava is in the lowest, Jannat-ul-Adan is the middle & Jannat-ul- Firdous is on the highest. Thomassen writes that in Islamic thought there was "a certain amount of tension" between the two "distinct functions" of hell: to punish disbelievers/ non-Muslims and to punish anyone who committed serious sins[135]both of which could draw support from Quranic verses and hadith. Ibn Hisham, Translated by Guillaume, A. 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. Other manualssuch as texts by al-Ghazali and the 12th-century scholar Qadi Ayyad -- "dramatise life in the Fire", and present "new punishments, different types of sinners, and the appearance of a multitude of devils," to exhort the faithful to piety. [34][Note 2], An example of Quranic verses about hell is, Among the different terms and phrases mentioned above that refer to hell in the Quran, Al-nar (the fire) is used 125 times, jahannam 77 times, jaheem (blazing flames) 26 times,[39] (23 times by another count). [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. Jannatul Firdous (Garden of Paradise)3. [161][Note 15] In the second mansion beings with blubber lips writhe under the red-hot forks of demons, while serpents enter their mouths and eat their bodies from within. Then he said, Give in charity, for you are the majority of the fuel of Hell. 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". ", Unforgiveableness of unbelief. The concept of hell's annihilation is referred to as fan al-nr. Al-Hijr 15:43-44. [101] [Note 4]. Other traditions added flogging. For the latest updates, you can join our WhatsApp group or Telegram Channel. He believed Hell and Paradise are only the distance or closeness from God, respectively, in the mind of resurrectant. Furnace for the disbelievers. He passed by the women and said, O women! did not take literally the Quran's verses on Paradise and Hell as physical places where believers are rewarded with pleasure and sinners tortured with pain. (Sahih al-Bukhari 5198: Book 67, Hadith 132. These include people that lived during Mohammad's days, the Mushrikun (enemies of Mohammad who worshiped idols) (Q.10:24) and the "losers" (enemies of Mohammad who died in war against Mohammad) (Q.21:70), as well as broad categories of sinners: apostate Muslims (Q.3:86-87), "hypocritical Muslims" (Munafiq, i.e. Inmates have chains around their necks (Q.13.5, 34:33, 36:8, 78:4, etc. Other people populating hell mentioned in hadith include, but are not limited to, the mighty, the proud and the haughty. Jahannam Because of the depth of its pit 3. The Quran says: . [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). [49], Hadith describe types of sinners populating hell. At this level, there are big pieces of hot coal. [51] Their fluids will include boiling water (Q.6:70), melted brass, and/or be bitterly cold, "unclean, full of pus". 2. The plants of these gardens wont have any throne. Which sahabi is known as Khadim-e-Rasool? 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. The fire will start eating from the feet and blaze until it reaches the heart. [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. Inferno interim for the sinner among the Christians; Provisional destination for sinners among the Jewish; A bottomless abyss for hypocrites, like the Pharaoh and people who disbelieves after Isa's table or Muslims who are outwardly believers but inwardly infidels. People who did not believe in Allah (Tawheed) and rejected the Prophets will enter through this gate. [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. So away with the residents of the Saeer! Al-Mulk 67:10-11. These seem to have been strongly influenced by the Islamic environment in which they were composed, and may be considered as holding many of the same concepts as those today identified with Islamic eschatology. Jannat-al-Adan This is the 'eternal place'. There are many words in the Arabic language for both Heaven and Hell and those words also appear in the Quran and hadith. These rooms in Jannah are present in such a manner that each of the rooms would maintain 70,000 (seventy thousand) sheets of dinning. Within which, 70,000 (seventy thousand) rooms would be present. He (PBUH) replied it would be enough for you and even for your whole tribe. In J. Neusner and B. Chilton (eds. "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. [10][11] Its excruciating pain and horror described in the Qu'ran often parallels the pleasure and delights of paradise (Jannah). They will say, "Indeed, Allah has forbidden them both to the disbelievers. [75], While the Quran speaks of the seven gates of hell,[49] "relatively early" hadith attest that hell has seven levels. 3 The Descriptions of Jahannam #2 The Names of Jahannam Shaykh Dr. Yasir Qadhi - 50:44. chapter 1 p. 12, Last edited on 28 February 2023, at 03:30, Lut (aka Lot mentioned in Surah At-Tahrim, specifically Q:66-10), Thomassen, "Islamic Hell", Numen, 56, 2009, Lange, "Introducing Hell in Islamic Studies", 2016, "200252: Is there any mention in the Islamic texts of a minimum period that sinners among the people of Tawheed will spend in Hell? The faithful, according to the Quran, shall find peace in God's presence and in "gardens under which rivers flow. 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. 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. 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. These rooms would shine for the residents living in Jannah just as the sun shines for the people residing in Duniya. resembling the Christian Catholic idea of purgatory (for believers eventually destined for heaven after punishment for their sins). The seven levels of heaven are as follows: 1. Brill, 2016. [87] Based on hadiths, the sinners are thought to carry signs in accordance with their sins. The privilege of paradise Al Firdaus is the inhabitants will be able to see the face of . [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. ", Gnther, Sebastian, Todd Lawson, and Christian Mauder. [83], In book 87 Hadith 155, "Interpretation of Dreams" of Sahih al-Bukhari, Muhammad is reported to have talked of angels guarding hell, each with "a mace of iron", and describes Jahannam as a place, "built inside like a well and it had side posts like those of a well, and beside each post there was an angel carrying an iron mace. The burning fire for renegades. turc 190; see Seguy 1977. (In more recent times fan al-nr has been supported by Rashd Ri (d. 1936), zmirli Ismail Hakk (d.1946) Ysuf al-Qardw(d.2022). In contrast to jannah, the words Jahannam, an-Nr, jaheem, saqar, and other terms are used to refer to the concept of hell. According to Christian Lange, "the majority" of theologians agreed that Hell like Paradise "was eternal". [23] 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 to be able to walk (controlled by reins),[31] and ask questions,[32] much like a sentient being. (21)Chapter: To be ungrateful to one's husband. If I worship You for fear of Hell, burn me in Hell, and if I worship You in hope of Paradise, exclude me from Paradise. [7] Jannah is . 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. It is a kindled fire burning hot. . "Never shall they issue from the Fire." Al-Lahab . [77], According to one hadith, hell will be vastly more populous than Paradise. (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. Muammad b. Ysuf Afayyish (Ib, d. 1332/1917), etc. 5:69), " .whoever desires a religion other than Islam, it shall not be accepted from him, and in the hereafter he shall be one of the losers." There are 7 levels/gates/names of hell and the Holy Quran explains each level of Jahannam in detail so that we are warned. These are eight levels of Jannah. Many other prominent Sufis too had more conventional attitudes, such as al-Ghazali, who warned Muslims, "your coming unto it (hellfire) is certain, while your salvation therefrom is no more than conjecture. Al-Islam also states: "According to the Qur`an and ahadith, heaven and hell exist at present. Like Islam, Zoroastrianism, holds that on Judgement Day all resurrected souls will pass over a bridge over hell (As-Sirt in Islam, Chinvat Bridge in Zoroastrianism), and those destined for hell will find it too narrow and fall below into their new abode. 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()). 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). ", Narrated `Imran: The Prophet () said, "I looked at Paradise and saw that the majority of its residents were the poor; and I looked at the (Hell) Fire and saw that the majority of its residents were women." [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". There is a well of pain which is unique and unbearable. "Over the last 20 years, the number of Americans who believe in the fiery down under has dropped from 71 percent to 58 percent. It is a kindled fire burning hot. Al-Qariah101:8-11. Al-Laza and al-Saqar are switched in Lange's list, and there is no accompanying type of unbelievers for each level. [228], Notably, Iblis' temporary rule over Jahannam depends always on God's power and hell is still a form of punishment for Iblis himself. [102] Einar Thomassen writes that this almost certainly refers to those too proud and haughty to submit to God, i.e. Thomassen writes that "several types of concerns" weigh "against the idea of an eternal hell in Islamic thought": belief in the mercy of God; resistance to the idea that Muslimseven great sinnerswould "end up together with the disbelievers in the hereafter"; and resistance to the idea that "something other than God himself might have eternal existence". This change comes to completion in the Babylonian Talmud, written around 500 CE. 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] (Q.3:85). The Judeo-Arabic legend in question explains that the dead is set free from the painful perogatory after twenty-four years. In a Persian work, the entry to hell is located in a gorge called Wadi Jahannam (in present-day Afghanistan).[49]. Yes, they will enjoy it as everyone in Jannah enjoys it. fire will break the bones of these humans and blaze the heart and other organs inside the body. [158] which suggests to some that Jahannam will be destroyed some day,[159] Al-Sa'eer Blazing flame which is kindled and ignited. There is a well of pain which is unique and unbearable. There are seven levels, gates or names of hell. Graphic illustrations of the various punishments are found in the famous miniatures of Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale Suppl. [115], According to Leor Halevi, between the moment of death and the time of their burial ceremony, "the spirit of a deceased Muslim takes a quick journey to Heaven and Hell, where it beholds visions of the bliss and torture awaiting humanity at the end of days". [107] As could starving a cat to death: "A woman was tortured and was put in Hell because of a cat which she had kept locked till it died of hunger. This interpretation became "widespread" in Islam. Levels of Jahannam Jahannam is divided into seven levels that are situated below each other based on the gravity of the sinners. [236][235] The idea of annihilation of hell was already introduced earlier by traditionalistic scholars, such as Ibn Taimiyya. 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