Your Spouses in Jannah

So you are walking towards your palace in Paradise and you see your wife. Whether it is your wife from dunya or your wife from Jannah – but you will see her face and just be frozen in his tracks because of her beauty. 

Allah says about them, “Companions of equal age” (78:33) and He says, “We have created (their Companions) of special creation, And made them virgin – pure (and undefiled), Beloved (by nature), equal in age.” (56:35-37)

One of the scholars said that this man will just stand there and stare at her for 40 years. These women are not beautiful because they were voted in by a panel of men at a beauty contest :) Allah said that they are beautiful, and it is enough for us that Allah said they are beautiful. Allah says, “In them will be fair companions, good and beautiful.”

Anas ibn Maalik narrated that RasulAllah sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam says, in a hadith in Bukhaari, “If one of the women of Jannah would just appear to the people of this world, the distance of the heavens and the earth would be filled with light and her scent will cover the whole distance, and the scarf that she has on her head is better than the world and everything in it.” This sun of ours that lights up this earth is very close to us. If we go further away in the solar system, the sunlight barely penetrates other parts of the universe. And we have a woman of Jannah, at a much farther distance, and her light will fill the heavens and the earth. RasulAllah sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam said that a piece of cloth on her head (her scarf) is better than the earth and everything in it.

Once, RasulAllah sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam received a piece of cloth as a gift and the sahabah were quite impressed with it – they were passing it around and touching it. RasulAllah sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam smiled and he said, “It seems that you are impressed by the quality of this cloth. The handkerchiefs of Mu’aadh ibn Jabl in Paradise are better than this.” So the quality of things in Jannah is better than anything in this world.

Allah says, about the Hur al ‘ayn, that they have a special creation. The same goes for men - they will have the height of Adam ‘alayhis salaam, which is about 90 yards; the beauty of Yusuf ‘alayhis salaam [who was the most beautiful man]; the age of ‘Eesa [Jesus] ‘alayhis salaam - which was 30 years. Men in dunya will be impotent compared to the men of akhirah. RasulAllah sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam said, in a hadith in at-Tirmidhi, that a man in Jannah will have the strength of 100 men in this world. Everything is better in Jannah.

Allah says of the women of Jannah: “(In beauty) they are like rubies and coral.” (55:58)

RasulAllah sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam says in another hadith that the women of Jannah will be so beautiful that you will be able to see the marrow in the bone from behind the clothes. I keep thinking – How could this be a sign of beauty? Keep in mind that RasulAllah has seen this and he is trying to convey it to us. Our minds are unable to grasp this different dimension in Jannah and we cannot understand it.