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Ibn al-Qayyim al-Jawziyyah· محمد بن أبي بكر ابن قيم الجوزيةClassical Scholar

Hadi al-Arwah ila Bilad al-Afrah

Hadi al-Arwah, chapters 1, 4, 60

Paradise is the abode Allah has prepared for His believing slaves: in it is what no eye has seen, no ear has heard, and what has not occurred to the heart of any human. Its lowest dweller will be given the like of the world ten times over; its highest will look upon the Face of Allah, and that is the greatest of its delights. It has eight gates and one hundred levels — between every two levels is the distance between the heaven and the earth — and the highest of them is al-Firdaws, above which is the Throne of the Most Merciful.

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Paradise is real, eternal, with grades — its highest level is al-Firdaws and its greatest joy is gazing upon the Face of Allah.

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