Jannah: Home at Last
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Your Jannah Welcoming | Episode 4
Your home in Jannah, you’ll realize, is one you already know better than you ever knew your homes on earth. When the gates open with flourish for you, you will first be welcomed by angels, greeting you with salaam (peace). As those gentle caretakers—jubilant for you—walk you through the palaces your deeds and patience built, they will show you what awaits: your servants in the thousands, shining like pearls and your family and friends eager to reunite with you.
And just when you think you couldn’t be happier, Allah will give you glad tidings of something even better than all the pleasure Paradise promises.
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DISCLAIMER: All depictions of Jannah are purely conceptual and only vocals were used in the making of the soundtrack.
Transcript
This transcript was auto-generated using AI and may contain misspellings. Ali radiyaAllahu anhu said, Those who are mindful of their Lord will be led into the garden. And when they arrive at the gate of it, they are going to find a tree, and at the root of that tree there are two streams that are flowing out. So they approach one of them just as they have been commanded, and they drink from it. And then all of the dirt and the filth and the foulness on the inside is washed away. And then they drink from the other, and they do wudu' from its water, and everything on the outside is washed away. And this gives them this radiance that is Jannah-like. And after that, he said radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu, that their skin will never change, it will never crack, their hair will never be disheveled again, and it is as if they have been polished. Then they reach the keepers of paradise who will say to them, Salamun alaikum tibutum fa-dkhuruha khalideen, peace be on to you, you have become purified, enter it now and abide therein forever. When the Prophet ﷺ came to Medina and he gave his first address to the people, the first thing he said about getting to Jannah was, Afshu salam, spread peace. And the last thing he said was, tadkhulu aljannata bisalam, you will enter into Jannah in peace. So you want to be welcomed into Jannah with salam, then spread salam. And when we look at the way the angels greet us, the angels say, Salamun alaikum tibutum, peace be on to you, you have become purified, so enter into it forever. Now pay attention carefully to each of these phrases, Salamun alaikum, you will only have peace all around you. So the scholars say that means you will be safe from your environment.
Tibutum, you have become purified, so you are safe from any of your own sins or anything that is internal inside of you. Fa-dkhuluha khalideen, so enter it forever, you are safe from the eternal, meaning you are safe from time, you are safe from expiration, you are safe from any enemy, you are safe from ever being expelled from Al-Jannah. In contrast, the people of hellfire are told, didn't you get warnings? Didn't you get messengers? Didn't you get signs? And the punishment is only increased by the pain of them knowing that they had so many chances to respond to the call of Darus salam, the place of peace. And hellfire only gets worse. The scholars say, pay attention to how Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la says, adkhulu abwaba jahannam, enter through the gates of hellfire. But then Allah says, adkhuluha, enter into Jannah. So what's the difference between enter the gates and enter into? As for enter the gates, when the people of hellfire enter the gates, the gates shut behind them and it only gets worse inside. Innaha AAalayhim muqsada fee AAamadin mumaddada, it will be shut on them and sealed tight and there are extended columns behind them. And these are columns that will be holding the gates from behind like a huge stone, which is placed behind the gate. May Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la protect us from that fate. Allahumma Ameen. As for those who enter into Jannah, it is adkhuluha bisalam, enter into it in peace, meaning roam freely. No one would want to walk out. And in this world, you close gates to either trap something or to protect yourself. The people of paradise don't need to be trapped and they don't need protection from anything. So there's no mention of the gates of paradise ever closing on the believers. Now technically you also don't need a guide because you know exactly where to go. And in fact, you're more familiar with your home in paradise than you are with your home in this world.
The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said, waladhi nafsi biyadih inna ahadahum bimanzeelihi filjannati ahda minhu bimaskanihi kaana fi al-dunya. By the one in whose hand is my soul, one of you will know your home in paradise better or as much as you knew your home in this dunya. And this is the tafsir of a home in paradise that Allah made known to them. Allah says, arrafaha lahum, he made it known to them. And that too is connected to our deeds. Mam Hassan al-Basri Rahimahullah said, wasafa Allahu ta'ala lahumuljannata fi al-dunya falamma dakhaluha arafuha bi sifatiha Allah has described paradise to them in this world in such a way that once they enter into Jannah, they will know it by its description. So you will remember everything we spoke about in this series inshaAllah ta'ala when you actually enter into Jannah bi-idhnillahi ta'ala. So what's the purpose then of an angel that guides you? That's only to make you feel more welcomed. Muqatib Ibn Hayyan Rahimahullah said that we are told that the angel entrusted with the care of the children of Adam will walk in paradise and the child of Adam will follow him and he will show him all of his properties until he reaches the final dwelling. And then he will tell the person about everything that he was given in Jannah. And then once you enter into your home with your family, the angel goes away. And in one narration, the angel says, ana qayyimuka allathee wukiltu bi amrik that I am your caretaker and you have been entrusted to me. So you have a whole welcoming committee in Jannah and it starts with the angels. Hurmaid Ibn Hilal Rahimahullah says that when one enters paradise and is given the form of the people of paradise and then dressed up with their dress and then adorned with their jewelry and then shown the maidens and the servants and all that is in there of the creations of paradise, that you become so happy that if it was possible, you would die
out of joy and then it is said to that person, you see this happiness that is overwhelming you? It's going to be like this forever. Meaning you're always going to be this happy like your first entrance. Adh-Dhahak Rahimahullah said, and then when the believer enters into Jannah, the angel leads him to all of its different lanes and pathways and says, what do you see here? And you say, I see palaces of gold and silver and the angel says, all of that is for you. And then when you reach there, there are servants at every gate of every palace and they welcome you and they say, Nahnu Lak, we are for you. And then the angel says, walk with me further and says, what do you see here? And you say, I see beautiful canopies and companions and it will be said to him that all of this is for you. And then you reach there and you're received by them and they will say to you, Nahnu Lak, we are for you. And Abu Abdur Rahman Al Jubari says, and then when the believer enters heaven first, he is received by 70,000 servants as if they are shiny pearls. Two rows of those servants are arranged on both sides, neither one of them seeing the other and anytime you walk, they follow you. They walk with you. And the spouses of paradise welcome each other by saying what? Anta Hibbi wa Ana Hibbuk. You are my love and I am your love. And that's all of the other welcomeings. But what about the greatest welcomer of all? Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la, Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said that Allah will say to the people of paradise, Ya Ahlul Jannah, Oh people of paradise. And the people of paradise will say, Labbayka wa Sa'dayk, here we are, Oh Allah, here we come. What is it? Oh Allah. And these people are the same people that used to say Labbayka Allah in this life. Here we come, Oh Allah, here we come. And now they're saying it in Jannah. What is it? Oh Allah, we're ready. And Allah says, Har raditum, are you pleased? and they say, how could we not be pleased
when you've given us everything that we could possibly want and things that you've not given to anyone else of your creation. And Allah says, I'm going to give you something that's better than all of that. And they say, Ya Rabb, our Lord, what is better than that? And Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la says, Uhillu alaykum ridwani fala asghatu alaykum ba'dahu abada, that I am pleased with you forever and I will never be angry with you again. Now, SubhanAllah, that shows how in this beautiful abode of Allah's pleasure, if he wasn't pleased with us, he wouldn't have given us all of these palaces in paradise. But here he is saying, this is me being pleased with you forever. And that's the greatest welcome. And as you enter your home in paradise, there's a logic to each one of these palaces in each of these homes. And they're not all of the same genre. So no one feels like they have a smaller home or they live in a worse neighborhood in Jannah. But the most special homes in paradise are for those who responded to severe trials with exemplary patience. So this genre of homes is not because of specific deeds, which we're going to talk about later, but this is about that quality of people who just wanted Allah's pleasure no matter what. So when Asi alayhi salam says, my Lord, Rabb ibn li'indaka baytan fil jannah, my Lord, build for me with you a palace in Jannah. She said that as she was sacrificing her home and her comfort in this life, all for Allah's pleasure. And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gave salam to Khadija radiyaAllahu anha through Jibreel alayhi salam. And he gave her the bushra, the glad tidings of a palace in Jannah of special pearls with no noise or fatigue because she gave that type of a home and comfort up in this life, all for Allah's pleasure. And when someone loses a child and still praises Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala through that pain, Allah says build for my servant a house of praise because he lost what made his home praiseworthy in this life.
So he deserves a home of praise in paradise. All that person wanted was salam from Allah and the reward of Allah. And now that person has it. So Ibn al-Qayyim rahimAllah gives us the scene. He said a person enters into their palace in paradise and they know their place and then you're met with your family who are full of joy and receiving you. And this is even more so than when family come together and rejoice in this life after a loved one has been away for a long time. And then he hears the greetings of all of the new companions of paradise. And then he goes and he reclines on his bed and he looks at the foundation and he notices that even the bed has been erected on beautiful pearls and he sees green and red and yellow pads and drapes and he raises his head to the roof of his house. And had he not been created for it, he would have lost his vision. And he says as he's looking around, alhamdulillah all praises be to Allah who guided us to this. We would have never been able to get this had Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala not guided us. And you
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