Page 201 - Jannah: The Garden from the Qur'an and Hadith

made heirs of the incomparable blessings of

the Garden live in a state of pleasure and joy as
they await the promised Garden.
A person who thinks of the Garden with
the intelligence and awareness that comes from
faith will live with the awareness of this bless-
ing in the depths of his spirit. In one hadith the
Prophet tells us that the Garden is more impor-
tant and valuable than anything else:
And the measure of the bow of any of you or

the space of a foot of the Garden is better
than the world and everything in it. (Sahih
al-Bukhari)
And the measure of the bow of any of you of
the Garden will be better than all that over
which the sun rises or sets. (Sahih al-Bukhari;
Sahih Muslim; at-Tirmidhi)
Throughout this book we have considered de-
scriptions from the Qur’an and the hadith from
which we can say that everything pertaining to the
Garden is absolutely perfect in itself and when
compared with the things of this world. This su-
periority of the Garden and its perfection are won-
derful things for which human beings search this

world throughout their whole lives without suc-
cess. Therefore, to feel a longing for the Garden, to
hope to be worthy of it and to experience the joy of
our Lord’s promise of the Garden are all very great
blessings.