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JANNAH:
The Garden from
the Qur’an and Hadith

What is with you runs out but what is with Allah goes on for ever.
Those who were steadfast will be recompensed according to the
best of what they did. Anyone who acts rightly, male or female, be-

ing a mumin, We will give them a good life and We will recom-
pense them according to the best of what they did. (Surat an-Nahl:
96-97)
Allah sees everything that happens; He hears every conversation
and whisper; and He knows everything that we do. No secret can be
kept from Him. We must be aware that He is at every moment and in
every way closer to us than our jugular veins, that He hears every con-
versation, knows everything that is in our hearts, and sees everything

that we do and everything that we see. In the world to come Allah will
make it clear that what confronts human beings from Allah will be
“something they did not reckon with.” (Surat az-Zumar: 47) In the world
to come, we will receive the reward for everything we have done in pub-
lic and in solitude, for every word we have uttered, and for things we
perhaps thought would remain hidden. This is Allah’s eternal justice.
This is revealed in the following verse of the Qur’an:
Everyone will be ranked according to what they did. We will pay
them in full for their actions and they will not be wronged. (Surat
al-Ahqaf: 19)

There Are Ranks in the Garden:
We understand from the Qur’an that people who enter the Garden
will be rewarded with a rank corresponding to their submission to
Allah.

They have different ranks with Allah… (Surah Al ‘Imran: 163)
Of course, no matter what rank a person enjoys in the Garden, he
will be content with it because Allah has promised happiness for all His

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