The Location of Paradise and Hellfire, and the Meaning of Sijjin and 'Iliyyin
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, which of the categories of scholars (may Allah have mercy on them) said that the Fire is at the bottom of the two shores, citing the saying of Allah the Exalted:[Al-Mutaffifin 83:7] and the hadith of Qaran ibn 'Azib: Please clarify and explain this.
Answer:
Yes, Paradise is in the highest 'Iliyyin, and its ceiling is the Throne of the Most Merciful. As for Hellfire, may Allah protect us from it, it is in the lowest depths, beneath the seventh earth, in Sijjin. This is what the evidence indicates.
Honorable Shaykh, which of the categories of scholars (may Allah have mercy on them) said that the Fire is at the bottom of the two shores, citing the saying of Allah the Exalted:
No! Indeed, the record of the wicked is in sijjeen.
كَلَّا إِنَّ كِتَابَ الْفُجَّارِ لَفِي سِجِّينٍHe says: Allah the Exalted says, "Write the record of My covenant in Sijjin in the lower earth."
فيقول الله تعالى اكتبوا كتاب عهدي في سجين في الأرض السفلىAnswer:
Yes, Paradise is in the highest 'Iliyyin, and its ceiling is the Throne of the Most Merciful. As for Hellfire, may Allah protect us from it, it is in the lowest depths, beneath the seventh earth, in Sijjin. This is what the evidence indicates.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 10من13/شرح لمعة الاعتقاد/عقيدة/من قوله والبعث بعد الموت حق/الشيخ صالح الفوزان/كبار العلماء — youtube.com (1:00:31)
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