Page 123 - Jannah: The Garden from the Qur'an and Hadith

Harun Yahya
(Adnan Oktar)

The Beautiful Landscape of the Garden:
The Prophet described the beauty of the landscape of the
Garden:

[It is built of] one brick of gold and one brick of silver, its mor-
tar is of strongly scented musk, its stones are pearls and emer-
alds, and its soil is of saffron … (At-Tirmidhi; Ahmad ibn
Hanbal, Musnad)
In this hadith, the soil of the Garden is said to be saffron, a spice
and dyestuff obtained from a valuable plant. This plant, with its
vanilla-like aroma and its bright golden colour is a very special
spice. To obtain one kilogram of saffron, between 70 thousand and
250 thousand flowers must be picked. Today, the production of saf-
fron decreases daily. The most important factor in this is the diffi-
culty in growing the plant because it takes between 3-4 years for saf-
fron to be harvested. That such a valuable plant, which is grown

with such difficulty in this world, is so plentiful in the Garden that
it covers the whole landscape shows that the blessings there will be
beyond reckoning.

The Expanse of the Garden:
When the People of the Garden settle in Allah‘s Garden a wide
space will be left over. There, Allah will populate three hundred
and sixty worlds, each one of which is larger than the world
from its creation to its end. (Ahmad Diya ad-Din al-
Kamushkhanawi, Ramuz al-Ahadith, vol. 1, p. 30/5)

As the Prophet points out in this hadith, there is vast spa-
ciousness in the Garden. Contrary to the narrow restriction of the
Fire described in the Qur’an, the Garden is expansive. It has been
created in this way so that the human spirit may delight in open

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