Dar as-Salam (دار السلام), rendered in English as the "Abode of Peace," is one of the Seven Heavens of the Arabs in traditional Islamic cosmology. The name derives from the Arabic dār (house, abode) and salām (peace, safety, wholeness). In the Quran, it appears as a name for Paradise, the final abode of the righteous: "For them is the Abode of Peace with their Lord" (Quran 6:127). As a celestial sphere, it is the fourth heaven, a zone of divine mercy and stillness, where the turbulence of the lower worlds gives way to the first clear reception of unmitigated grace.

Position on the Tree of Life

Dar as-Salam is assigned to Sephirah 4, Chesed—Mercy. This is the first sphere of the Pillar of Mercy, the great expansive force of the Qabbalistic cosmos. Its seat in the fourth heaven places it at the center of the sevenfold celestial ladder, a station of equilibrium between the higher triadic heavens and the lower Paradise-gardens. As Chesed is the sphere of love, vision, and the beneficent power of the divine, Dar as-Salam is its celestial counterpart: a heaven of fulfilling stillness rather than of active creation or judgment.

Astrological and planetary correspondence

In the schema of the Seven Heavens, the fourth heaven is traditionally governed by the Sun (Shemesh). The association is natural: the Sun at its meridian is a source of sustaining light and measured warmth, qualities that mirror the abundance and peace of Chesed. The fixed star of this heaven is sometimes given as Saturn in parallel traditions, but within the consistent Liber 777 mapping, the Sun's regency over Dar as-Salam underscores the sphere's nature as the heart of the heavens—radiant, central, and life-giving.

Historical context

Islamic tradition, drawing on Quranic references and Hadith (especially the Isra' and Mi'raj narrative), describes seven heavens stacked one above the other. In the account of the Night Journey, the Prophet Muhammad ascends through them, meeting various prophets at each gate. The fourth heaven is where he encounters Idris (Enoch). This heaven is also called Jannat al-Ma'wa in some sources (the Garden of Refuge), though Crowley's table distinguishes them, placing Jannat al-Ma'wa at Geburah. The distinction likely reflects a complex taxonomy in Arabic cosmography, where different names describe different aspects or degrees of the same celestial geography.

The term Dar as-Salam itself is pre-Islamic in its components but is elevated in the Quran to become a formal name for Paradise. By the time of the medieval Arab encyclopedists (al-Mas'udi, al-Qazwini), the seven heavens had been fully integrated with Ptolemaic planetary spheres: the fourth heaven, sphere of the Sun, was considered the midpoint of creation, where the divine command issues forth into the lower cosmos. In the Ikhwan al-Safa (Brethren of Purity), the fourth heaven is the abode of the celestial Intellect that governs the sublunar world, a concept perfectly consonant with the sphere of Chesed and the formative power of the letter Dalet.

Closing

In Liber 777, Dar as-Salam appears at scale step 4, row CXXVII (the Seven Heavens of the Arabs), column 7. It is the sole occupant of that cell, anchoring the fourth heaven to the Sephirah of Mercy. The table thus records not a mere translation, but an identification: the Abode of Peace is the Chesed of the Arab heavens, the sphere of quiet abundance that precedes both judgment and the final beatific gardens.