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The sirat

الصراط

The sirat in the creed is the bridge stretched over Jahannam that people cross on the Day of Resurrection; the Sharh al-Tahawiyya describes it as finer than a sword's edge, slippery 1.

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Afterlife and eschatology

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The sirat in the creed is the bridge stretched over Jahannam which people cross after the standing; the Sharh describes it as finer than a sword's edge, slippery 1.

In the sources

The Sharh's sirat chapter describes a bridge over Jahannam crossed after the standing, 'like a sword's edge, slippery' 1.

From Sheikh Omar Abdelkafy's Tafsir lectures (episode 4)

The Sheikh cites a hadith that on the Sirat there are hooks like the thorn of the sa'dan, a thorn that grows in the Arabian Peninsula and is eaten by camels. He likens them to curved hooks like those a chandelier hangs from, and says each hook seizes the person whose sin it is assigned to 2 3.

People and things also explored

Islamic eschatology· Loss and gain in time (al-khusr)· Companions of the Fire and of Paradise· The most beautiful names of God (asma' Allah al-husna)· Selling self and wealth to God (bay al-nafs wal-mal ila Allah)· The Dajjal· The transience of the world (fana al-dunya)· Ghurbat al-Islam (the strangeness of Islam)

Sources

  1. Sharh al-Tahawiyya, Ibn Abi al-Izz al-Hanafi (Dar al-Hadith, Cairo)
  2. Assabile archive of Omar Abdelkafy's lectures (audio and video) , Tafsir Al Quran Al Qareem, episode 4, at 00:40:00 · Listen at the archive (opens the audio at this time)
  3. Assabile archive of Omar Abdelkafy's lectures (audio and video) , Tafsir Al Quran Al Qareem, episode 4, at 00:40:30 · Listen at the archive (opens the audio at this time)
  • al-Aqida al-Tahawiyya, Dar Ibn Hazm 1995
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Islamic eschatology

Islamic eschatology is the part of the creed concerned with death, the signs of the Hour, resurrection, reckoning and recompense; the Tahawiyya and its Sharh devote a chapter to belief in the signs of the Hour, noting that scholars devoted whole works to its hadiths.