Page 137 - Jannah: The Garden from the Qur'an and Hadith

must consider carefully the idea of eter-
nity, about which we speak so easily,
because it does not refer to a thousand
or a million years, but to timelessness.
Therefore, people in the Garden will not
think about time or calculate it as in this
world. Life will not end with the passing of
years. Allah revealed this to us in the
Qur’an:

As for those who are glad, they will be
in the Garden, remaining in it timeless-
ly, for ever, as long as the heavens and
earth endure, except as your Lord wills:
an uninterrupted gift. (Surah Hud: 108)
Again in the Qur’an, Allah tells us that the
service of ageless youths will be one of the
blessings enjoyed in the Garden:

There will circulate among them, ageless
youths. (Surat al-Waqi‘a: 17)
The hadith also tell us about the endless life
of the Garden:
Allah will admit the inmates of the Garden
into the Garden and the inmates of the Fire in-

to the Fire. Then the announcer will stand be-
tween them and say: “O inmates of the
Garden, there is no death for you, O inmates
of the Fire, there is no death for you. You will
live forever therein.” (Sahih Muslim, vol. 4)