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were provided with before,’ because they were given similar things. and there will be pure spouses for them, and they will abide there forever.” (2:25) a hadith relates that heaven and hell result from people’s actions returned to them. (Hilyat al Auliya’, vol 5, p. 125) From the above, we learn that entry into heaven begins in this very world itself. a heavenly person obtains his heaven in this world itself. it is as if a replica of heaven exists in this world, and only he will enter heaven in the hereafter who have attained this replica of heaven while in this world. This worldly replica of heaven is, as it were, a cash award granted to someone before the real reward, as a preliminary indication or symbol of the heavenly reward after death. Who are these heavenly people? in this world, they are those who experience the psychological states that make them eligible for heaven in the hereafter. Their hearts have been shattered into bits in the awareness of being in God’s proximity and in the awareness that God is inspecting all their deeds. Expelling all feelings of envy, malice, and revenge from their hearts, they have experienced divine forgiveness. They have seen the mercy of a beneficent Master who forgives his servants who acknowledge their mistakes in their tears of repentance. They release people under their control so their lord can set them free on that day when they will be in an infinitely more helpless condition. They willingly surrender themselves before the Truth in the same way others will fall flat on seeing God on the day of Judgment.