concept

Ākhirah

Beliefs & concepts

The named afterlife and last things in Islamic speech. Not eschatology as the study-word alone, and not paradise or hell as places.

Also known as Akhirah · Akhirat

Islam

  • Ākhirah appears in Islam.

    The Qur’an continually names al-ākhira — the last abode — against the nearer life. Islamic afterlife doctrine-speech in that revelation, not paradise or hell as the garden/fire seats alone and not eschatology as a study-word dump.

    from M.A.S. Abdel Haleem (translation) · The Qur’an, 2004 (this translation); Arabic text 7th century CE

    appears in · sourced · documented

sources

  • The Qur’an · M.A.S. Abdel Haleem (translation)

    M.A.S. Abdel Haleem, The Qur’an (Oxford).