بسم الله الرحمـن الرحيم
Allah جلَّ جَلَالَهُ says:
مَّثَلُ الْجَنَّةِ
الَّتِي وُعِدَ الْمُتَّقُونَ ۖ فِيهَا أَنْهَارٌ مِّن مَّاءٍ غَيْرِ آسِنٍ وَأَنْهَارٌ
مِّن لَّبَنٍ لَّمْ يَتَغَيَّرْ طَعْمُهُ وَأَنْهَارٌ مِّنْ خَمْرٍ لَّذَّةٍ لِّلشَّارِبِينَ
وَأَنْهَارٌ مِّنْ عَسَلٍ مُّصَفًّى ۖ وَلَهُمْ فِيهَا مِن كُلِّ الثَّمَرَاتِ وَمَغْفِرَةٌ
مِّن رَّبِّهِمْ ۖ كَمَنْ هُوَ خَالِدٌ فِي النَّارِ وَسُقُوا مَاءً حَمِيمًا فَقَطَّعَ
أَمْعَاءَهُمْ
“A parable of the Garden, which is promised to the Righteous, therein are
rivers of water unpolluted, rivers of milk, the taste of which doesn’t change, rivers
of wine, delicious for the drinkers, and rivers of purified honey. Therein for
them is every kind of fruit and forgiveness from their Lord. (Is this) like he
who will abide forever in the Fire, and they will be given to drink boiling
water so it cuts to pieces their intestines?”
(Surah 47:15)
This of course is the parable or
example of the Garden (Paradise), Gan Eden or Jannaatu-Adn. As I have
explained in previous entries, the Paradise in the world to come shall be
located in the Holy Land. This is why the one is considered a مثل (parable or example) of the other. The
Torah too repeatedly describes the Promised Land as overflowing with “milk and
honey”.
It is also suggested that the things
mentioned about Paradise in this Ayah are a similitude of what will actually be
there, in other words, the rivers of water, milk, wine and honey are a parable
of what truly awaits the Righteous. This is what the Quran infers when it is
stated:
وَبَشِّرِ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَعَمِلُوا
الصَّالِحَاتِ أَنَّ لَهُمْ جَنَّاتٍ تَجْرِي مِن تَحْتِهَا الْأَنْهَارُ ۖ كُلَّمَا
رُزِقُوا مِنْهَا مِن ثَمَرَةٍ رِّزْقًا ۙ قَالُوا هَـٰذَا الَّذِي رُزِقْنَا مِن قَبْلُ
ۖ وَأُتُوا بِهِ مُتَشَابِهًا ۖ
“And give
glad tidings to those who believe and do righteous deeds that for them are
Gardens beneath which Rivers flow. Everytime they are provided from it of fruit
as provision they will say: ‘This is what we were provided with from before’
And they will be given therefrom (things) in resemblance.”
(Surah
2:25)
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