concept

Ṣirāṭ

Beliefs & concepts

The bridge-path of the afterlife crossing in Islamic eschatological speech. Not mīzān as the balance already filed in beliefs-5, and not bridge as a places landform alone.

Also known as Sirat · As-Sirat

Islam

  • Ṣirāṭ appears in Islam.

    The Qur’an repeatedly names the straight path (al-ṣirāṭ al-mustaqīm) as the way of guidance. Islamic path-speech in that revelation, not path as the English quality already walked and not the later eschatological bridge invent alone.

    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).