THE HEREAFTER

The Hereafter ~ 72 ~ meat, and on the other side was rotten, foul - smelling meat. These people, ignoring the good meat, were eating the meat which had gone bad. The Angel explained that these were the men and women who had forsaken their own legitimate spouses and taken to unlawful partners for the satisfaction of their desires.” The state of affairs in Paradise is the same. The Quran explains that the reward given in Heaven will be of the same hue as one’s actions in this world. “Proclaim good tidings to those who have faith and do good works. They shall dwell in gardens watered by running streams. Whenever they are given fruit to eat, they will say: ‘This is what we used to eat before,’ for they shall be given the like” (2:25). This means that the rewards of the Hereafter will be in exact accordance with one’s actions in this world. The form of the reward will be exactly suited to our deeds. At one place during the same Night Journey, the Prophet saw some harvesters at work. The more they cut, the more their harvest increased. When he asked who they were, he was told by the Archangel