Jahannam

thumb|Angels in Islam|Angels honor Adam, except Iblis, who refuses. Painting from an illustrated subsection containing Bal'ami's Persian rendition of the Annals in a much larger Herat manuscript.

thumb|A depiction of Muhammad visiting Jahannam; artwork from [[Miraj Nameh]] In Islam, Jahannam () is the place of punishment for evildoers in the Akhirah / afterlife, or hell. This notion is an integral part of Islamic theology, and has occupied an important place in Muslim belief. The concept is often called by the proper name "Jahannam", but other names refer to hell and these are also often used as the names of different gates to hell. The term "Jahannam" itself is used not only for hell in general but (in one interpretation) for the uppermost layer of hell.

thumb|upright=0.75|Depiction of a shayṭān by Siyah Qalam, 14th/15th century. The art-style of Uighur or [[Central Asia origin was used by Muslim Turks to depict various legendary beings.]] Shayāṭīn ( ; ) refers to a class of evil spirits in Islam, inciting humans and jinn to sin by whispering ( ) in their hearts ( ). According to Islamic tradition, though invisible to humans, shayāṭīn are imagined to be ugly and grotesque creatures created from the fires of hell.

thumb|The ifrit Arghan's eyes are slightly crossed and his orange skin spotted all over; he carries a chest over the waters on behalf of Hamza, from an illustration in the Hamzanama

thumb|Zaqqoum, the fruit of the dwellers of Jahannam. In Islamic tradition, the Zaqqum is a cursed tree that is rooted in the center of Hell. It is first mentioned in the Quran (17:60; 37:62–68; 44:43; 56:52), three times by name, as a tree that produces fruits that is fed to the inhabitants of hell to burn their stomachs, before they are also fed boiling liquids.

In Islamic belief, Maalik () denotes an angel in Hell/Purgatory () who guarded the Hellfire and assisted by other angel guards (Q) known as Zabaniyah (). In the Qur'an, Maalik is mentioned in as the chief of angels of hell. The earliest codices offer various alternative spellings of this word including , meaning "angel", instead of a proper name.

thumb|Zabaniyah torture sinners in Hell (Jahannam) in a 1436 CE illumination

Sijjīn ( lit. Netherworld, Underworld, Chthonian World) is in Islamic belief either a prison, vehement torment or straitened circumstances at the bottom of Jahannam or hell, below the earth (compare Greek Tartarus), which is mentioned in Quran . Sijjin is also considered to be a place for the souls of disbelievers until resurrection.