The path (4)

The path (4)

after the path, the believers will stand in the vault:

What preceded was that among the people of knowledge are those who see those who see the basin when it is placed between the Sirat before entering paradise. The questions detailing the issue preceded.

   As for the vault, it is a special place for the believers, truncating one over the other, as a comfort for themselves and remover of what yield and envy there is in their hearts before they enter the high paradise. This comfort is different from the first comfort as it purifies them before they enter paradise. Allah Almighty said:

{وَنَزَعْنَا مَا فِي صُدُورِهِمْ مِنْ غِلٍّ تَجْرِي مِنْ تَحْتِهِمُ الْأَنْهَارُ وَقَالُوا الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ الَّذِي هَدَانَا لِهَذَا} [الأعراف: 43]

 “And We will have removed whatever is within their breasts of resentment, [while] flowing beneath them are rivers. And they will say, "Praise to Allah , who has guided us to this” [Al Araaf: 43]


Narrated by Abu Sa`id Al Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him), he said: “The believers, after being saved from the (Hell) Fire, will be stopped at a bridge between Paradise and Hell and mutual retaliation will be established among them regarding wrongs they have committed in the world against one another. After they are cleansed and purified (through the retaliation), they will be admitted into Paradise; and by Him in Whose Hand Muhammad's soul is, everyone of them will know his dwelling in Paradise better than he knew his dwelling in this world”^[1]

   After that comes the great victory and the eternal comfort:

   Yes, it is paradise, our Enduring Home. We ask Allah Almighty for his permission for that great wish; where (it has) what fulfills the souls and delights the eyes. (It has) what no eye has seen, no ear has heard and no danger over the hearts of anyone. Take your imagination and think of the greatest comfort that you want. If you finish, then know that in paradise (there is) higher than what you can picture or imagine and there is no danger upon you.

Allah Almighty said:

{وَفِيهَا مَا تَشْتَهِيهِ الْأَنْفُسُ وَتَلَذُّ الْأَعْيُنُ وَأَنْتُمْ فِيهَا خَالِدُونَ} [الزخرف: 71]

“And therein is whatever the souls desire and [what] delights the eyes, and you will abide therein eternally.” [Al Zukhruf: 71]

   What a beautiful Enduring Home. Allah Almighty said about it: “Prepared for My Pious slaves things which have never been seen by an eye, or heard by an ear, or imagined by a human being”

{ فَلَا تَعْلَمُ نَفْسٌ مَا أُخْفِيَ لَهُمْ مِنْ قُرَّةِ أَعْيُنٍ } [السجدة: 17]

“And no soul knows what has been hidden for them of comfort for eyes as reward for what they used to do” [Al Sajda: 17]^[2]