Deserving of Paradise

his deeds, he will earn the right to inhabit the perfect and eternal world, which is another name for Paradise. According to His will, God created a perfect world called Paradise—a world that fulfils all our human desires, free of all limitations and disadvantages, free of fear and pain, and free of all imperfections. It is an eternal world with neither death nor old age, an ideal world where we can achieve fulfilment. Less-than-perfect beings cannot inhabit a perfect Paradise. Therefore, God created perfection-seeking creatures— human beings. He intended for us to spend a period of trial here on Earth. After this, we will earn the right to inhabit the perfect and eternal world according to our deeds. The essence of God’s creation plan is to grant a person complete freedom—not as a gift, but as a test. This test enables God to judge who misuses their freedom and who uses it wisely. This is the divine scheme for humanity. In the pre-death period of life, individuals have the opportunity to qualify themselves for Paradise so that in the post-death period, they may be settled as deserving candidates in this perfect world. This world, therefore, has all the components necessary for a test. It contains perfection-seeking beings in a lessthan-perfect world who have been given complete freedom to choose their actions. Thus, we have a choice—we can misuse our freedom to do evil or use our freedom wisely, submit to God, and qualify for Paradise. Those who misuse their God-given freedom are warned in the Quran: “This is the Truth from your Lord. Let him who