Do I enter it even before you?

Do I enter it even before you?’ He said: ‘Yes, For you are my standard in Hereafter, the same as you are my standard in the world, and the standard is always placed before’.” [^4] Ali-ibn-Abitalib (as) said: “There is no price for your selves save Paradise, then, do not sell your self but for it.” [^5] Amir-ul-Mu’mineen Ali (as) said: “He who sells his self for other than Paradise, he has made his affliction grievous” [^6] The Messenger of Allah (S) said: “Promise upon six things for me, then I will promise (and guarantee) Paradise for you: Whenever one of you speaks, he should not tell a lie; and when he is trusted, he should not be treacherous; and when he promises, he should not breach; and lower your eyes (from forbidden things); and hold your hands (from wrong); and guard your modesty.” [^7] The Messenger of Allah (S) said: “Paradise is enclosed by pains and difficulties, and (falling in) Hell is enclosed by lusts.” [^8] Amir-ul-Mu’mineen Ali (as) was speaking and he said: “Verily the people of Heaven look unto the houses (and places) of our followers, as a person looks at the stars.” [^9] The Messenger of Allah (S) said: “A span from Paradise (in comparison) is better than the world and whatever is in it.” [^10] ‘Abdillah-ibn-Zayd-Mazini has narrated from the Messenger of Allah (S) who said: “There is a garden from the gardens of Paradise between my house and my pulpit.” [^11] ‘Abu-Hurayrah narrated from the Prophet (S) who said: “There is a garden from the gardens of Paradise between my house and my pulpit, and my pulpit is upon my Houd.” These two traditions may indicate to the place of Hadrat Fatimah’s grave.

[^12] Allah, the Almighty, the Glorious, said: “Surely Hell lies in ambush”, “For the transgressors a destination”. [^13] Ali-ibn-Abitalib (as) said: “Hell is a Fire whose flame does not subside, whose capture does not release and whose break does not close.

Its heat is terrible, its depth is far, and its water is pus.” [^14] Again, Ali-ibn-Abitalib (as) said: “Avoid the Fire whose heat is terrible, whose depth is far, and whose ornament is iron.” [^15] Amir-ul-Mu’mineen Ali (as) said: “Avoid the Fire whose roar is forthcoming, whose flame is terrible, and whose chastisement is fresh." Ali-ibn-Abitalib (as) said: “How may I be patient of (Hell) Fire that if it casts a parcel unto the earth, it will burn all its plants, and if a person refuges to a mountain its heat will cook him thereon?