1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:13,640 Hello, everyone. 2 00:00:13,640 --> 00:00:36,480 Paradise has a constantly temperate climate. 3 00:00:36,480 --> 00:00:40,160 It is neither hot nor cold, but always warm. 4 00:00:40,160 --> 00:00:47,080 There is no day and night, but very faint images reminiscent of day and night will form for 5 00:00:47,080 --> 00:00:58,360 us to enjoy. 6 00:00:58,360 --> 00:01:04,020 People speak of different paradises, the paradise of Adnan, the paradise of Firdaus, but these 7 00:01:04,020 --> 00:01:08,340 may be different parts of paradise because everyone will be in the same paradise, in the 8 00:01:08,340 --> 00:01:12,700 same environment, but people will have different degrees of pleasure. 9 00:01:12,700 --> 00:01:18,660 People will like a flower or a woman or food according to their own inner powers, to their 10 00:01:18,660 --> 00:01:23,100 own power of faith, to the power Allah creates within them. 11 00:01:23,100 --> 00:01:26,580 Their delight will differ, but people will not know that. 12 00:01:26,580 --> 00:01:29,480 They will not know they take pleasure differently. 13 00:01:29,480 --> 00:01:33,840 They will imagine they get the same level of pleasure. 14 00:01:33,840 --> 00:01:38,480 Cennetul Naim vardır, Naim cennetleri vardır, Cennetul Firdaus vardır, Firdaus cennetleri 15 00:01:38,480 --> 00:01:39,480 ve Cennetul Adnan. 16 00:01:39,480 --> 00:01:45,140 Yes, there is the Cennet al-Naim, the paradise of Naim. 17 00:01:45,140 --> 00:01:49,140 There is the paradise of Firdaus and the paradise of Adnan. 18 00:01:49,140 --> 00:01:53,000 But these paradises are all together and in the same place. 19 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:58,600 They are like heavenly strata, like strata placed one on top of the other. 20 00:01:58,600 --> 00:02:04,760 It's a delightful world consisting of lovely homes, glorious greenery, magnificently attractive 21 00:02:04,760 --> 00:02:10,860 people, splendid vehicles and foods, excellent clothing and delightful perfumes and glorious 22 00:02:10,860 --> 00:02:12,680 objects. 23 00:02:12,680 --> 00:02:18,080 But we will see all these in the same way we do in this world, of course, as images. 24 00:02:18,080 --> 00:02:20,620 But we will imagine they really exist. 25 00:02:20,620 --> 00:02:23,300 We will imagine they exist as we do in this world. 26 00:02:23,300 --> 00:02:29,220 I mean, their real counterparts will still exist on the outside, but we will only have 27 00:02:29,220 --> 00:02:32,280 direct experience with their images. 28 00:02:32,280 --> 00:02:39,300 There are many chambers and pavilions in paradise, one lovelier than the other. 29 00:02:39,300 --> 00:02:43,660 For example, a mansion will have many rooms in it and there will be many blessings in 30 00:02:43,660 --> 00:02:47,220 each room, a whole string of blessings. 31 00:02:47,220 --> 00:02:53,180 Imagine a city where you turn onto a road and enter a house and then the rooms in that 32 00:02:53,180 --> 00:02:58,540 house, you open a shelf and see something in it, such a chain of blessings. 33 00:02:58,540 --> 00:03:04,800 Well, each of the chambers in the mansions of paradise is like a whole separate world. 34 00:03:04,800 --> 00:03:10,120 When you enter a room, the objects in it are a whole separate world of their own. 35 00:03:10,120 --> 00:03:12,940 We are told that women have clothes to wear. 36 00:03:12,940 --> 00:03:19,420 They wear seven different layers of clothing, though all seven are visible to the onlooker. 37 00:03:19,420 --> 00:03:24,040 For example, one can see the first layer and if one wishes, one can see the second and 38 00:03:24,040 --> 00:03:25,040 the third. 39 00:03:25,040 --> 00:03:29,940 That is, one can see all her seven different layers of clothing. 40 00:03:29,940 --> 00:03:35,360 Men can also be seen with seven different sets of clothes. 41 00:03:35,360 --> 00:03:51,200 When believers go to the hereafter, they will take their place alongside all the prophets 42 00:03:51,200 --> 00:03:52,480 and teachers. 43 00:03:52,480 --> 00:03:57,980 For example, our Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, the beauty, will be there like a great light 44 00:03:57,980 --> 00:04:00,500 before the Muslim community. 45 00:04:00,500 --> 00:04:06,540 Almighty Allah will ask whether or not such and such a person should enter paradise. 46 00:04:06,540 --> 00:04:11,300 This is intended as a compliment to our Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam and for that person 47 00:04:11,300 --> 00:04:14,640 to taste the love of our Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam. 48 00:04:14,640 --> 00:04:18,180 Otherwise someone destined for paradise will enter it. 49 00:04:18,180 --> 00:04:23,980 But a style as if they enter paradise by way of our Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam is employed 50 00:04:23,980 --> 00:04:24,980 there. 51 00:04:24,980 --> 00:04:28,600 That is known as intercession, inshaAllah. 52 00:04:28,600 --> 00:04:34,560 Our Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam will say, O Lord, that is a good person, I intercede 53 00:04:34,560 --> 00:04:35,560 for him. 54 00:04:35,560 --> 00:04:38,520 He is a believer and very devout. 55 00:04:38,520 --> 00:04:41,800 In that way he enters the paradise with him, inshaAllah. 56 00:04:41,800 --> 00:04:53,300 That is intended as a beauty, inshaAllah. 57 00:04:53,300 --> 00:04:58,440 Let's take the example of a Jew who believes in the oneness of Allah, their Salat and prostration 58 00:04:58,440 --> 00:04:59,440 in the Torah. 59 00:04:59,440 --> 00:05:04,520 He has a strong fear of Allah and is punctilious about what is lawful and unlawful and he has 60 00:05:04,520 --> 00:05:06,740 not become acquainted with Islam. 61 00:05:06,740 --> 00:05:11,280 These people are known as the Al-Hal-Fatrat, people of interregnum. 62 00:05:11,280 --> 00:05:16,060 If such people are very sincere, very honest in the sight of Allah, one may hope that they 63 00:05:16,060 --> 00:05:17,460 may enter paradise. 64 00:05:17,460 --> 00:05:22,720 We cannot say they cannot go to paradise because according to the words of the Quran, Allah's 65 00:05:22,720 --> 00:05:24,720 honest servants will be saved. 66 00:05:24,720 --> 00:05:29,220 Allah has provided only one measure and no more, sincerity. 67 00:05:29,220 --> 00:05:34,500 If Allah regards someone as very sincere, they may of course hope to enter paradise, even 68 00:05:34,500 --> 00:05:37,460 if they are acquainted with Islam and the Quran. 69 00:05:37,460 --> 00:05:42,040 It is impossible for anyone acquainted with the Quran to hold any other view because the 70 00:05:42,040 --> 00:05:43,400 Quran is so clear. 71 00:05:43,400 --> 00:05:50,400 An honest person will immediately admit the fact when he looks at the Quran. 72 00:05:50,400 --> 00:06:01,220 There is a verse of the Quran which says, the religion with Allah is Islam, one religion. 73 00:06:01,220 --> 00:06:02,960 Islam is the one religion. 74 00:06:02,960 --> 00:06:05,860 But Christianity believes in the Trinity. 75 00:06:05,860 --> 00:06:09,360 Allah strongly condemns the Trinity belief in the Quran. 76 00:06:09,360 --> 00:06:13,120 They say that Allah is free, Allah is beyond this. 77 00:06:13,120 --> 00:06:15,100 And that is out of the question. 78 00:06:15,100 --> 00:06:18,020 That is incompatible with monotheism. 79 00:06:18,020 --> 00:06:20,060 We must say that Allah is one. 80 00:06:20,060 --> 00:06:22,900 It is most important to say that Allah is one. 81 00:06:22,900 --> 00:06:27,020 At the moment they are making a very grave error. 82 00:06:27,020 --> 00:06:31,300 That is what it means by the Prophet Jesus, peace be upon him, smashing the idols and slaying 83 00:06:31,300 --> 00:06:33,300 the pig when he returns. 84 00:06:33,300 --> 00:06:38,600 It means he will eliminate belief in the Trinity and will eliminate heretical beliefs. 85 00:06:38,600 --> 00:06:44,440 And that he will pronounce what is lawful and unlawful on the basis of the Quran. 86 00:06:44,440 --> 00:06:48,900 But the Quran says, I seek refuge in Allah from the cursed Satan. 87 00:06:48,900 --> 00:06:53,620 Only my servants who are righteous in the sight of Allah will be saved. 88 00:06:53,620 --> 00:06:58,760 One has to have sincerity, true sincerity. 89 00:06:58,760 --> 00:07:00,440 Being a Muslim is not enough. 90 00:07:00,440 --> 00:07:02,940 A Muslim also has to have sincerity. 91 00:07:02,940 --> 00:07:07,520 But even if the people of the book hold out against the true nature of the Quran, the ruling 92 00:07:07,520 --> 00:07:09,900 in the Quran is clear. 93 00:07:09,900 --> 00:07:11,400 Allah knows the truth. 94 00:07:11,400 --> 00:07:17,700 But if they reject the Quran out of pride and lack of consideration, they cannot be Muslims. 95 00:07:17,700 --> 00:07:22,460 But for instance, a person doesn't know about the Quran, is ignorant, a Christian. 96 00:07:22,460 --> 00:07:27,460 He believes in the oneness of Allah and performs his Salat, prayer to the best of his knowledge 97 00:07:27,460 --> 00:07:29,560 of the New Testament. 98 00:07:29,560 --> 00:07:32,380 The New Testament speaks of Salat. 99 00:07:32,380 --> 00:07:39,700 He fasts, is careful over what is lawful and unlawful and believes in the oneness of Allah. 100 00:07:39,700 --> 00:07:44,740 One may hope for such people, if someone has never been told about the religion, then 101 00:07:44,740 --> 00:07:47,900 he is one of the people of interregnum. 102 00:07:47,900 --> 00:07:54,060 One may hope that such a person will be able to enter paradise if he is very, very sincere. 103 00:07:54,060 --> 00:07:59,620 One may have hope for a person who has no knowledge, who has never been told or taught 104 00:07:59,620 --> 00:08:01,100 about the religion. 105 00:08:01,100 --> 00:08:06,880 But if someone knowingly and deliberately insists on rejecting the Quran, even though he knows 106 00:08:06,880 --> 00:08:21,540 it is true, then the pronouncement of the Quran on that is clear too. 107 00:08:21,540 --> 00:08:24,360 People like very bright things, do they not? 108 00:08:24,360 --> 00:08:27,020 That is why women's clothes are very eye-catching. 109 00:08:27,020 --> 00:08:30,680 For example, a diamond on a ring immediately catches the eye. 110 00:08:30,680 --> 00:08:34,340 This stems from a predisposition to paradise in the human soul. 111 00:08:34,340 --> 00:08:36,620 It's given us as an instinct. 112 00:08:36,620 --> 00:08:39,720 It's Allah who causes us to love those gems. 113 00:08:39,720 --> 00:08:44,940 Because we are already instinctively prepared for paradise, we are literally hypnotized when 114 00:08:44,940 --> 00:08:46,580 we see them. 115 00:08:46,580 --> 00:08:52,600 Paradise enters our minds and we subconsciously delight in it, albeit all unawares. 116 00:08:52,600 --> 00:08:56,980 When we see a green place, for instance, we like it because of a predisposition to paradise 117 00:08:56,980 --> 00:09:01,040 in us and we think of ever more perfect versions. 118 00:09:01,040 --> 00:09:05,280 Our love for those precious stones also comes from our heavenly instinct. 119 00:09:05,280 --> 00:09:09,020 It's a pleasure that stems from knowing paradise. 120 00:09:09,020 --> 00:09:13,100 When people pick up an apple, it is never a perfect apple, of course. 121 00:09:13,100 --> 00:09:15,980 They know there will always be the best one. 122 00:09:15,980 --> 00:09:22,040 Whoever you ask will know that there can always be a more perfect apple or cherry or banana. 123 00:09:22,040 --> 00:09:26,920 Nobody totally likes his home or clothing and they always have the idea of something even 124 00:09:26,920 --> 00:09:27,920 better. 125 00:09:27,920 --> 00:09:31,580 This is a predisposition to paradise that is encoded in people. 126 00:09:31,580 --> 00:09:35,220 The human soul is encoded with a predisposition for paradise. 127 00:09:35,220 --> 00:09:40,140 A person is never satisfied with anything and never really and truly likes it unless he 128 00:09:40,140 --> 00:09:42,240 finds its version in paradise. 129 00:09:42,240 --> 00:09:45,000 No woman in this world is truly beautiful. 130 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:47,820 People will always feel something is missing with her. 131 00:09:47,820 --> 00:09:51,700 That is, they intensely feel something absent in her. 132 00:09:51,700 --> 00:09:56,500 Nobody in this world ever finds the woman he is looking for in the physical sense. 133 00:09:56,500 --> 00:10:00,520 Though of course, there are women who are very splendid in her spirit. 134 00:10:00,520 --> 00:10:03,880 There are people who are very beautiful in soul and character. 135 00:10:03,880 --> 00:10:07,320 But there is much more of what people like in paradise. 136 00:10:07,320 --> 00:10:11,440 Allah creates these things only very seldom in this world. 137 00:10:11,440 --> 00:10:14,120 For example, there is the real gold in paradise. 138 00:10:14,120 --> 00:10:16,700 Gold that is used is a great deal. 139 00:10:16,700 --> 00:10:21,160 For example, there is very little gold in the gilding on that wood there, but it catches 140 00:10:21,160 --> 00:10:23,340 the eye and we really like it. 141 00:10:23,340 --> 00:10:29,140 We really enjoy seeing some gold leaf being used or a piece of gold thread embroidery. 142 00:10:29,140 --> 00:10:34,320 There is very very much embroidery in paradise that is also created in our brains. 143 00:10:34,320 --> 00:10:39,220 It does exist on the outside, but it is created in our brains and gives us much pleasure. 144 00:10:39,220 --> 00:10:42,140 One of the delightful aspects of paradise is this. 145 00:10:42,140 --> 00:10:46,700 There are mentions in paradise that someone on the outside can see inside, and someone 146 00:10:46,700 --> 00:10:49,040 on the outside can see the outside. 147 00:10:49,040 --> 00:10:53,360 One feature of paradise is that there is crystal all over the place. 148 00:10:53,360 --> 00:10:56,440 Light is a beauty that is much used of in paradise. 149 00:10:56,440 --> 00:10:57,900 Everything sparkles. 150 00:10:57,900 --> 00:11:00,660 Everything is finely embroidered and detailed. 151 00:11:00,660 --> 00:11:02,320 People are literally dazzled in paradise. 152 00:11:02,320 --> 00:11:06,220 It is a beauty that is what people always seek, if you notice. 153 00:11:06,220 --> 00:11:10,080 They always seek bright, sparkling water, transparency. 154 00:11:10,080 --> 00:11:15,380 That stems from a subconscious predisposition to paradise that Allah bestows. 155 00:11:15,380 --> 00:11:17,820 One looks for a lake, albeit a small one. 156 00:11:17,820 --> 00:11:20,280 One looks for a river, though very small one. 157 00:11:20,280 --> 00:11:26,220 As long as there is water, people don't know, but that's an instinct, a predisposition to paradise. 158 00:11:26,220 --> 00:11:30,380 For example, even a bright, sparkling, small gem hypnotizes one. 159 00:11:30,380 --> 00:11:32,280 This is a quality of paradise. 160 00:11:32,280 --> 00:11:44,280 Of course, a Muslim will be very tranquil, someone who thinks very deeply, who is forgiving, affectionate, 161 00:11:44,280 --> 00:11:51,140 considerate of those around, who strives for their happiness, is clean and well groomed, 162 00:11:51,140 --> 00:11:54,540 who makes his surroundings please enter. 163 00:11:54,540 --> 00:11:56,680 At home, he beautifies his house. 164 00:11:56,680 --> 00:12:02,400 He strives to ensure his body is well maintained, that his hair and clothing are well groomed, 165 00:12:02,400 --> 00:12:08,080 to speak nicely, to have pleasant facial expressions, to have a pleasant voice, for his home to have 166 00:12:08,080 --> 00:12:15,160 a pleasant atmosphere, to have good food and music around, and for everything to be agreeable. 167 00:12:15,160 --> 00:12:21,620 Because the believer's soul cries out, paradise, paradise, it desires it, and it constantly 168 00:12:21,620 --> 00:12:23,740 seeks it in this world. 169 00:12:23,740 --> 00:12:29,740 When the believer desires that, Allah makes everywhere a paradise for him. 170 00:12:29,740 --> 00:12:32,280 Constant perfection is a Muslim's ideal. 171 00:12:32,280 --> 00:12:37,900 People from paradise come here, people worthy of paradise, and those deserving of hell come 172 00:12:37,900 --> 00:12:41,500 from hell, because this world is but a single moment. 173 00:12:41,500 --> 00:12:46,460 I'm saying that, for example, our Prophet sallallahu aleyhi ve sellem was already in paradise. 174 00:12:46,460 --> 00:12:49,160 That is, he didn't go to paradise only later. 175 00:12:49,160 --> 00:12:52,340 And our Prophet sallallahu aleyhi ve sellem is in paradise now. 176 00:12:52,340 --> 00:12:56,740 Our Prophet sallallahu aleyhi ve sellem was in paradise before coming here, before he was 177 00:12:56,740 --> 00:12:57,740 born. 178 00:12:57,740 --> 00:12:59,960 Therefore, he came to this world from paradise. 179 00:12:59,960 --> 00:13:25,620 People can't be happy if they go directly to paradise. 180 00:13:25,620 --> 00:13:28,620 They must absolutely go through the test in this world. 181 00:13:28,620 --> 00:13:33,700 If they go to paradise directly, they will be in the same position as Adam and Eve. 182 00:13:33,700 --> 00:13:35,440 They were not happy in paradise. 183 00:13:35,440 --> 00:13:37,200 They were not happy in that sense. 184 00:13:37,200 --> 00:13:39,360 They looked for novelty. 185 00:13:39,360 --> 00:13:43,180 They did not and were unable to keep their word to Allah. 186 00:13:43,180 --> 00:13:49,780 But after undergoing this training, after experiencing suffering, hardship, difficulties, loyalty, 187 00:13:49,780 --> 00:13:58,860 and all kinds of moral virtue, they then exhibit perfect moral values in paradise until eternity, 188 00:13:58,860 --> 00:14:04,100 and the inhabitants of paradise are constantly shown images of hell. 189 00:14:04,100 --> 00:14:09,200 They are shown on a screen that ensures they constantly give thanks. 190 00:14:09,200 --> 00:14:11,020 Adam was never shown hell. 191 00:14:11,020 --> 00:14:15,140 He didn't see the screen with hell on it when he was in paradise. 192 00:14:15,140 --> 00:14:18,260 If he had, of course, Allah appreciates it. 193 00:14:18,260 --> 00:14:20,620 But who knows how he would have behaved? 194 00:14:20,620 --> 00:14:22,760 But that was his destiny. 195 00:14:22,760 --> 00:14:27,840 That is why people absolutely have to go through this training and be aware of hell for the perfection 196 00:14:27,840 --> 00:14:33,780 of paradise, and in order to be happy there, Satan is insistently maintaining this claim, 197 00:14:33,780 --> 00:14:37,980 this obstinacy by drawing people into madness and irreligion. 198 00:14:37,980 --> 00:14:40,960 For every irreligious person, he tells Allah, 199 00:14:40,960 --> 00:14:42,620 Look what I have done. 200 00:14:42,620 --> 00:14:48,320 Look what the descendants of Adam you wanted me to prostrate myself before are doing. 201 00:14:48,320 --> 00:14:54,600 Satan's aim is a classic model of pride and immorality, and he is still doing it today. 202 00:14:54,600 --> 00:14:58,480 People who entered paradise directly would have behaved badly. 203 00:14:58,480 --> 00:15:04,480 Allah put Adam and Eve in paradise, for example, and he put Satan in paradise, and you know what happened. 204 00:15:04,480 --> 00:15:07,200 That's what happens if you go there without training. 205 00:15:07,200 --> 00:15:08,560 Allah shows us that. 206 00:15:08,560 --> 00:15:12,200 He says in the Quran that Adam and Eve were disobeyed. 207 00:15:12,200 --> 00:15:15,700 That he did not regard them as having a stable character. 208 00:15:15,700 --> 00:15:17,480 They were not loyal to their work. 209 00:15:17,480 --> 00:15:20,480 But Satan behaves totally psychopathically. 210 00:15:20,480 --> 00:15:23,200 But after training, people are proper believers. 211 00:15:23,200 --> 00:15:24,800 In the Quran, Allah says, 212 00:15:24,800 --> 00:15:27,440 I seek refuge in Allah from the cursed Satan. 213 00:15:27,440 --> 00:15:30,600 Return to your Lord, well-pleasing and well-pleased. 214 00:15:30,600 --> 00:15:33,560 Enter among my servants, enter my garden. 215 00:15:33,560 --> 00:15:37,080 Because Allah says, O self at rest and at peace. 216 00:15:37,080 --> 00:15:39,640 That is how it starts, that means stabilized. 217 00:15:39,640 --> 00:15:45,080 We are balanced out there, and we learn moral virtues, love, affection, fortitude, and courage. 218 00:15:45,080 --> 00:15:49,080 These will all be the subjects of conversations when we go to paradise. 219 00:15:49,080 --> 00:15:52,480 He says that, they sit on thrones and hold conversations. 220 00:15:52,480 --> 00:15:54,680 What do people talk about in paradise? 221 00:15:54,680 --> 00:15:56,480 Things that are done in this world. 222 00:15:56,480 --> 00:15:59,080 Details and images from there will be shown to them. 223 00:15:59,080 --> 00:16:09,480 We will discuss the love there, how they strove and struggled, how they exhibited proper moral virtues, and what the prophets Moses, peace be upon him, and Jesus, peace be upon him, did. 224 00:16:09,480 --> 00:16:15,880 That's why we will love these excellent people very much, these holy ones. 225 00:16:15,880 --> 00:16:20,880 I seek refuge in Allah from the cursed Satan, O self at rest and at peace. 226 00:16:20,880 --> 00:16:27,480 Almighty Allah says, Return to your Lord, well-pleasing and well-pleased, having attained balance and moderation. 227 00:16:27,480 --> 00:16:30,480 Enter among my servants, enter my garden. 228 00:16:30,480 --> 00:16:31,480 What does this mean? 229 00:16:31,480 --> 00:16:35,480 It means we will enter hereafter with the training we have received. 230 00:16:35,480 --> 00:16:39,480 But Satan will not intervene, meaning that is something extra. 231 00:16:39,480 --> 00:16:43,480 There will be nothing like Satan's giving us forgetfulness or doubts. 232 00:16:43,480 --> 00:16:49,480 We will go with the same conception of love, affection, and care that we have here now. 233 00:16:49,480 --> 00:17:02,480 Of course, nobody can know whether anyone will go to paradise or hell. 234 00:17:02,480 --> 00:17:06,480 You know how they say that such a person is destined for paradise or hell. 235 00:17:06,480 --> 00:17:12,480 The person who says that doesn't know his destiny, doesn't know whether he will go to paradise or hell. 236 00:17:12,480 --> 00:17:15,480 He may go to paradise or he may go to hell. 237 00:17:15,480 --> 00:17:17,480 That is made clear at one's last breath. 238 00:17:17,480 --> 00:17:21,480 It's ordained by Allah and can never be established beforehand. 239 00:17:21,480 --> 00:17:25,480 Sometimes someone we imagine to be very saintly may go to hell. 240 00:17:25,480 --> 00:17:30,480 Or someone may go to paradise who one never imagined would ever make it. 241 00:17:30,480 --> 00:17:32,480 In other words, it can never be clear. 242 00:17:32,480 --> 00:17:37,480 It's therefore unlawful to issue pronouncements about people on Allah's behalf. 243 00:17:37,480 --> 00:17:39,480 No Muslim can say such things. 244 00:17:39,480 --> 00:17:54,480 In the absence of any clear revelation, in the absence of any prophets with books of revelation saying that someone will go to paradise, nobody can be certain of the future. 245 00:17:54,480 --> 00:18:07,480 But even though our prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, was told he will be going to paradise, he was still punctualious about his religious observances and obeying Allah's commands. 246 00:18:07,480 --> 00:18:09,480 Muslims will be like that. 247 00:18:09,480 --> 00:18:14,480 They will fear Allah saying they have a 50-50 chance of going to paradise or to hell. 248 00:18:14,480 --> 00:18:17,480 This is also the root of love and passion. 249 00:18:17,480 --> 00:18:20,480 We learn this passion through love of Allah. 250 00:18:20,480 --> 00:18:23,480 Fear of Allah is the origin of profound love. 251 00:18:23,480 --> 00:18:36,480 We will constantly praise Allah in the hereafter. 252 00:18:36,480 --> 00:18:37,480 Thanks be to Allah. 253 00:18:37,480 --> 00:18:38,480 Alhamdulillah. 254 00:18:38,480 --> 00:18:40,480 Allah is beyond any flaws. 255 00:18:40,480 --> 00:18:42,480 We will each time be in awe. 256 00:18:42,480 --> 00:18:44,480 O Lord, we love you very much, we will say. 257 00:18:44,480 --> 00:18:46,480 We will say, we are in love with you. 258 00:18:46,480 --> 00:18:48,480 Constant expressions of joy, Alhamdulillah. 259 00:18:48,480 --> 00:18:50,480 How great is Allah, we will say. 260 00:18:50,480 --> 00:18:52,480 We will constantly praise him. 261 00:18:52,480 --> 00:18:54,480 Praise of Allah will predominate in paradise. 262 00:18:54,480 --> 00:18:58,480 But there will be no Salat, regular prayer, no fasting. 263 00:18:58,480 --> 00:19:02,480 There will be no giving alms, because everywhere will already be so wealthy. 264 00:19:02,480 --> 00:19:07,480 But fear of Allah will persist, because people will constantly see hell. 265 00:19:07,480 --> 00:19:11,480 But there will be no question of believers going to hell, as believers fear Allah. 266 00:19:11,480 --> 00:19:14,480 They will fear Allah under whatever circumstances. 267 00:19:14,480 --> 00:19:16,480 They will fear Allah for all eternity. 268 00:19:16,480 --> 00:19:20,480 But they will have a huge appreciation of paradise, inshaAllah. 269 00:19:22,480 --> 00:19:35,480 Yes, our Prophet saw the realm of hereafter. 270 00:19:35,480 --> 00:19:37,480 But Allah did not show him paradise. 271 00:19:37,480 --> 00:19:39,480 Allah showed him hell. 272 00:19:39,480 --> 00:19:43,480 He saw hell and gave thanks to Allah and made his comparisons. 273 00:19:43,480 --> 00:19:48,480 Because having seen paradise, the influence of this world may be quite burdensome. 274 00:19:48,480 --> 00:19:53,480 That is, having a physical liking for other people or this world may be very difficult, 275 00:19:53,480 --> 00:19:56,480 because one will have compared them with paradise. 276 00:19:56,480 --> 00:20:11,480 That is why our Prophet was not shown paradise while he was in this world. 277 00:20:11,480 --> 00:20:16,480 In paradise, will women be married to their husbands in this world? 278 00:20:16,480 --> 00:20:26,480 Of course, Allah says they will be under the trees with their husbands and children. 279 00:20:26,480 --> 00:20:29,480 Of course they will be with their husbands. 280 00:20:29,480 --> 00:20:34,480 What if she has been married two or three times? 281 00:20:34,480 --> 00:20:38,480 Allah will give her the person with the greatest fear of Allah, 282 00:20:38,480 --> 00:20:41,480 he whom Allah approves of most. 283 00:20:41,480 --> 00:20:43,480 That is Allah's criterion. 284 00:20:43,480 --> 00:20:48,480 We must look for the greatest measure of his approval in all things. 285 00:20:48,480 --> 00:20:55,480 I mean, I could come here, or sit at home, or else go out to the shops and talk to people. 286 00:20:55,480 --> 00:21:01,480 I think Allah will most approve of my coming here, and I think I am doing the right thing. 287 00:21:01,480 --> 00:21:08,480 In other words, something has its most truthful and very best form, that is what Allah wants. 288 00:21:08,480 --> 00:21:13,480 The very best of something is what most meets with Allah's approval. 289 00:21:13,480 --> 00:21:17,480 That will also be the criterion for spouses in the hereafter. 290 00:21:17,480 --> 00:21:21,480 Allah will give them to the person who most seeks his approval. 291 00:21:21,480 --> 00:21:27,480 If a person's spouse is pure and immaculate, and if that person has moral virtue and is a believer, 292 00:21:27,480 --> 00:21:30,480 then of course they will be together in paradise. 293 00:21:30,480 --> 00:21:32,480 Almighty Allah makes that clear in verses. 294 00:21:32,480 --> 00:21:35,480 He says they are together with their spouses and children. 295 00:21:35,480 --> 00:21:37,480 Of course they will be together in the hereafter. 296 00:21:37,480 --> 00:21:39,480 People will have children in the hereafter. 297 00:21:39,480 --> 00:21:44,480 A person will be able to give birth whenever she wants a baby, after a very brief pregnancy. 298 00:21:44,480 --> 00:21:48,480 But it will involve no pain and will happen right away. 299 00:21:48,480 --> 00:21:50,480 It will happen the moment they desire it. 300 00:21:50,480 --> 00:21:53,480 That's the future of paradise. 301 00:21:53,480 --> 00:21:59,480 Let me say that what counts is one's position regarding faith in Allah, one's degree of belief in Allah. 302 00:21:59,480 --> 00:22:04,480 It doesn't matter to Allah whose spouse it is. 303 00:22:04,480 --> 00:22:12,480 For example, Abu Leheb's wife shared the same mindset and mentality for a rich reason put in the same place. 304 00:22:12,480 --> 00:22:17,480 But Pharaoh's wife was a believer and a chaste woman, and one worthy of paradise. 305 00:22:17,480 --> 00:22:20,480 She left him and didn't espouse his views. 306 00:22:20,480 --> 00:22:23,480 She didn't espouse his logic, his immoral philosophy. 307 00:22:23,480 --> 00:22:28,480 She followed along with the Prophet Moses, peace be upon him, and Allah has sent her to paradise. 308 00:22:28,480 --> 00:22:34,480 The Prophet Noah's wife, for instance, was a most abnormal woman, and Allah has put her in hell. 309 00:22:34,480 --> 00:22:37,480 Allah separated her from Noah, peace be upon him. 310 00:22:37,480 --> 00:22:40,480 Lot's wife was the same, and an unbeliever. 311 00:22:40,480 --> 00:22:41,480 Allah separated them. 312 00:22:41,480 --> 00:22:47,480 We can see from these few examples that it is fear of Allah to which Allah attaches importance. 313 00:22:47,480 --> 00:22:52,480 For example, an immoral person has a wife, a chaste believer. 314 00:22:52,480 --> 00:22:56,480 That woman leaves her husband, and Allah doesn't regard their union as valid. 315 00:22:56,480 --> 00:22:58,480 He separates them in the hereafter. 316 00:22:58,480 --> 00:23:04,480 She counts as single in the hereafter, and Allah will marry her to a male believer who has fear of Allah, 317 00:23:04,480 --> 00:23:08,480 whoever he regards as most desirous of his approval. 318 00:23:08,480 --> 00:23:13,480 Therefore, Allah's approval is the main criterion in such matters. 319 00:23:22,480 --> 00:23:24,480 In fact, Allah shows what we are. 320 00:23:24,480 --> 00:23:28,480 Allah appears to test what we are, but that is not actually the case. 321 00:23:28,480 --> 00:23:34,480 Looked at it in terms of ilm al-ladun, the knowledge of divine providence, that is not the case. 322 00:23:34,480 --> 00:23:36,480 Because Allah knew what we would do. 323 00:23:36,480 --> 00:23:38,480 He has sent us to paradise or to hell. 324 00:23:38,480 --> 00:23:43,480 So there is actually no question of being tested, of Allah investigating and learning about us. 325 00:23:43,480 --> 00:23:45,480 Allah already knows about us. 326 00:23:45,480 --> 00:23:48,480 He shows us to ourselves, shows us what we are. 327 00:23:48,480 --> 00:23:51,480 And we will experience the joy of that in paradise. 328 00:23:51,480 --> 00:23:55,480 We will say, we rendered such and such a service, did this and that. 329 00:23:55,480 --> 00:23:58,480 But in fact, it is Allah who engages in these deeds. 330 00:23:58,480 --> 00:24:03,480 For example, you are now exhibiting virtuous behavior, and inshaAllah you will go to paradise. 331 00:24:03,480 --> 00:24:09,480 If I see you have gone to paradise, then Allah willing, I will love you even more there. 332 00:24:09,480 --> 00:24:12,480 Because I will see the sacrifices you have made. 333 00:24:12,480 --> 00:24:15,480 I will see your virtues and lovable nature. 334 00:24:15,480 --> 00:24:17,480 I will know them in this world. 335 00:24:17,480 --> 00:24:21,480 Since I will go there with that knowledge, it will remain with me forever. 336 00:24:21,480 --> 00:24:24,480 And I will therefore love you forever with that knowledge. 337 00:24:24,480 --> 00:24:30,480 For example, one has a spouse, one sees their moral virtue, and that stays with one forever. 338 00:24:30,480 --> 00:24:35,480 That's why a man loves his wife more than he does Huris. 339 00:24:35,480 --> 00:24:37,480 It is because of that knowledge. 340 00:24:37,480 --> 00:24:46,480 Because he has seen her altruism, her courage, her fortitude, her kindness, her religious observances, and all other kinds of behavior. 341 00:24:46,480 --> 00:24:51,480 Since he has absorbed that information, it will remain with him for all eternity. 342 00:24:51,480 --> 00:24:54,480 And he will also love that knowledge. 343 00:24:54,480 --> 00:24:56,480 But that's not the case with Huris. 344 00:24:56,480 --> 00:24:59,480 He sees no virtue in Huris in this world. 345 00:24:59,480 --> 00:25:02,480 Huris have to be virtuous in the hereafter. 346 00:25:02,480 --> 00:25:05,480 That's why people love their wives far more in the hereafter. 347 00:25:05,480 --> 00:25:08,480 Because they see much more manifestations of Allah in her. 348 00:25:08,480 --> 00:25:10,480 They are in a more acceptable position. 349 00:25:10,480 --> 00:25:16,480 For example, our Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, refers to himself and adds 350 00:25:16,480 --> 00:25:23,480 Hamza peace be upon him, Hz Mehdi peace be upon him, and Hz Ali peace be upon him, and the companions saying, 351 00:25:23,480 --> 00:25:27,480 We are the Seyyid, that is the lords, of the people of paradise. 352 00:25:27,480 --> 00:25:28,480 Why? 353 00:25:28,480 --> 00:25:29,480 Because they all suffered. 354 00:25:29,480 --> 00:25:31,480 We will love them for that in the hereafter. 355 00:25:31,480 --> 00:25:36,480 Why do we admire the Prophet Joseph peace be upon him so much in the hereafter? 356 00:25:36,480 --> 00:25:37,480 Because he suffered hardship. 357 00:25:37,480 --> 00:25:40,480 Why do we admire the Prophet Moses peace be upon him? 358 00:25:40,480 --> 00:25:42,480 Because he suffered hardship. 359 00:25:42,480 --> 00:25:45,480 Because they displayed a powerful love of Allah. 360 00:25:45,480 --> 00:25:48,480 Because they felt such an intense and fervent love. 361 00:25:48,480 --> 00:25:52,480 For example, when we look at the gardens of paradise, we will lose our senses from love. 362 00:25:52,480 --> 00:25:55,480 The same is with its furniture, food and drink. 363 00:25:55,480 --> 00:26:00,480 But the truth of the matter is that all of these things will be bestowed as images. 364 00:26:00,480 --> 00:26:02,480 But people will not know they are images. 365 00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:04,480 They will be bestowed in the greatest clarity. 366 00:26:04,480 --> 00:26:08,480 One will be unable even to wonder whether they might be mere images. 367 00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:10,480 Nobody will have the power to do that. 368 00:26:10,480 --> 00:26:12,480 But these things will be given as images. 369 00:26:12,480 --> 00:26:16,480 They will exist on the outside, but that's how people will perceive them. 370 00:26:16,480 --> 00:26:19,480 They will perceive them in their brains, heads and souls. 371 00:26:19,480 --> 00:26:23,480 But the originals, matter, will exist on the outside in paradise. 372 00:26:23,480 --> 00:26:27,480 The original of matter does exist in the outside world. 373 00:26:27,480 --> 00:26:33,480 Our Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, says the mansions of paradise resemble crystal. 374 00:26:33,480 --> 00:26:35,480 People move in and out of them. 375 00:26:35,480 --> 00:26:39,480 There are small streams all around, small streams of paradise. 376 00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:41,480 Paradise consists of layers. 377 00:26:41,480 --> 00:26:46,480 Paradise consists of perfect houses, more beautiful than one can ever imagine. 378 00:26:46,480 --> 00:26:48,480 We are given a glimpse in this world. 379 00:26:48,480 --> 00:26:54,480 The houses of this world are still created in our brains and the dwellings of paradise will also be created in our brains. 380 00:26:54,480 --> 00:26:59,480 The birds and animals of paradise, everything will be created in our brains. 381 00:26:59,480 --> 00:27:02,480 We can never have direct experience of the original of paradise. 382 00:27:02,480 --> 00:27:07,480 There is an original, external paradise, but we will always experience the images of it. 383 00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:25,480 For instance, we now see the world, but although it is three-dimensional, the image we see is two-dimensional. 384 00:27:25,480 --> 00:27:28,480 That is a deficiency of this world. 385 00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:32,480 In paradise, the image will be very sharp and three-dimensional. 386 00:27:32,480 --> 00:27:34,480 It will be very clear. 387 00:27:34,480 --> 00:27:36,480 It is a very sound phenomenon. 388 00:27:36,480 --> 00:27:40,480 All senses, sounds and tastes will be very sharp and distinct. 389 00:27:40,480 --> 00:27:43,480 There is some kind of blurriness in this world. 390 00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:50,480 You cannot hear a sound that is far away, but in paradise, you will hear even the most distant noise. 391 00:27:50,480 --> 00:27:53,480 You can see the furthest object in paradise. 392 00:27:53,480 --> 00:27:58,480 Myopic eyes are very weak in this world, a weakness given to human beings. 393 00:27:58,480 --> 00:28:01,480 For example, you can detect the most far-off sand. 394 00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:04,480 You can reach the furthest thing instantaneously. 395 00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:07,480 You don't say it is too far away to get to. 396 00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:12,480 For example, you see a friend in the distance and you are by his side the next moment. 397 00:28:12,480 --> 00:28:17,480 He might be one million kilometers away, but you are still with him instantaneously. 398 00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:22,480 There is a speed that is even greater than that of light, the speed of imagination. 399 00:28:22,480 --> 00:28:27,480 With the speed of the imagination, a person reaches his destination immediately, 400 00:28:27,480 --> 00:28:32,480 while one still needs to follow a specific route when traveling at the speed of light, 401 00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:36,480 but not there, which is created so one can be there instantaneously. 402 00:28:36,480 --> 00:28:39,480 By Allah's leave, these things will happen. 403 00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:43,480 It is useful for us to know the general logic behind all these things, 404 00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:46,480 though much more comprehensive information is available, of course, 405 00:28:46,480 --> 00:28:54,480 on the www.harunyahya.com and www.harunyahya.org websites. 406 00:28:54,480 --> 00:28:57,480 Allah says that vision is sharper in the hereafter, 407 00:28:57,480 --> 00:29:00,480 that people will see more clearly in three dimensions. 408 00:29:00,480 --> 00:29:05,480 We can only see clearly for 400-500 meters, after which things are blurred. 409 00:29:05,480 --> 00:29:11,480 But in the hereafter, even things three or four kilometers away will be very sharp and clear. 410 00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:15,480 Allah says that our vision on that day will be very sharp. 411 00:29:15,480 --> 00:29:29,480 It will have an extraordinary nature. 412 00:29:29,480 --> 00:29:34,480 People have no internal organs, but their eyes see, their ears hear, 413 00:29:34,480 --> 00:29:37,480 and these things reach the brain. 414 00:29:37,480 --> 00:29:40,480 People will see directly without the need for anything. 415 00:29:40,480 --> 00:29:43,480 All natural causes will be done away with. 416 00:29:43,480 --> 00:29:48,480 For example, a car will run by itself without having an engine or any petrol in it. 417 00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:50,480 It will just go by itself. 418 00:29:50,480 --> 00:29:52,480 There will be illumination. 419 00:29:52,480 --> 00:29:55,480 Things will be illuminated without the sun. 420 00:29:55,480 --> 00:29:58,480 The objects in paradise light themselves. 421 00:29:58,480 --> 00:30:02,480 The sun is needed in this world, a direct cause. 422 00:30:02,480 --> 00:30:05,480 But since there are no such direct causes in the hereafter, 423 00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:09,480 things will eliminate themselves in the absence of direct causes. 424 00:30:09,480 --> 00:30:14,480 Allah says that fruit and vegetables never decrease in quantity. 425 00:30:14,480 --> 00:30:19,480 The moment a piece of fruit is picked, another piece appears. 426 00:30:19,480 --> 00:30:22,480 You can eat as much as you like and it will be replaced. 427 00:30:22,480 --> 00:30:25,480 Paradise is the abode of happiness. 428 00:30:25,480 --> 00:30:38,480 Allah says of paradise that no earthly desire has tasted and no eye seen it. 429 00:30:38,480 --> 00:30:41,480 It is utterly amazing and most beautiful. 430 00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:46,480 One of the best features of paradise is that nowhere grows old or fades, 431 00:30:46,480 --> 00:30:48,480 and everything is positive. 432 00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:52,480 As you know, everything is created with its opposite in this world. 433 00:30:52,480 --> 00:30:54,480 Like good and bad or day and night, 434 00:30:54,480 --> 00:30:57,480 in paradise there will be only positive aspects. 435 00:30:57,480 --> 00:30:59,480 That's the artistry of Allah. 436 00:30:59,480 --> 00:31:03,480 The gate of paradise is uniquely beautiful. 437 00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:07,480 You look at the doors of the houses and they are all separately decorated. 438 00:31:07,480 --> 00:31:09,480 The chairs have a beauty of their own. 439 00:31:09,480 --> 00:31:13,480 So we look at those beauties and give constant thanks to Allah. 440 00:31:13,480 --> 00:31:16,480 The human soul burns with love of Allah in paradise. 441 00:31:16,480 --> 00:31:20,480 You look at the picture in paradise and you give thanks to Allah. 442 00:31:20,480 --> 00:31:21,480 You can even talk to it. 443 00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:25,480 You can tell it to turn a bit to the right and it will do so. 444 00:31:25,480 --> 00:31:29,480 And if you tell it to bring you a cool drink, it will bring you one. 445 00:31:29,480 --> 00:31:32,480 Pour it out, you say, and it will pour it into a glass. 446 00:31:32,480 --> 00:31:36,480 Go back to your place, you say, and back it goes. 447 00:31:36,480 --> 00:31:41,480 Paradise is very pleasant and entertaining like that. 448 00:31:41,480 --> 00:31:44,480 Allah has created it specially to be like that. 449 00:31:44,480 --> 00:31:47,480 But in this world we are bound by direct causes. 450 00:31:47,480 --> 00:31:51,480 I cannot bring something to me without stretching my hand out for it. 451 00:31:51,480 --> 00:31:53,480 I am bound by direct causes. 452 00:31:53,480 --> 00:31:55,480 Yet it's not my hand that brings it here. 453 00:31:55,480 --> 00:31:58,480 Allah creates that in my head. 454 00:31:58,480 --> 00:32:01,480 He creates my hand as the direct cause. 455 00:32:01,480 --> 00:32:03,480 There are always direct causes here. 456 00:32:03,480 --> 00:32:07,480 For instance, were it not for the camera here, they could not see me. 457 00:32:07,480 --> 00:32:09,480 But there is no need for cameras in heaven. 458 00:32:09,480 --> 00:32:11,480 It is created without direct causes. 459 00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:15,480 For example, in paradise, your brother can look and see you. 460 00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:18,480 In other words, there is no need for a camera system. 461 00:32:18,480 --> 00:32:22,480 For instance, it is enough for him to wish to see someone to see them. 462 00:32:22,480 --> 00:32:23,480 The image forms. 463 00:32:23,480 --> 00:32:27,480 But here you have to turn on the television, press the buttons, 464 00:32:27,480 --> 00:32:29,480 and there have to be the cameras and lighting. 465 00:32:29,480 --> 00:32:32,480 Several direct causes have to be created. 466 00:32:32,480 --> 00:32:34,480 And that eliminates our free will. 467 00:32:34,480 --> 00:32:36,480 In other words, since we are tested, 468 00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:39,480 if we obtained images of everywhere without cameras, 469 00:32:39,480 --> 00:32:40,480 everyone would believe. 470 00:32:40,480 --> 00:32:42,480 And the test will be lifted. 471 00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:47,480 Satellite antenna and cameras are used as instruments so the test should continue. 472 00:32:47,480 --> 00:32:52,480 And people are not visible to us in their homes without satellite antenna and cameras. 473 00:32:52,480 --> 00:32:55,480 Images are created as a miracle in every home. 474 00:32:55,480 --> 00:32:58,480 Allah creates them as a miracle in every home. 475 00:32:58,480 --> 00:33:01,480 He uses the camera and satellite systems as his instruments. 476 00:33:01,480 --> 00:33:05,480 He creates them so people will regard the phenomenon as quite normal, 477 00:33:05,480 --> 00:33:10,480 though the fact is that images are directly created in everyone's brain. 478 00:33:10,480 --> 00:33:15,480 For example, he says, there are such mentions in paradise that people on the inside can see the outside, 479 00:33:15,480 --> 00:33:19,480 and those on the outside can see the inside, 480 00:33:19,480 --> 00:33:22,480 a mansion made entirely out of crystal, for instance. 481 00:33:22,480 --> 00:33:25,480 One day the messenger said that there are such mentions in paradise 482 00:33:25,480 --> 00:33:30,480 that there were no hooks to hold them up and no pillars to prop them up. 483 00:33:30,480 --> 00:33:34,480 The people who heard this asked how the inhabitants would enter those mansions. 484 00:33:34,480 --> 00:33:40,480 The messenger, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said they would fly in like birds. 485 00:33:40,480 --> 00:33:44,480 But here, of course, we need an engine to fly from one place to another, 486 00:33:44,480 --> 00:33:47,480 or a propeller, we need a direct cause. 487 00:33:47,480 --> 00:33:50,480 We fly but using vehicles to do so. 488 00:33:50,480 --> 00:33:53,480 Those vehicles do not apply in paradise. 489 00:33:53,480 --> 00:33:55,480 There is no need for any vehicle. 490 00:33:55,480 --> 00:33:57,480 Everything happens by people just thinking of it. 491 00:33:57,480 --> 00:34:01,480 Like in a dream, for instance, when we want to fly, we use a plane. 492 00:34:01,480 --> 00:34:05,480 We get in a vehicle and go to the airport and board the plane, 493 00:34:05,480 --> 00:34:08,480 and we fly by means of the engine of the plane. 494 00:34:08,480 --> 00:34:11,480 The plane then lands in Ankara, say. 495 00:34:11,480 --> 00:34:13,480 We get our bags and a light. 496 00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:15,480 We experience this all very perfectly. 497 00:34:15,480 --> 00:34:19,480 We later realize we were asleep and it was all a dream. 498 00:34:19,480 --> 00:34:23,480 But the plane there needs no petrol or diesel or anything. 499 00:34:23,480 --> 00:34:25,480 That's what paradise is like. 500 00:34:25,480 --> 00:34:27,480 This is also the case in this world. 501 00:34:27,480 --> 00:34:29,480 For example, I want to drink some tea. 502 00:34:29,480 --> 00:34:32,480 It appears that I stretch my hand out for it, 503 00:34:32,480 --> 00:34:35,480 though it is actually Allah who brings the cup to my lips. 504 00:34:35,480 --> 00:34:37,480 My hand doesn't bring the tea to me. 505 00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:40,480 Allah just uses it as a direct cause. 506 00:34:40,480 --> 00:34:43,480 It is also Allah who creates the tea in the cup. 507 00:34:43,480 --> 00:34:45,480 A person cannot do this. 508 00:34:45,480 --> 00:34:51,480 It's a law of Allah, but one that everyone who makes a deep use of his mind can comprehend. 509 00:34:51,480 --> 00:35:00,480 Otherwise, a person who becomes caught up with superficial direct causes imagines that everything is the result of such direct causes. 510 00:35:00,480 --> 00:35:05,480 He imagines that biscuits come from a factory or meat from the butcher's shop. 511 00:35:05,480 --> 00:35:06,480 But Allah creates the meat. 512 00:35:06,480 --> 00:35:08,480 It is created at that moment. 513 00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:13,480 You imagine it comes from the store, but Allah uses this store as a direct cause. 514 00:35:13,480 --> 00:35:15,480 Tables are laid. 515 00:35:15,480 --> 00:35:16,480 Allah sets all tables. 516 00:35:16,480 --> 00:35:22,480 Tables are set as a miracle, but people are unaware of this because of the direct causes involved. 517 00:35:22,480 --> 00:35:25,480 Since these direct causes do not apply in paradise, 518 00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:30,480 tables are set all of a sudden, for it forms instantaneously. 519 00:35:30,480 --> 00:35:34,480 There are no direct causes involved in an object going from one place to another. 520 00:35:34,480 --> 00:35:39,480 For instance, the cars in paradise need no engine and petrol. 521 00:35:39,480 --> 00:35:41,480 They just move spontaneously. 522 00:35:41,480 --> 00:35:44,480 Cars in this world do need engines and petrol, though. 523 00:35:44,480 --> 00:35:47,480 There need to be direct causes for them to move. 524 00:35:47,480 --> 00:35:50,480 If cars were to move without engines and petrol, 525 00:35:50,480 --> 00:35:55,480 people would no longer enjoy the use of their freewheels and would have to have faith. 526 00:35:55,480 --> 00:36:00,480 But since there is no test in paradise, there are no direct causes either. 527 00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:02,480 Everything moves of its own accord. 528 00:36:02,480 --> 00:36:06,480 People just have to think of it to imagine it for it to happen. 529 00:36:16,480 --> 00:36:19,480 All the objects in paradise are intelligent. 530 00:36:19,480 --> 00:36:21,480 They all have understanding. 531 00:36:21,480 --> 00:36:24,480 In order for us to turn the television on here, 532 00:36:24,480 --> 00:36:27,480 for instance, we press the remote and it comes on. 533 00:36:27,480 --> 00:36:29,480 But it's again Allah who turns the television on. 534 00:36:29,480 --> 00:36:31,480 A miracle takes place. 535 00:36:31,480 --> 00:36:34,480 Though Allah appears to use the remote as a direct cause. 536 00:36:34,480 --> 00:36:37,480 But there are no such direct causes in paradise. 537 00:36:37,480 --> 00:36:41,480 For example, if you tell that flower ball to come to you, it does so. 538 00:36:41,480 --> 00:36:46,480 You pick a fruit from its tree and as soon as you do so, it reappears in the tree. 539 00:36:46,480 --> 00:36:47,480 You eat food for instance. 540 00:36:47,480 --> 00:36:51,480 As you keep eating that food, it keeps reappearing in the dish. 541 00:36:51,480 --> 00:36:56,480 And that's perfectly logical because Allah creates it as an image in our brains. 542 00:36:56,480 --> 00:37:02,480 Matter does exist on the outside, but we have direct experience of an image of it in our brains. 543 00:37:02,480 --> 00:37:05,480 And it's logical for the image not to come to an end. 544 00:37:05,480 --> 00:37:10,480 It would be a miracle if the image did come to an end for the food we are eating to be finished. 545 00:37:10,480 --> 00:37:13,480 For example, there is no dust or dirt in paradise. 546 00:37:13,480 --> 00:37:18,480 There is no blurring in anything we normally experience as an image. 547 00:37:18,480 --> 00:37:20,480 We watch a film and there is no blurring. 548 00:37:20,480 --> 00:37:26,480 Even if you watch the film a thousand times, it will still be pristine and the image will never be spoiled. 549 00:37:26,480 --> 00:37:32,480 Allah says that in the hereafter, He will cause Muslims to live in the very finest places. 550 00:37:32,480 --> 00:37:36,480 Allah is referring to mansions, to the tents of paradise. 551 00:37:36,480 --> 00:37:39,480 These are the most lovely places one can imagine. 552 00:37:39,480 --> 00:37:42,480 Perfect images created instinctively. 553 00:37:42,480 --> 00:37:47,480 When we eat fruit, we will say, this is the fruit we have always been longing for. 554 00:37:47,480 --> 00:37:52,480 When we see a woman there, we will say that she is the kind of woman we have always longed for. 555 00:37:52,480 --> 00:37:57,480 When we see a house, we will say that is the kind of house we have always longed for. 556 00:37:57,480 --> 00:38:03,480 Allah says there are smaller rivers, streams of gold running in general curves, as well as bigger rivers. 557 00:38:03,480 --> 00:38:07,480 People have a natural love of water and Allah creates this as an instinct. 558 00:38:07,480 --> 00:38:10,480 For example, the sea lifts our spirit when we see it. 559 00:38:10,480 --> 00:38:17,480 Houses built on places with views of the sea or along the sides of lakes are always more expensive, aren't they? 560 00:38:17,480 --> 00:38:20,480 Allah bestows this as a heavenly instinct. 561 00:38:20,480 --> 00:38:24,480 We have an instinct that draws us to water, a love of water. 562 00:38:24,480 --> 00:38:29,480 We have a love of beautiful places, but this is never satisfied in this world, 563 00:38:29,480 --> 00:38:32,480 though it still exists as an instinct inside us. 564 00:38:32,480 --> 00:38:38,480 For instance, there are no perfect women in this world, and no perfect homes or perfect fruit. 565 00:38:38,480 --> 00:38:40,480 But we still feel this instinctively. 566 00:38:40,480 --> 00:38:46,480 When we eat an apple, we say that there must be better fruit than this somewhere, but we cannot find. 567 00:38:46,480 --> 00:38:49,480 Yet in paradise there is the best of everything. 568 00:38:49,480 --> 00:38:53,480 For example, you pick an apple, but that apple is still on the branch. 569 00:38:53,480 --> 00:38:55,480 You eat, but you are not satisfied. 570 00:38:55,480 --> 00:38:57,480 And there is always food in the ball. 571 00:38:57,480 --> 00:39:00,480 You tell the ball to come to you, and up it gets. 572 00:39:00,480 --> 00:39:02,480 It is intelligent. Everything is intelligent. 573 00:39:02,480 --> 00:39:05,480 In fact, the mind of Allah is everywhere. 574 00:39:05,480 --> 00:39:08,480 But he doesn't put it into action for us here. 575 00:39:08,480 --> 00:39:12,480 That is what happened with the Prophet Moses, peace be upon him, staff. 576 00:39:12,480 --> 00:39:14,480 The mind and power of Allah are everywhere. 577 00:39:14,480 --> 00:39:18,480 The might of Allah was also in the Prophet Moses, peace be upon him, staff. 578 00:39:18,480 --> 00:39:25,480 Moses, peace be upon him, cast the staff down, and Allah turned it into a snake that very moment. 579 00:39:25,480 --> 00:39:27,480 This is something quite extraordinary. 580 00:39:27,480 --> 00:39:32,480 He then told the Prophet Moses, peace be upon him, to pick it up, and when he did so, 581 00:39:32,480 --> 00:39:35,480 it straight away turned back into a staff. 582 00:39:35,480 --> 00:39:39,480 Wood turns into a snake, and then the snake turns back into wood. 583 00:39:39,480 --> 00:39:43,480 That is also how it is in paradise. Everything is conscious. 584 00:39:43,480 --> 00:39:48,480 For instance, whenever one wants to fly somewhere, one can do so. 585 00:39:48,480 --> 00:39:52,480 One can fly through the air with no wings and using no vehicle. 586 00:39:52,480 --> 00:39:57,480 One can travel where one wants to be instantaneously, one just has to think of it. 587 00:39:57,480 --> 00:40:02,480 One can travel somewhere hundreds of thousands of kilometers away in a very short space of time, 588 00:40:02,480 --> 00:40:05,480 in less than a second, momentarily. 589 00:40:05,480 --> 00:40:10,480 Since there is no space, Allah will create the place for us instantaneously. 590 00:40:10,480 --> 00:40:13,480 In other words, it will form in people's brains. 591 00:40:13,480 --> 00:40:18,480 There will be matter on the outside, but it will form in people's brains. 592 00:40:18,480 --> 00:40:23,480 Objects move. Whatever object you ask a question, it will give you a proper answer. 593 00:40:23,480 --> 00:40:26,480 You ask how it is, and it will say it is very well. 594 00:40:26,480 --> 00:40:33,480 Cats and dogs and rabbits, you ask what are they up to, and they will say they are walking around, thanks be to Allah. 595 00:40:33,480 --> 00:40:36,480 You call them too, and they will come and sit on your shoulder. 596 00:40:36,480 --> 00:40:39,480 You can talk with them, and then send them off. 597 00:40:39,480 --> 00:40:43,480 But that consciousness exists only in paradise. 598 00:40:52,480 --> 00:40:54,480 There is no need for them not to be seen. 599 00:40:54,480 --> 00:40:56,480 Of course, they will be visible. 600 00:40:56,480 --> 00:40:59,480 They will appear in the guise of normal, attractive human beings, 601 00:40:59,480 --> 00:41:02,480 because they are also our believer brethren. 602 00:41:02,480 --> 00:41:06,480 They listen to our talk and benefit from us, and they also read the Quran. 603 00:41:06,480 --> 00:41:07,480 But they will be visible there. 604 00:41:07,480 --> 00:41:10,480 Demons are not visible here, but they will be visible in hell. 605 00:41:10,480 --> 00:41:12,480 They will all be visible. 606 00:41:12,480 --> 00:41:25,480 True believers go to paradise, and I tell people the secret of that. 607 00:41:25,480 --> 00:41:29,480 But one doesn't worship Allah simply in order to get to paradise and be happy. 608 00:41:29,480 --> 00:41:33,480 One performs one's religious observations to earn his approval. 609 00:41:33,480 --> 00:41:35,480 One's sole aim is the approval of Allah. 610 00:41:35,480 --> 00:41:39,480 A believer's sole aim is the approval of Allah. 611 00:41:39,480 --> 00:41:42,480 But if he grants us paradise, there is a blessing from him. 612 00:41:42,480 --> 00:41:45,480 We are content with whatever Allah may give us. 613 00:41:45,480 --> 00:41:49,480 We are content with all outcomes, and we submit to Allah. 614 00:41:49,480 --> 00:41:54,480 A believer will still be content with Allah if he sends him to hell or to paradise. 615 00:41:54,480 --> 00:42:01,480 Allah forbids, but even if a believer goes to hell, he will still burn with the love of Allah there. 616 00:42:01,480 --> 00:42:03,480 But believers will not go to hell. 617 00:42:03,480 --> 00:42:06,480 I am saying that for reasons of clarity. 618 00:42:06,480 --> 00:42:09,480 Otherwise nobody who burns with love of Allah will go to hell.