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Walking to Your Palace in Jannah
RasulAllah
sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam says in the hadith that we talked about earlier
that you will know your place in Jannah more than you knew your house in dunya.
Instinctively, you will know where your residence is in Jannah.
So
you get to this huge mansion that is yours. One brick is gold and one brick is
silver; wonderful colours. Architecture is something that we don’t know of in
this world. In Jannah, there is no limitation of gravity, the material of
Jannah is not restricted as it is in dunya; there’s no concrete or tile in
Jannah. The palaces are of gold and silver.
You’re
getting closer and closer to your palace, and you see something that makes you
freeze in your tracks. You become immobile and you cannot move any further,
because of the stunning beauty of what you see – your wife in Jannah.
Before
we talk about that, let’s talk about your palace in Jannah. Allah says in the Qur’an:
“But those who fear Allah and keep their duty to their Lord (Allah), for them
are built lofty rooms; one above another under which rivers flow (i.e.
Paradise). (This is) the Promise of Allah: and Allah does not fail in (His)
Promise.” (39:20) There’s a lot of emphasis in Jannah of things above each
other. Things are in all directions; it is not like the surface of this earth.
Only Allah knows if Jannah is limited to the three dimensions. This is just
speculation, but Jannah is different. The rivers are flowing beneath them.
Everything
that we have in dunya, there is something that resembles it in akhirah. But
that is the only thing that is the same – the name. There is Fire in dunya and
Fire in akhirah. But the fire in akhirah is different. RasulAllah sallallahu
‘alayhi wa sallam says that hell fire was burned for 1,000 years until it
turned red. Then it was burned for 1,000 years more until it turned white. And
then it was burned for 1,000 years more until it turned dark. Imagine black
fire. There is fire in dunya in fire and akhirah, but they are different.
Similarly,
there is water, milk and wine in Jannah. The only thing that they have in
common with the things in this dunya is the name. The quality and quantity is
completely different. Just as there are tents in this dunya, there are tents in
Jannah. Allah says: “Companions restrained (as to their glances), in (goodly)
pavilions.” (55:72) You have these huge pavilions.
The
Prophet sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam said that Gabriel said, “Here is Khadija
coming to you with a dish of food or a tumbler containing something to drink.
Convey to her a greeting from her Lord (Allah) and give her the glad tidings
that she will have a palace in Paradise built of Qasab wherein there will be
neither any noise nor any fatigue (trouble).” [Bukhaari, 9/93/588] The imam
said of Khadija’s palace: “One pearl that is hollowed from the inside.”
In
another hadith in at-Tirmidhi RasulAllah sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam said that
there are rooms in Jannah where you can see the outside from the inside and
from the inside you can see the outside. How can that be possible? We don’t
know. One Bedouin asked RasulAllah sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam who these rooms
would belong to. RasulAllah sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam said that they are for
those who speak good words, feed the poor, they fast and they pray at night
when people are sleep.
RasulAllah
sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam said: “A tent (in Paradise) is like a hollow pearl
which is thirty miles in height and on every corner of the tent the believer
will have a family that cannot be seen by the others.” [Bukhaari, 4/54/466]
How can we increase our property in Jannah?
RasulAllah
sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam said, “Whoever built a mosque, (Bukhari thought
that ‘Asim, another subnarrator, added, “Intending Allah’s Pleasure”), Allah
would build for him a similar place in Paradise.” [Bukhaari, 1/8/441]
RasulAllah
sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam said, If you pray 12 rak’ah of sunnah on a daily
basis, Allah will give you a palace in Paradise. What are the sunnah prayers?
Two before fajr; four before dhuhr & two after dhuhr; two after maghrib and
two after isha. Every day, you could be building yourself a new house in
Jannah. While it could take you years to build a house for yourself in this dunya,
but in akhirah you can get it for these prayers every day. Let us take
advantage of this reward.
Your Spouses
So
you are walking towards your palace in Paradise and you see your wife. Whether
it is your wife from dunya or your wife from Jannah – but you will see her face
and just be frozen in his tracks because of her beauty. [Just a quick comment
on the Imam saying ‘your wife from dunya or from Jannah’ – of course, that is
because a believer’s spouse can end up in hell although they may end up in Jannah.
wAllahu ‘Alam]. Allah says about them, “Companions of equal age” (78:33) and He
says, “We have created (their Companions) of special creation, And made them
virgin – pure (and undefiled), Beloved (by nature), equal in age.” (56:35-37)
One
of the scholars said that this man will just stand there and stare at her for
40 years. These women are not beautiful because they were voted in by a panel
of men at a beauty contest :) Allah said that they are beautiful, and it is
enough for us that Allah said they are beautiful. Allah says, “In them will be
fair companions, good and beautiful.”
Anas
ibn Maalik narrated that RasulAllah sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam says, in a
hadith in Bukhaari, “If one of the women of Jannah would just appear to the
people of this world, the distance of the heavens and the earth would be filled
with light and her scent will cover the whole distance, and the scarf that she
has on her head is better than the world and everything in it.” This sun of
ours that lights up this earth is very close to us. If we go further away in
the solar system, the sunlight barely penetrates other parts of the universe.
And we have a woman of Jannah, at a much farther distance, and her light will
fill the heavens and the earth. RasulAllah sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam said
that a piece of cloth on her head (her scarf) is better than the earth and
everything in it.
Once,
RasulAllah sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam received a piece of cloth as a gift and
the sahabah were quite impressed with it – they were passing it around and
touching it. RasulAllah sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam smiled and he said, “It
seems that you are impressed by the quality of this cloth. The handkerchiefs of
Mu’aadh ibn Jabl in Paradise are better than this.” So the quality of things in
Jannah is better than anything in this world.
Allah
says, about the Hur al ‘ayn, that they have a special creation. The same goes
for men - they will have the height of Adam ‘alayhis salaam, which is about 90
yards; the beauty of Yusuf ‘alayhis salaam [who was the most beautiful man];
the age of ‘Eesa [Jesus] ‘alayhis salaam - which was 30 years. Men in dunya
will be impotent compared to the men of akhirah. The sahabah were quite shocked
by this description. RasulAllah sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam said, in a hadith
in at-Tirmidhi, that a man in Jannah will have the strength of 100 men in this
world. Everything is better in Jannah.
Allah
says of the women of Jannah: “(In beauty) they are like rubies and coral.”
(55:58)
RasulAllah
sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam says in another hadith that the women of Jannah
will be so beautiful that you will be able to see the marrow in the bone from
behind the clothes. I keep thinking – How could this be a sign of beauty? Keep
in mind that RasulAllah has seen this and he is trying to convey it to us. Our
minds are unable to grasp this different dimension in Jannah and we cannot
understand it.
Entering Your Palace
Now
you’ve spent all of these years staring at your wife – then you will enter into
your mansion. Everything is new to you. Everything is an experience. You look
at the furniture in your mansion – the quality, the arrangement, etc. You go
from room to room, saying alhamdulillah. This is an insult to call it
furniture, because there is no comparison.
Allah
says: “Therein will be Thrones (of dignity), raised on high. Goblets placed
(ready), and cushions set in rows.” (88:13-15) They are not just beautiful, but
the way the furniture is arranged is special. Imagine that an angel that is a
specialist and specially prepares this for you. So you and your wife will go
around and be amazed by the taste and art of the angels, and comparing it to
your house in dunya and the difference. So you’ll go and have a seat and touch
the fabric, impressed with everything.
Allah
says: “They will recline (with ease) on Thrones (of dignity) arranged in ranks;
and We shall join them to Companions, with beautiful big and lustrous eyes.”
(52:20) So you’ll spend a few months, enjoying the pleasure of these cushions
and this beautiful palace. Don’t think that this is an exaggeration – in Jannah
you don’t have to go anywhere or do anything; you have unlimited time. You
could leave your palace and see a rose and sit there watching this rose for a
year. There is nothing rushing you; you don’t have work. You can do whatever
you want. Everything can wait. You can talk to your wife for a long time,
talking about the tough moments of the grave, the Day of Judgment, etc.
Then
your wife will tell you to look at the rest of your property. You will say, no,
I enjoy it here, this couch is nice. She will say, listen, you kept me at home
in dunya. Let’s go out and take a look at what Allah has given us. In dunya you
worked and had me at home, and now in Jannah you want to keep me here? Then the
two of you will go out and look at your property.
In
the lowest Jannah, you will have 10 times of this dunya and everything in it.
The levels in akhirah in huge – so imagine how much more a person in a higher
rank will have! So this is humongous real estate in Jannah.
Before
you look at your property with your wife, you will have something to eat and
drink. You will have youth running around your palace, dressed in wonderful colours,
they’re all smiling and serving you all of these things you have never seen
before. Just seeing how welcoming and bright these youth are is an enjoyment in
itself.
Ibn
Kathir says, the people of Jannah will be served by youth that live for
eternity. They never change or grow in age. If you see how many they are and
how willing they are to serve you and how bright and beautiful their faces are,
smiling all the time, and you look at the colours of their clothes and the jewellery
they are wearing, they appear to be scattered pearls.
Allah
says, “And round about them will (serve) youths of perpetual (freshness): If
thou seest them, thou wouldst think them scattered Pearls.” (76:19) Your wife
doesn’t have to do anything; it is pure enjoyment for both of you. So you’re
sitting there and being served by these wonderful servants. You’ll have
something to eat and drink and then you’ll leave.
Your Rivers of Jannah – FOUR
You
will have a guide for you since the property is so big. As soon as you leave
your mansion, you’ll smell this wonderful smell. You’ll look for the source and
discover that it is the soil of Jannah. You’ll pick it up and see that it is
musk. You’ll go and find that this soil – white, pure musk – is the soil of
Jannah, everywhere.
Then
you will hear the sound of water. You’ll ask your guide, what is this? He will
tell you that it is a river, located right beneath your palace. You’ll wonder,
I have a river underneath my palace?! And then he will tell you this river
belongs to you – it’s all yours. You’ll go to visit it. You’ll ask the guide,
what is this? The guide will tell you, it’s a river of water. You’ll take a cup
and keep drinking – it is nothing like the water of this world. Now, if you’re
Jannah, you’re not drinking because you are thirsty. If you are in Jannah, you
already had a drink of al-kawthar, and that will satisfy you for eternity.
On
the Day of Judgment, an extension of al-kawthar will come to where the Day of
Judgment is being held. RasulAllah sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam will be
standing next to this pool/lake, and he will be pouring water for his
followers. He will do it with his own hands. If you are one of the Muslims and
he is making shafa’aa` for you, he will invite you and provide you water and
feed it to you. That cup of water that you will drink from the Prophet’s hands
will be sufficient for you. So the people of Jannah drink for pure pleasure.
You’ll
keep drinking from this water – it just decipitates. RasulAllah sallallahu
‘alayhi wa sallam said that it will come out as a burping – but it is the smell
of musk. Your guide will say, what are you doing? You’ll say that this water
tastes wonderful; I just want to keep drinking from it. He will say, that’s up
to you, I’m your guide, I’ll do whatever you want. But tell you what – you have
another river that is better than this.
So
you’ll say, let’s go visit this other river. You, your wife and your guide will
travel about 1,000 miles to your other river. Of course there are other forms
of transportation in Jannah and you can go as fast or slow as you want. Your
guide will tell you this is milk; it will not taste, look or smell like the milk
of this world. You and your wife will take cups and keep drinking here as well.
Your guide will tell you that there is a third river that is better than this.
You
will travel to this third river. You’ll ask, what is this? He will tell you,
this is the river of honey. You’ll have some to drink. Your guide will take you
to your last river, then. And that is the river of wine. You’ll spend some time
drinking from the wine from that river.
Then
you’ll have a tour of the springs. Allah says, “(Here is) a Parable of the
Garden which the righteous are promised: in it are rivers of water
incorruptible; rivers of milk of which the taste never changes; rivers of wine,
a joy to those who drink; and rivers of honey pure and clear…” (47:15)
Your
guide will ask you, do you want us to visit your springs? You will say, yes.
The guide will say, but I have something better for you – how about we go and
visit the river that belongs to RasulAllah? That is the river of al-kawthar.
You will ask, is it ok for me to visit it? The guide will say yes. All of the
Ummah of Muhammad sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam have permission to drink from
it. It is the best river in Paradise, and it originates from under the Throne
of Allah. It goes all the way down, penetrating through Paradise.
Then
you will go to al-kawthar. The Prophet said: “While I was walking in Paradise
(on the night of Mi’raj), I saw a river, on the two banks of which there were
tents made of hollow pearls. I asked, ‘What is this, O Gabriel?’ He said, ‘That
is the Kauthar which Your Lord has given to you.’ Behold! Its scent or its mud
was sharp smelling musk!” [Bukhaari, 8/76/583]
You
may be wondering, will I really have a guide? When RasulAllah sallallahu
‘alayhi wa sallam went to Jannah, Jibreel (Gabriel) was his guide. So it’s
perfectly fine that when you go to Jannah, you will have an angel as your
guide, showing you around. Remember that everyone in Jannah is there to serve
you. So your guide will take you to al-kawthar and give you a drink from there.
This
tour wasn’t for summer, nor did it cost anything. It took you a long time. Now
you go to your springs. Allah says: “As to the Righteous, they shall drink of a
Cup (of Wine) mixed with Kafur, A Fountain where the Devotees of Allah do
drink, making it flow in unstinted abundance.” (76:5-6) So you’ll go and join
other believers there and drink with them. Then you’ll have a chat with them
and drink and then move on to others.
Allah
says: “Truly the Righteous will be in Bliss: On Thrones (of Dignity) will they
command a sight (of all things): Thou wilt recognize in their faces the beaming
brightness of Bliss. Their thirst will be slaked with Pure Wine sealed: The
seal thereof will be Musk: And for this let those aspire, who have aspirations:
With it will be (given) a mixture of Tasnim. A spring, from (the waters)
whereof drink those Nearest to Allah.” (83:22-28)
And
Allah also says: “And they will be given to drink there a cup (of wine) mixed
with Zanjabil (ginger, etc.) A spring there called salsabil.” (76:17-18)
Day and Night?
All
of these tours are taking you years to complete. You start noticing something –
there is no sun or moon. There is no darkness; there’s no shadow; no winter,
fall or spring. You start wondering how long the day is - is there day and
night? You find out that it is constant daylight. The only way you recognize if
its day or night is by a beam coming from the Throne of Allah. Otherwise, it is
all light in Jannah.
AlQurtubi
says, “There is no night or day in Paradise, but it is continuous light.” Ibn
Taymiyyah says, “There is no sun, moon, night or day, but you know the morning
from the afternoon from night from a beam of light that is coming from
underneath the Throne of Allah.”
Allah
says: “And they will have therein their sustenance, morning and evening.”
(19:62)
Trees in Jannah
So
you’re still following your guide. You see a huge tree; you ask your guide what
it is. He tells you that this tree was described by the Prophet sallallahu
‘alayhi wa sallam (in Bukhaari), “There is a tree in Paradise (which is so big
and huge that) a rider could travel in its shade for a hundred years. And if
you wish, you can recite: ‘In shade long extended’ (56:30) and a place in
Paradise equal to an arrow bow of one of you, is better than (the whole earth)
on which the sun rises and sets.” [Bukhaari, 4/54/475]
Then
you go to other places and see other trees. The trees look very different.
There are trees with all silver branches, all gold branches, some that produce
fruit, some that produce clothes…etc etc…
Your
guide will also show you Sidratul-Muntaha. The Prophet sallallahu ‘alayhi wa
sallam saw this tree when he went to Jannah. In a hadith, [see Muslim, 1/309],
the Prophet sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam said: “Then I was taken to
Sidrat-ul-Muntaha whose leaves were like elephant ears and its fruit like big
earthenware vessels. And when it was covered by the Command of Allah, it
underwent such a change that none amongst the creation has the power to praise
its beauty.”
Once,
RasulAllah sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam was speaking about Jannah. A man asked
RasulAllah, “O Messenger of Allah, are the clothes of Jannah created or are
they woven?” The Sahabah laughed; they thought it was a stupid question. The
Prophet sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam asked, Why are you laughing? Are you laughing
because he is ignorant and he is asking somebody who knows? In other words,
RasulAllah was saying that there is no question that is stupid. RasulAllah told
the man, The clothes of Jannah come out from the trees of Jannah.
Now
you are wearing these clothes of Jannah and you go to these trees. You just
point towards a fruit from the tree and get a new pair of clothes. You get a
few new pairs of clothes. Of course, your wife will get more, obviously she’ll
take a lot of clothes. You move on and obviously you don’t have to carry them –
one of the servants will have a shopping cart and will carry them.
You’ll
go to another tree and it will have some oranges. The servant will ask, do you
want some oranges? You’ll say, no, I just had oranges a few days ago. The
servant will say, I’ll give you some more because these oranges are different.
So you grab one of these huge oranges and taste it – it tastes different! And
every orange that you have tastes better than the one before.
Allah
says: “Every time they are fed with fruits there from, they say: ‘Why, this is
what we were fed with before,’ for they are given things in similitude.” (2:25)
You can see how picky the people of Jannah become; they don’t want to have the
same food again. They will realize that it only gets better.
RasulAllah
sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam says in a hadith in at-Tirmidhi, the trees of
paradise, the branches and the trunk of it, are made of gold.
How can you increase your share in the trees of
Jannah?
RasulAllah
sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam met with Ibraheem ‘alayhis salaam in Israa` wa
miraaj. Ibraheem is the father of this Ummah; he wants the best for this Ummah.
Even though he died thousands of years before Muhammad, and is so detached from
this Ummah (in terms of time span), he was still so eager to help us. He tried
to help Muhammad sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam and so he said to him: “O
Muhammad, give your Ummah my salaam, and tell them that Pardaise is beautiful –
it’s water is pure, and it’s soil is clean, and tell them it is vast, huge
pieces of land. The trees of Jannah are subhaanAllah, walhamdulillah, wa laa
ilaaha ilallah, wAllahu Akbar.” It’s that easy – just saying that makes a tree
grow in Jannah for you. Use your time in dunya to grow acres of these trees.
You don’t want to find empty land when you go there.
If
you want to have some treasures in Paradise: la hawla wa la qu watta ilallah
billah. That is of the treasure of the treasures of Paradise.
What
about the animals and the birds of Jannah? RasulAllah sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam
was asked about the rivers of al-kawthar. So he said, it is a river that Allah
has given to me. It is whiter than milk and sweeter than honey. There are some
birds that drink from it, and their necks are like the necks of camels; these
birds are so huge and well fed from drinking from al-kawthar. They are organic,
however, because sometimes we associate size with growth hormones. ‘Umar ibn
AlKhattaab was in the audience and he said, subhaanAllah, they must be having a
lot of fun! RasulAllah sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam said that the ones who will
eat them will have more fun [the people of Jannah].
Allah
subhaana wa ta’aala says: “And the flesh of birds, any that they may desire.”
(56:21) Say you see a bird that really opens up your appetite – you just make a
request and point towards it; it will be there for you immediately for you to
eat.
You’re
with your wife, going from one restaurant to another, spending days on end out
of your mansion. [For parents this is truly bliss...because with kids the work just
seems endless and as if you never have a few hours to spend with your spouse as
you did when you were newlyweds...] You realize that this is endless. You will
go back home and rest to continue your journey later on. Imagine – if the
lowest Jannah is 10 times this earth, how much time will it take to look at
your property?!
The Wine of Jannah
You’ll
go back home and have a cup of wine from Jannah. ‘Round will be passed to them
a cup from a clear, flowing fountain, baydaa`oo - crystal white, of a taste delicious
to those who drink it. Neither they will have Ghoul (any kind of hurt,
abdominal pain, headache, a sin, etc.) from that, nor will they suffer
intoxication there from.” (37:45-46)
Ibn
Kathir says, it will not cause them headache, nor will it make them lose their
minds. Ibn ‘Abbaas says that there are four negative aspects of alcohol:
drunkenness, headaches, increased urination and nausea and vomiting. These are
four negative side effects of drinking. Ibn ‘Abbaas says that Allah has
purified the wine of Jannah from all four of these things. The people of Jannah
will drink a lot of wine, but it will not make them drunk, it will just give
them pleasure. Everything in dunya is a mixture of pleasure and pain – there is
nothing completely good or completely bad. This world is not good enough to be
Jannah or bad enough to be Hell. Alcohol comes with all of these side effects,
that is why it is made haraam in Qur’an. Allah says that there are some good
aspects from it, but the sin coming from it is greater. In Jannah, all of these
side effects will be gone and it will be pure pleasure.
WHY do the people of Jannah eat?
AlQurtubi
says, The people of Jannah do not eat to relieve themselves of pain of hunger;
they do not drink to quench themselves of thirst; they do not put on perfume to
eliminate bad smell. The reason that they do these things is because they want
to have continuous pleasures. And he says to look at the two verses where Allah
tells Adam in Jannah: “There is therein (enough provision) for thee not to go
hungry nor to go naked.” (20:118) So we’re not putting clothes on in Jannah to
cover our nakedness; we’re not eating to relieve ourselves from hunger; nor are
we suffering from thirst. So everything in Jannah is for the purpose of
pleasure and pleasure alone. Then he [AlQurtubi] says, Everything that people
used to like in this world, similar will be given to them in Jannah, but then
Allah is hiding from them things we don’t even know about.
Which Husband will a Woman Be With?
There
was a question about a woman who is divorced or widowed – who will she be with
in Jannah? First of all, if a man is married to a woman and they are both going
to Jannah, they will both be in Jannah, even if they are different in Jannah.
How will that affect their statuses? Allahu ‘Alam, but the lower level will
jump up to the higher level, because Allah, out of His Mercy, will not lower
anyone in Jannah. Allah says, “Gardens of perpetual bliss. They shall enter
there, as well as the righteous among their fathers their spouses, and their
offspring: and angels shall enter unto them from every gate.” (13:23) And Allah
says, “They and their wives, in pleasant shade, on thrones reclining.” (36:56)
Allah
says: “Enter ye the Garden, ye and your wives, in (beauty and) rejoicing.” (43:70)
So they will all be greeted into Jannah.
Now,
what happens in the situation where a man passes away and his wife marries
after him? For the other scenario, where the wife passes away and the man
remarries, he will be with his first wife and his second wife. In this case,
where the woman remarries, who will she be with in Jannah? There is a narration
that Mu’awiya wanted to marry the wife of Abu Dardaa` and she refused. Umm
Dardaa`said that she heard Abu Dardaa` say that RasulAllah sallallahu ‘alayhi wa
sallam said A woman will marry her last husband in dunya. This hadith is da’eef
[weak], but it is strengthened by two other narrations.
Asmaa`
bint Abi Bakr was married to AzZubayr ibn Al-Awwaam – one of the ten promised
Jannah. She went to her father (Abu Bakr) and complained to him about her
husband being too strict with her. AzZubayr ibn AlAwwaam was a very strong man
– a knight. He was amongst the strongest in the Sahabah. The other Muslim
soldiers once told him that he had such a powerful sword; AzZubayr got mad and
said not to give credit to the sword, it was his arm. There are numerous
stories telling about AzZubayr’s courage and his strength; it was legendary
even amongst the sahabah. AzZubayr was very strict in his dealing with his
wife, Asmaa` as well. Abu Bakr didn’t have a problem with her complain; it was
valid. AzZubayr had her do laborious work and was strict with her. Abu Bakr
said to her, “O my daughter please be patient, because a woman, if she has a
righteous husband and then he dies, and she does not marry after him, Allah
will bring them together in Jannah.” Abu Bakr knew she was going through tough
times, but he wanted her to be patient because Abu Bakr knew that AzZubayr
would have one of the highest statuses in Paradise, so he wanted for her that
to be in the same high status as AzZubayr in Jannah. It is not all about this
life.
This
is also an advice to the brothers and sisters – if you don’t like something in
your spouse, but they are righteous, be patient. It is not about dunya.
A
woman came to ‘Umar ibn AlKhattab and said, “O ‘Umar, I do not love my
husband.” ‘Umar looked at her and said, “Marriages are not all based on love.”
It is a cooperation in al-dunya, and then we are going to pass away. It’s not
all romantic love; it’s about a house that they are establishing, raising a
Muslim family and bringing up children in a good household. There needs to be
some compassion. RasulAllah sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam said, Don’t be harsh
with your spouses, because if you don’t like something in them, then there is
something else good in them that you love in them, and it should compensate.
We
are not going to get our pleasure and reward in dunya; we are going to get it
in the akhirah inshaAllah.
The
other narration is from when Hudhayfah was dying. He said to his wife, “O my
beloved wife, if you want to be my wife in akhirah, in Jannah, then do not
marry anyone after me, because I heard RasulAllah sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam
say that you will be with your last husband.”
Won’t I be Jealous of the Hoor Al ‘Ayn?
Dear
sister, let’s get it straight first of all that nobody will have any bad
feelings – no pain, jealousy, etc in Jannah.
Allah
knows His creation better than anyone and He knows what will make them happy.
Ibn
AlQayyim said that Muslim scholars are needed in both dunya and in akhirah.
They are needed in dunya to guide people to the straight path. In akhirah, they
are needed to know what to ask Allah for in Jannah. We don’t even know what’s
good for us! We may even have to ask the scholars what to ask Allah for.
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