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JANNAH:
The Garden from
the Qur’an and Hadith

The People of the Garden Are the Same
Age:

The fact that the people of the Garden are the same
age is a great blessing from Allah. Among people with-
out deen, difference in age often leads to discord and
lack of communication. People often form groups of
persons of the same age in order to feel more relaxed
among themselves. Of course, this ought not to apply
to Muslims. No matter what age they may be, Muslims
should understand one another very well and form
friendships with people of any age, older or younger
than themselves. The fact that Muslims in the Garden
are created the same age as one another is another won-
derful blessing from Allah. The Messenger of Allah
said that the age of the people of the Garden will never
change throughout eternity:

Whoever of the People of the Garden die, whether
while young or old, will be turned into young peo-
ple of thirty years of age in the Garden, never grow-
ing older than that. And thus will be the inmates of
the Fire… (Narrated by Abu Sa’id, Sunan Ibn
Majah; at-Tirmidhi)
Another verse of the Qur’an points out that
in the Garden the believers’ wives will be the
same age as them:

We have brought maidens into being
and made them purest virgins, devot-
ed, passionate, of like age. (Surat al-
Waqi‘a: 35-37)

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