But Paradise is a lot more than ust a garden or an orchard.

But Paradise is a lot more than ust a garden or an orchard. The Arabs never had the habit of living nside their orchards. Their homes, built of sun dried or fire baked lay, were grouped together rather than scattered inside orchards as s the case with Paradise. The presence of a good number of Jews in ioth Medina (where they were more numerous due to the city’s olerable climate) and Mecca permitted the Jews’ contribution to such oan words.

Jahannam, a derivation from Hebrew Gehinnom (According to the Oxford English Dictionary (GED), its full Hebrew name ge hen Hinnom, the valley of the son of I-linnom, denoting a place near erusalem where, according to Jeremiah 19:5, children were burnt in sacrifice to Baal the fertility god of polytheist Canaanites, or to Molech (Moloch). For more information, refer to II Kings 23:10 and Jeremiah 32:35 in the Bible.) (Latin 7ehenna), hell, is another.

An overall ‘View" of this heavenly place can fill a book and nay be out of the scope of this book; therefore, let us take a look at its gates as seen by an eye-witness: (pbuh) who is quoted on p. 144, Vol.

8, of Bihar al-Anwar, describing it as transmitted by Abdullah ibn Mas’ud thus: When my Lord permitted me to ascend to heaven, Gabriel (as) said to me, "I have been ordered to show you both Paradise and hell." So I saw Paradise and the blessings it contains, and I saw hell and the types of torment it has. Paradise has eight gates, on each one of which are four statements, each one of which is better than the world and what is in it for those who comprehend and act upon them.

And hell has seven gates, on each one of which are three statements, each one of which is better than this world and what is therein for those who comprehend and act upon them. Gabriel (as) said to me, "O Muhammad! Read what is written on these gates!" So I read them.

On the first gate of Paradise it is written: There is no god except Allah; Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah; Ali is a true servant (wall) of Allah; there are means to attain everything, and the means of livelihood are four: contentment, spending on the right cause, renunciation of grudge, and keeping company with the people of righteousness.