Page 21 - Jannah: The Garden from the Qur'an and Hadith

beauty of the blessings
that our Lord has prepared there for
His faithful slaves will truly be under-
stood only in the Hereafter (akhira). The pleasure they will give to
the human spirit can only be tasted there. The reason for this is that
Allah has vouchsafed these blessings and good things only to His slaves
who have faith. He has withheld the blessings of the Garden from those
who reject Him. In the Qur’an we are told that those who do not enter
the Garden will experience a deep longing for it in the Hereafter and

that their lives there will be full of sorrow. They will long for the Garden
and will wish in eternal sorrow that they had entered it. Of course, they
were aware in this life of the existence of the Garden and its beauty, but
they ignored it. They focused all their attention on this world thinking
they could satisfy the longing of their hearts in this life.
It is hoped that what is written in this book will be a means where-
by people caught up in serious error may understand that real life will
be lived only in the Hereafter, and thus they will spend their lives striv-
ing to win the favour of the Lord. It will, we hope, increase the pleasure
and determination of people with faith as well as their longing to attain
the Garden; it will lead them to strive to do good works so that they
may be slaves beloved by Allah.

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