Islam As It Is
The Hereafter
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meat, and on the other side was rotten, foul -
smelling meat. These people, ignoring the good
meat, were eating the meat which had gone bad.
The Angel explained that these were the men and
women who had forsaken their own legitimate
spouses and taken to unlawful partners for the
satisfaction of their desires.”
The state of affairs in Paradise is the same. The
Quran explains that the reward given in Heaven
will be of the same hue as one’s actions in this
world. “Proclaim good tidings to those who have
faith and do good works. They shall dwell in
gardens watered by running streams. Whenever
they are given fruit to eat, they will say: ‘This is
what we used to eat before,’ for they shall be given
the like” (2:25). This means that the rewards of the
Hereafter will be in exact accordance with one’s
actions in this world. The form of the reward will be
exactly suited to our deeds.
At one place during the same Night Journey, the
Prophet saw some harvesters at work. The more
they cut, the more their harvest increased. When he
asked who they were, he was told by the Archangel
