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JANNAH:
The Garden from
the Qur’an and Hadith

This example of rivers of milk, hon-
ey and wine points to other wonderful

things in the Garden that may await
Allah’s faithful slaves. Milk is a perish-
able food, but the fact that there are
rivers of it in the Garden points to the
perfection of the blessings there. It is
very easy for Allah to create such mani-
festations when the People of the
Garden desire them.

The use of the word rivers empha-
sises the abundance of these blessings in
the Garden. In this world, people can
only have a limited number of these
blessings, in jars, glass bottles and in
other types of packaging, but the fact
that there are never-ending and unadul-
terated streams of them in the Garden is
a wondrous blessing.
These rivers are described in detail

in the Qur’an:
An image of the Garden which is
promised to those who have taqwa:
in it there are rivers of water which
will never spoil and rivers of milk
whose taste will never change and

rivers of wine, delightful to all
who drink it, and rivers of honey
of undiluted purity; in it they will

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