The Fire
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the Fire · النار · al-Nār · Hell · a pit among the pits of the Fires · al-jaḥīm · misery · the abode of perdition · the lowest depth · الدرك الأسفل
in the texts
Risālah fī ʻilm al-akhlāq
The place of punishment named in the two scriptural adductions as the end of the diseased soul.
'As for him who was insolent and preferred the life of this world, the Fire shall be his refuge' — and at another time from the sages, by what they demonstrated of the great wretchedness of the souls of the wicked and the dissolute in the life to come, after their parting from bodies.
and when I hate a servant I occupy him with this world and set him to its work, so that he becomes one of the people of the Fire, and I bring him into the Fire in My wrath.
Kitāb al-Safīnah al-Nūḥīyah fī al-sakīnah al-rūḥīyah
The pits of the Fires, named as the alternative interim abode of spirits and as the state of misery that the reflecting soul fears.
and it has been transmitted that the spirits are in a garden among the gardens of Paradise, or in a pit among the pits of the Fires.
Then there is no escaping restoration and an abiding either in felicity or in misery.
And when you know this, there is no doubt that the intelligent man does not choose the state of dogs and the pig over the deeds of the angels brought near, nor choose the lowest depth of the Fire over the highest abode in the abode of permanence.
Bayān zaghl al-ʻilm wa-al-ṭalab
Hell, named as the place to which the scholar who learned in order to be called a scholar is dragged, on the authority of a report in Muslim's Ṣaḥīḥ.
and then the order is given for you, and you are dragged to the Fire, as Muslim transmitted in the Ṣaḥīḥ.
For he may set down a word that pleases him and by it plunge into the Fire without knowing;
Adab al-wazīr
Hellfire, named in the hadith as the dread that turns a man from appetite.
“Whoever longs for the Garden hastens to good works, and whoever dreads the Fire turns away from appetites.