صَلُّوۡا عَلَى الۡحَبِيۡب                                                                 صَلَّى اللّٰهُ عَلٰى مُحَمَّد

Dear Islamic brothers! Ponder over how Allah Almighty has decorated Paradise and prepared exquisite bounties for His slaves therein. Let us further listen to a brief description of Paradise so that a desire to gain it is created within our hearts and we develop a passion to perform good deeds.

Description of Paradise

Sadr-ush-Shari’ah, Mufti Amjad Ali A’zami رَحْمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ عَـلَيْه states in the first part of Bahaar-e-Shari’at in relation to Paradise: Paradise is a place that Allah Almighty created for the believers. Such blessings have been created within in it that no eye has seen nor any ear has heard of nor has the thought of them crossed a person’s heart. Whenever an example is given in order to describe it, it is only to make us understand, for even the greatest of things in this world can never be compared to anything found in Paradise.

Only Allah Almighty and His Messenger صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم truly know how vast Paradise is, but a brief description is that there are 100 levels of Paradise, and the distance between two levels is like the distance between the heavens and the earth. In Paradise, there is a tree whose shade is so vast that if a fast horse was to ride through it for 100 years, it would not reach its end. The gates of Paradise will be so wide that it will take a fast horse 70 years to go from one end to the other. The walls of Paradise will be made from bricks of gold and silver that are cemented together with musk. One brick of gold, one brick of silver, the ground will be of saffron and there will be pearls and rubies in place of stones.

According to one narration, in the Paradise of ‘Adn, there will be a brick made of white pearls, another made of red rubies and one made of