Entering Your Palace

Now you’ve spent all of these years staring with your wife – then you will enter into your mansion. Everything is new to you. Everything is an experience. You look at the furniture in your mansion – the quality, the arrangement, etc. You go from room to room, saying alhamdulillah. This is an insult to call it furniture, because there is no comparison.

Allah says: “Therein will be Thrones (of dignity), raised on high. Goblets placed (ready), and cushions set in rows.” (88:13-15) They are not just beautiful, but the way the furniture is arranged is special. Imagine that an angel that is a specialist and specially prepares this for you. So you and your wife will go around and be amazed by the taste and art of the angels, and comparing it to your house in dunya and the difference. So you’ll go and have a seat and touch the fabric, impressed with everything.

Allah says: “They will recline (with ease) on Thrones (of dignity) arranged in ranks; and We shall join them to Companions, with beautiful big and lustrous eyes.” (52:20) So you’ll spend a few months, enjoying the pleasure of these cushions and this beautiful palace. Don’t think that this is an exaggeration – in Jannah you don’t have to go anywhere or do anything; you have unlimited time. You could leave your palace and see a rose and sit there watching this rose for a year. There is nothing rushing you; you don’t have work. You can do whatever you want. Everything can wait. You can talk to your wife for a long time, talking about the tough moments of the grave, the Day of Judgment, etc.

Then your wife will tell you to look at the rest of your property. You will say, no, I enjoy it here, this couch is nice. She will say, listen, you kept me at home in dunya. Let’s go out and take a look at what Allah has given us. In dunya you worked and had me at home, and now in Jannah you want to keep me here? Then the two of you will go out and look at your property.

In the lowest Jannah, you will have 10 times of this dunya and everything in it. The levels in akhirah in huge – so imagine how much more a person in a higher rank will have! So this is humongous real estate in Jannah.

Before you look at your property with your wife, you will have something to eat and drink. You will have youth running around your palace, dressed in wonderful colours, they’re all smiling and serving you all of these things you have never seen before.

Ibn Kathir says, the people of Jannah will be served by youth that live for eternity. They never change or grow in age. If you see how many they are and how willing they are to serve you and how bright and beautiful their faces are, smiling all the time, and you look at the colours of their clothes and the jewellery they are wearing, they appear to be scattered pearls.

Allah says, “And round about them will (serve) youths of perpetual (freshness): If thou seest them, thou wouldst think them scattered Pearls.” (76:19) Your wife doesn’t have to do anything; it is pure enjoyment for both of you. So you’re sitting there and being served by these wonderful servants. You’ll have something to eat and drink and then you’ll leave.