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Al-barzakh

البرزخ

The barrier between this world and the next in which souls remain until the day they are raised; in it are the grave's bliss and its punishment as the texts report 1 2.

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CreedAfterlife and eschatology

Summary

The barrier between this world and the next where souls remain until they are raised — with the grave's bliss and punishment as the texts report.

In the texts

Note

In ar-Rahman it names the barrier between two seas — the word for every veiled partition.

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Subject of
Al-Dar al-Akhira (The Hereafter) lesson series
Mentioned in
Qur'an 23:100

People and things also explored

The Basin (al-Hawd) of the Prophet on the Day of Resurrection· The Reckoning· Ya'juj and Ma'juj· The Gates of Paradise· The questioning and punishment of the grave· Signs of the Hour· Bid'a (religious innovation)· The Dajjal

Sources

  1. al-Aqida al-Tahawiyya, Dar Ibn Hazm 1995
  2. Tafsir Ibn Kathir
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The Basin (al-Hawd) of the Prophet on the Day of Resurrection

Part of belief in the Last Day for Ahl al-Sunna: that the Prophet has a Basin to which the believers come on the Day of Resurrection, its water whiter than milk and sweeter than honey, its cups as many as the stars, and whoever drinks from it never thirsts again. Ibn Abi Asim gave it a chapter in Kitab al-Sunna, relating that Companions answered those who denied it, and stated that its reports yield knowledge.