Araf (Islam)

In Islam, al-A'raf (Arabic: الأعراف) is a separator realm or borderland between Jannah (heaven) and Jahannam (hell),[2] 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.

[4] In this high wall lived people who witness the terror of hell and the beauty of paradise.

They yearn to enter paradise, but their sins and virtues are evenly balanced.

Yet with the mercy of God, they will be among the last people to enter the paradise.

Diagram of "Plain of Assembly" ( Ard al-Hashr) on Judgment Day, from an autograph manuscript of Futuhat al-Makkiyya by Ibn Arabi , the Sufi mystic and Muslim philosopher , with the 'Araf Bridge), Jahannam (Hell), and Marj al-Jannat (Meadow of Paradise). [ 1 ]
Comparison of Other-wordly places in Christianity and Islam [ citation needed ]