please Allah and thus deserve the Garden will be there, residing as friends
forever.
From the Qur'an we know that magnificent things exist in the Garden:
Splendid mansions, shady gardens and flowing rivers add to the joy of
people of the Garden. In fact, what we have outlined above is truly
insufficient to describe the blessings of the Garden. The beauty of the
Garden is beyond even our imagination.
In the Qur'an, Allah informs us that in the Garden, man will attain
more of what he expects. Think of something you want to have or
somewhere you want to travel. By Allah's will, you will have them in a
single moment. In one verse Allah states the following:
…You will have there everything you demand. (Surah Fussilat: 31)
Some of the verses in the Qur'an that relate the beauty of the Garden
are as follows:
An image of the Garden which is promised to the righteous: in it
there are rivers of water which will never spoil and rivers of milk
whose taste will never change and rivers of wine, delightful to all
who drink it, and rivers of honey of undiluted purity; in it they
will have fruit of every kind and forgiveness from their Lord…
(Surah Muhammad: 15)
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