The Paradise of the World

 


Mohammed Salama Al_Ghonaimi

 

Allah created human to comply with His legislation and His  method. He directed him to faith and good work and related them to His love and obedience ,and punishment and anger, even though it does not increase nor decrease in His kingdom.

 

Human is a responsible creature. He applied Secretariat commissioning and bear the consequences . Allah alleviated him, then He directed him to what supports him for [his] performance. Allah says: {Whoever works righteousness, whether male or female, while he (or she) is a true believer (of Islamic Monotheism) verily, to him We will give a good life (in this world with respect, contentment and lawful provision), and We shall pay them certainly a reward in proportion to the best of what they used to do (i.e. Paradise in the Hereafter)} [An-nahl:97].

 

Abu Sa`id Al-Khudri, may Allah be pleased with him, reported: Messenger of Allah (PBUH) said: «The world is sweet and green (alluring); and verily, Allah is making you to succeed each other, generations after generations in it in order to see how you act. So beware of this world and beware of women» (Muslim).

 

We are never aware of what the obedience leads to from happiness, contentment, comfort and self-stability, as well as the benediction (Barakah) in everything.

 

The scholars and the righteous talked about it after they had achieved it in their life. Ibrahim ibn Adham said: "If the kings and the sons of kings knew our felicity, they would fight us with swords about it."

 

Ibn Taymiyyah said: "There is a paradise (Jannah ) in this world who did not enter it does not enter the afterlife." He said, "what does my enemies do with me?! My paradise and my orchard is in my chest; that I kept with me, it does not go away. My detention is privacy, killing me is martyrdom, my banishment is tourism."

 

An ancestor said, "the inhabitants of the world are masakin (poor persons).They came out of it without tasting the best thing in it." He was asked, "What is the best in it?" He replied, loving Allah and His knowledge and praising Him.

 

Another said: "Sometimes my heart dances gleefully, so I say, 'if the inhabitants of Jannah live as me, they are in a good life'."