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We are now starting our new series

and this new series is about the life of the Barzakh.

This is a precursor to the knowledge of heaven and hell.

We are working our way from the science of judgement day

until the actual Kiyama and what will happen after Kiyama.

There will be a few lectures that are in between.

That in between is called the life of the Barzakh.

In these series of lectures we will discuss what do we know about the life of the Barzakh.

And the term Barzakh is used in the Qur'an

and it is an Arabic word that implies a barrier, a middle.

It implies something that is in between two things.

And Allah Azza wa Jal uses the Barzakh in a physical and in a metaphysical sense.

As for the physical, in Surat Ar-Rahman Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala says,

He has sent the two oceans or the two rivers flowing between these two rivers is what is a Barzakh.

Now this Barzakh is a physical Barzakh, it is an actual barrier.

So we get the word what does Barzakh mean?

Barzakh means an actual middle, something that separates the two.

And by the way the majority of our scholars understood

Marajal Bahriniyat Ar-Tayyan as being the Red Sea and the Persian Sea or the Gulf, if you like.

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