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God created seven heavens in layers with no disparity; each has its affair and inhabitants, and gates that were opened to the Prophet on the Night of the Ascent, gate after gate, up to the Lote Tree of the Utmost Boundary ¹ ².

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Mentioned in: Qur'an 67:3

People and things also explored

Dreams (ahlam)· The Higher Assembly· The Creation and Nature of Angels· Sihr (sorcery)· Adam's disobedience and Iblis· The Incident of the Slander (Hadith al-Ifk)· In the Courts of the Hadith Qudsi (television programme)· Liqa' al-Iman, Meeting of Faith (television programme)

Sources

Tafsir Ibn Kathir
Sahih al-Bukhari

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islam.museum contributors. “The seven heavens”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/concept/al-samawat-al-sab/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-09.

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Dreams (ahlam)

What the sleeper sees in sleep. The hadith collections divide it into the true dream (ru'ya), which is from God and a glad tidings for the believer; the bad dream (hulm), which is from Satan; and the soul's idle talk (hadith nafs), which is not acted on.