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Jaḥīm (Arabic: جَحِيم) is one of the names of the Hell, which means intense fire. In the Qur'an, "jahim" has been used to refer to the Hell, and in one case, it is used to mean intense fire. In some hadiths, Jahim is said to be a level of the Hell. According to Qur'anic verses, inhabitants of Jahim include unbelievers, polytheists, and unjust people.

Meaning

"Jahim" literally means intense fire and heat[1]. It also refers to a place in which there is intense fire[2]. Thus, "Jahim" has been used to refer to the Hell. In Qur'anic uses, it usually means the Hell[3].

The Hell

"Jahim" is said to be one of the names of the Hell[4]. In some Qur'anic verses, "Jahim" has been used in contrast to the Heaven.[5] The word has been used twenty seven times in the Qur'an, in twenty six cases of which it refers to the Hell[6]. It is used for another meaning only in one case[7], where it refers to the fire that had been prepared by Nimrod to set Ibrahim (a) on fire.[8]

There is a hadith from Imam al-Baqir (a) in which he counts Jahim as a level of the Hell[9]. Ibn Abbas was quoted as saying that Jahim is the fire of the Hell[10].

Inhabitants of Jahim

According to Qur'anic verses, different groups of people are inhabitants of Jahim, including unbelievers and deniers of divine signs,[11] polytheists,[12] unjust people,[13] the wicked,[14] and transgressors.[15]

In some hadiths, enemies of Ahl al-Bayt (a) are also counted as inhabitants of Jahim[16].

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Notes

  1. ↑ Muṣṭafawī, al-Tahqīq fī kalimāt al-Qur'ān al-karīm, vol. 2, p. 58.
  2. ↑ Muṣṭafawī, al-Tahqīq fī kalimāt al-Qur'ān al-karīm, vol. 2, p. 58.
  3. ↑ Makārim Shīrāzī, Tafsīr-i nimūna, vol. 26, p.233.
  4. ↑ Ṭabāṭabāyī, al-Mīzān fī tafsīr al-Qurʾān, vol. 17, p. 132.
  5. ↑ Qur'an 42:17-18
  6. ↑ Mīrmuḥammadī, Jaḥīm.
  7. ↑ Fayḍ al-Kāshānī, Tafsīr al-Ṣāfī, vol. 4, p. 274.
  8. ↑ Qur'an 37:97
  9. ↑ Qummī, Tafsīr al-Qummī, vol. 1, p. 376.
  10. ↑ Qummī, Tafsīr al-Qummī, vol. 1, p. 408.
  11. ↑ Qur'an 5:86
  12. ↑ Qur'an 9:113
  13. ↑ Qur'an 37:22-23
  14. ↑ Qur'an 82:14
  15. ↑ Qur'an 79:37-39
  16. ↑ Kulaynī, al-Kāfī, vol. 1, p. 474.

References

  • Fayḍ al-Kāshānī, Muḥammad b. al-Murtaḍā al-. Tafsīr al-Ṣāfī. Edited by Ḥusayn Aʿlamī. Second edition. Tehran: Maktabat al-Ṣadr, 1415 AH.
  • Kulaynī, Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb al-. Al-Kāfī. Tehran: Dār al-Kutub al-Islāmīyya, 1407 AH.
  • Makārim Shīrāzī, Nāṣir. Tafsīr-i nimūna. Tehran: Dār al-Kutub al-Islāmiyya, 1374 Sh.
  • Mīrmuḥammadī, Kamāl al-Dīn. Jaḥīm. Published in Dāʾirat al-maʿārif-i Qurʾān. Qom: Būstān-i Kitāb, 1382 Sh.
  • Muṣṭafawī, Ḥasan. Al-Tahqīq fī kalimāt al-Qur'ān al-karīm. Tehran: Bungāh tarjuma wa nashr-i kitāb, 1360 Sh.
  • Qummī, ʿAlī b. Ibrāhīm al-. Tafsīr al-Qummī. Edited by Ṭayyib Mūsawī Jazāʾrī. Qom: Dār al-Kitāb, 1404 AH.
  • Ṭabāṭabāyī, Mūhammad Ḥusayn. Al-Mīzān fī tafsīr al-Qurʾān. Qom: Daftar-i Intishārāt-i Islāmī, 1417 AH.
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