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Deserving Candidate for Paradise

experience, but as far as words are concerned, there is no word
in any dictionary that can fully express this sublime sentiment.

Deserving Candidate

for Paradise

ho is a deserving candidate for the eternal world of
WParadise? The Quran is a revealed book which gives the
answer to this question. According to the Quran, only a muzakka
(20:76) person will be selected for being settled into Paradise.
Muzakka means a purified soul. The muzakka person is one
who prepares himself in terms of the Paradise culture, who
develops his personality on the lines required for living in the
society of Paradise. Paradise is an ideal society. Everything in
Paradise will be perfect and up to a high standard. The qualities
that are required in a muzakka person are given in the Quran in
detail.

Paradise is not anyone’s birth right, nor will one
receive entry into it through recommendation or
wishful thinking. Entry into Paradise is totally a
matter of selection, and this selection will be done by
none other than God Almighty in the world hereafter.

The hearts of the people of Paradise will be filled with the glory
of God. (39:75) This is the first quality of a muzakka person. That
is, he must discover the glory of God in the present world and
acknowledge it from deep within his heart. Glorifying God is
always a result of discovery. It means that a person should adopt

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