SECOND REMINDER: THE PLEASURES OF PARADISE
BismilLahir Rahmaanir Raheem
If you enter Paradise, you will live a very happy life without sickness, pain, sadness, or death; ALLAH will be pleased with you; and you will live there forever. ALLAH has said in the Quran:
“But those who believe and do good deeds, I will admit them to gardens (Paradise) in which rivers flow, lasting in them forever....” (Quran 4:57).
Paradise is something which people will never be able to understand until they actually enter it, but ALLAH has shown us glimpses of it in the Quran. He has described it as a place essentially different to the life of this world, both in the very nature and purpose of life, as well as the types of delights which people will enjoy therein.
The Quran tells people about Paradise, which ALLAH offers to them, describes its great blessings, and proclaims its beauties to everyone. The Quran informs people that Paradise is one of two ways of life prepared for them in the after world, and that every good thing will be theirs in Paradise to a degree that surpasses our present ability to imagine.
It also shows that Paradise is a place where all blessings have been created perfectly and where people will be offered everything their souls and hearts will desire, and that people will be far removed from want and need, anxiety or sadness, sorrow and regret. Every kind of beauty and blessing exists in Paradise and will be revealed with a perfection never seen or known before.
ALLAH has prepared such blessings there as a gift, and these will be offered only to people with whom He is pleased.
But what is the nature of these delights in Paradise, and how will it be different from the delights of this world? I will try to highlight a few of these differences in the next reminder in shaa ALLAH.
May ALLAH grant us Jannatul Firdaus. AMIN
