Al-A'raf (realm of afterlife)

This article is about a concept of part of the afterlife in Islam. For surah of the Quran, see Al-A'raf (surah).

In Islam, al-A'raf (Arabic: الأعراف literally translated as "the heights" in English) is a separator realm or borderland between Jannah (Paradise) and Jahannam (Hell), inhabited by those who are evenly balanced in their sins and virtues, they are not entirely evil nor are they entirely good. This place may be described as a kind of benevolent purgatory with privation but without suffering. Some hadith depict that rather than this place being a middle ground purgatory in between Heaven and Hell, it is actually just the top layer of Hell, the least severe layer.

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