Why water and greenery in paradise and fire in hell.
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Whenever
Allah says about Heaven in the Holy Quran, He used water falls and rivers
and whenever he is saying about hell, he used Fire. Can you explain me the
reason?
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Answer:
Why water and
greenery in paradise and fire in hell
In the name of Allah, We praise Him, seek His
help and ask for His forgiveness. Whoever Allah guides none can misguide,
and whoever He allows to fall astray, none can guide them aright. We bear
witness that there is none worthy of worship but Allah Alone, and we bear
witness that Muhammad (saws) is His slave-servant and the seal of His
Messengers.
Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 3 Ale
Imraan verse 14-15:
14 Fair in the eyes of men is the love of things they covet: women, and
sons, heaped-up hoards of gold and silver, branded horses (or vehicles), and
(wealth of) cattle and well-tilled land.
Such are the possessions of this worldly life; but in nearness to Allah
is the best of the goals (to return to).
15 Say: ‘Shall I give you glad tidings of things far better than those?
For the righteous are Gardens in nearness to their Lord, with rivers flowing
beneath; therein is their Eternal Home with companions pure (and holy); and the
Good Pleasure of Allah.’
It is the inherent and the very nature of man that he
loves and covets for himself huge expanse of well-tilled land, greenery,
fruit-bearing trees, rivers and waterfalls, etc….and it is placed in the same
nature of man that he despises and fears the elements of unbearable heat and
fire.
The incentives of the Eternal Gardens of Paradise and the
fear of the everlasting punishments and the unbearable torture of Hell Fire are
just a basic overview of the contrast which the Lord has portrayed for the life
of the Hereafter……so that those who fear Allah and His Day of Tribunal may
strive for Paradise and warn those who do not fear Allah regarding their
inevitable penalty and humiliation.
The Truth brother is that the rewards of Paradise are such
that no eyes has ever seen, no ears have ever heard, and no human mind has even
ever imagined…and it is safe to assume that the penalty and the punishment and
the humiliation of the dwellers of Hell would be likewise in contrast!
Allah says in the Holy
Quran Chapter 32 Surah Sajdah verse 17:
No living being knows
what comfort of the eyes has been kept hidden from them, as a recompense (in
Sahih Al-Bukhari
Hadith 4.467 Narrated by Abu
Huraira
Allah's Messenger
(saws) said, "Allah, The High and Exalted He is, said, 'I have prepared
for My pious slaves things (in Paradise) which have never been seen by an eye,
or heard by an ear, or (even) imagined by a human being!'
If the Lord Most Gracious would have revealed what else (in
addition to what a human being covets and loves in his inherent and innate
nature) would be made available to them in
Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 50 Surah Qaaf verse 35:
There they (the fortunate men and women of
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due to Allah’s Assistance and Guidance, and whatever of error is of me
alone. Allah Alone Knows Best and He is
the Only Source of Strength.
Your brother and
well wisher in Islam,
Burhan
Wister