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The prophet
Muhammad
gaun up tae hieven
Gustave Dore
's pictur o hieven frae the
Divine Comedy
Hieven
is a concept o the
efterlife
in mony
releegions
, maist aften
Abrahamic
anes. Thae that believe in hieven threaps that it is a place that is
perfit
; the place whaur fowk gangs efter daith gin thay'v been
guid
in this life. Some fowk believes in
Hell
an aw, the destination for fowk that haes been ill. Ideas o Hieven an Hell isna the same in aw releegions; mony releegions disna hae the concepts ava.
The hievens
is anither wey o sayin the sky, lift or
ooter space
, acause aerly fowk believed that hieven wis a physical place. This place wis locate in the sky.
In
Christianity
, Hieven is the place whaur
God
bides. It is anither wird for the speeritual warld, acause the Christian God is pure speerit. Houaniver, the
prophets
o the
Bible
, like
Isaiah
, aften spak o a physical Kinrick o Hieven that will occupee a new Yird, an be ruled bi God (the
Messiah
) in the flesh hissel, whaur fowk will hae physical bodies that winna dee anither daith.
Mony fowk that believes in Hieven the day haes ideas different frae thaim descrived in the Bible.
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Heaven
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