Jannah: Home at Last
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Your Home in Jannah | Episode 5
Gold, rubies, and crystal are only a few of the materials used to build the luxurious palaces of Jannah. From crystal constructions in the air, to houses carved from a single pearl, each home is a reward for a particular life led and deeds obtained. What will your Lord reward you for?
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Transcript
This transcript was auto-generated using AI and may contain misspellings. So you've been welcomed into your new home in Jannah by Allah, by the angels and by all of the creation in Paradise. What does that new home look like? Abu Huraira radiAllahu ta'ala, and we said that, we said to the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam, Ya Rasulullah, when we see you, our hearts are so soft and we feel like we're people of the hereafter. But then once we leave from you, we get involved in this dunya and we get busy with our spouses and our children and we feel like our hearts are hardened a bit. And the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam said, if you were to remain on the same condition on which you are with me, the angels would shake hands with you and visit you in your homes. And if you were to not commit sins, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala would replace you with others who will commit sins and then they'll seek his forgiveness and he can forgive them. Meaning you're not supposed to be perfect yet. That's in Jannah and the angels would greet you in every direction like they would in Jannah if you were to be perfect in this life. But keep on striving and keep on going and wait for that moment where you enter into Jannah and actually live that reality. And on that note, the companions, they responded to the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam and they said, Ya Rasulullah, tell us about Jannah and its structure. And the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam said, He said salallahu alayhi wasalam that its structure is one brick of gold, one brick of silver, its plaster is musk, its gravel is pearl and ruby, and its soil is saffron. So again, these palaces are from bricks of gold and silver. The plaster is musk, the gravel is pearl and ruby, and the soil is
saffron. The Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam said, He said, Ibn Al-Qayyim rahimahullahi gives you the scene. He says you enter into a lofty house and the distance between the ground and the roof is a hundred cubits. So it's super high ceilings. And he said it's built on a waterfall of pearl and ruby having red, green and yellow paths and none of the pathways in Jannah are the same as the other. So there's differentiation throughout and he said the water flows throughout the homes. And this is the case of all of the homes of Jannah that you have water flowing throughout. And beautiful mansions in gardens of everlasting bliss. SubhanAllah, notice that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, He says mansions. So it's not just one mansion, mansions, and he said, they're beautiful and they're pure and they don't require any maintenance. You know, sometimes people worry that a big house means big trouble. And by the way, there's no kitchen in Jannah because what would you need a kitchen for anyway? You don't need to wash dishes. You don't need to vacuum. You don't need to clean anything of these houses. That's all taken care of. And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says it's not just houses, but it is all sorts of properties. So Allah mentions biyut, homes. Allah mentions qusur which are palaces. Allah mentions ghuraf, these special apartments, these special rooms and Allah mentions khiyam, the guest houses and the pavilions that reside on the outside of these gardens. And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, Everywhere you look around, you just see indescribable blessing and
that's reflected on your face. Ta'rifu fee wujuhihim, nadratan na'eem. You look at the faces of the believers and you just see that they're so happy, that they're full of so much bliss as they look around. wa mulkan kabira, and a vast kingdom. It's not just one construction, but all sorts of constructions that belong to you. So what do these look like? Where the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam you know, talks about this particular palace that he says he saw that belonged to Umar radiAllahu ta'ala anhu. He said it was a palace of gold and Imam Hassan al-Basri rahim Allahi comments on this because again, there are degrees in Jannah. He says a palace of pure gold is only for a prophet, a siddiq, a martyr or a just ruler. And these are of course very similar to the same categories that are shaded under Allah's throne because remember the virtues of the day of judgment carry over into Jannah now. So you have a rank of palaces of pure gold and in Jannah carrots, of course, not in worldly carrots and that belongs to the highest level of its occupants. And then Ibn Al-Qayyim rahimahullah said there are palaces in paradise of gold and then you have some of silver and then some of pearl and some of ruby and some of crystal and Ubaid ibn Umair radiAllahu ta'ala anhu says the lowest person in paradise will have a home of one single pearl with its multiple rooms and gates. So the highest level is actually funny enough the word in the Quran that sometimes gets translated as apartments, but it's not what it may seem to people because apartments can seem lower in this dunya. In Jannah, they're actually describing something higher, something that belongs only to the sabiqoon, to the forerunners and that's the word ghuraf, so the rooms or the apartments and these are what the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam described as constructions that are made of crystal and they sparkle in the horizon of Jannah.
So they're like these glimmering chalets in the sky that look like stars to the rest of Jannah and he said SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam the rest of the people of Jannah, they see the residents of the ghuraf as you would see a long gone star in the horizon and Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala describes the qualities of these ghuraf and the people that get them. Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala says lakin allatheena taqaw rabbahum lahum ghurafun min fawqiha ghurafun mabniyatun tajree min tahti al-anhar that for those who are conscious of their Lord, they have these rooms and above those rooms, there are other rooms and they have been built with rivers flowing beneath them, wa'dAllah and this is the promise of Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala and he does not fail in his promise. So first taqwa, the first quality here is taqwa people that are God conscious, allatheena taqaw and people of taqwa gave up the sins that spoke to their lower selves. So now they get the higher rewards of the ghuraf. Then Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala says illa man aamana wa amila saliha faulaika lahum jaza ul-dh'ifi bima amilu wahum filghurufati aaminoon Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala says that it's those who do good deeds, those who believe and do good deeds that have multiplied rewards with us for all that they did and they live in safety in these ghuraf, these lofty dwellings of paradise. So basically now you have those who had lofty deeds and now they have lofty dwellings with Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala and finally Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala says particularly after mentioning Ibadur Rahman, the servants of the most merciful who tread the earth lightly and when they are harshly addressed they respond with salam and Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala goes on to mention all of these lofty qualities, the qualities of the people who are most beloved to him and they're not easy qualities
to maintain and Allah says after the description of Ibadur Rahman the servants of the most merciful Ulaika yujzauna alghurfata bima asabaru They will be rewarded with high apartments because of their patience, for their patience of harsh addresses from the ignorant towards them when they responded with salam and now Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala is responding to them with salam and the way that they would forego certain things in this world. And now Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala is giving them dwellings that they could not have imagined in the hereafter. So these dwellings have to do with taking the higher road. And so now they occupy the higher room and that's why Asi alayhi salam gets this high dwelling, indaka, with you because she bore the abuse not just of someone that was insulting. She bore the abuse of Fir'aun and she took the high road. So now she has a room in the highest rank with Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala. Also the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam mentioned homes for those who leave off arguments, even when they're right. So they don't engage in lower manners and they leave off foolish joking so they don't engage in lowliness with their humor to impress anybody and they have good character. So they have high standards that other people don't necessarily abide by and Rasulullah SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said there are rooms in Paradise, the inner of which is seen from the outside and the outside seen from the inside. And you might be thinking well, where is the privacy? Well, you don't have to worry about privacy because of the expanse and the elevation. No one can see you in these rooms. So these transparent homes and we said Ya Rasulullah, who are these for? And he said Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala has prepared them for the one who feeds the poor and then who fasts consistently and who prays at night when other people are sleeping. So you can have multiple homes in Paradise, but you have to commit
to multiple deeds and strive to have golden qualities befitting of the golden palaces that we so desire.
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