بَرْزَخٌ

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بَرْزَخٌ A thing that intervenes between any two things: or a bar, an obstruction, or a thing that makes a separation, between two things: so in the Kur lv. 20: pl. بَرَازِخُ.
2 The interval between the present life and that which is to come, from the period of death to the resurrection, upon which he who dies enters; the period, or state, from the day of death to the day of resurrection: so in the Kur xxiii. 102.
3 بَرَازِخُ الإِيمَانِ What is between the beginning of faith, which is the acknowledgment, or confession, of God, and the end thereof, which is the removal of what is hurtful from the road: or what is between doubt and certainty.

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