Ba'th

The resurrection: bodies raised and souls returned, so that everyone stands for judgement.

Also written · Bath · Baath · Ba'ath · Yawm al-Bath · Resurrection · Raising of the dead · Nushur · Hashr · Mahshar · The gathering

The meaning

What Ba'th means in Islam

The Qur'an answers the objection directly, asking who will give life to bones after they have crumbled, and replying that He who produced them the first time will (Qur'an 36:78-79). The gathering that follows is called the hashr, on an open plain where nobody is missed or overlooked. Sunni belief is that the raising is bodily and not only spiritual.

Evidence · Qur’an · Stated directly in the Qur’an

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Rooms that name it

The still was Greek, the words for it are ArabicA Light · Arabic chemical apparatus · 9th to 10th centuries
A 1531 endowment in Sarajevo still pays for its own libraryA Light · Sarajevo · endowed 1531
Baghdad's 1233 college taught four schools of law at onceA Light · Baghdad · opened 1233

Words that sit beside it

QiyamahThe Day of Resurrection, when this creation ends, the dead are raised, and everyone is judged.القِيَامَة
SurThe horn that is blown to end this world, and blown again to raise the dead.الصُّور
HisabThe reckoning: each person shown their record and questioned about the life they were given.الحِسَاب
BarzakhThe state between death and the resurrection, where the soul waits after the body is buried.البَرْزَخ
RuhThe spirit that gives a body life, whose reality Allah kept to Himself.الرُّوح