What Is Paradise?

ON THE THRESHOLD OF PARADISE listens to the sounds that give pleasure to his ears in the real sense; where he touches those things which gives him the highest degree of pleasure; where he has the company of those people who make his life highly meaningful, where the winds are life-giving zephyrs for him, where he eats such food as he eternally craved for and he sips such drinks as are only beautiful figments of his imagination today. Those pure souls will qualify for Paradise who, in their life in this world, come up to the standard of citizenship of Paradise—a perfect world of eternal comfort and pleasure, a world which holds far more significant meaning than this one. Perhaps it is this Divine Plan which Jesus Christ was referring to: “This is how you should pray: Our Father who art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy name, Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, on Earth as it is in Heaven.” (Matthew, 6:9) Which are the pure souls who will qualify for the citizenship of Paradise in the hereafter? Answering this, the Quran states: “The hearts of the people of Paradise will be filled with the glory of God.” (The Quran, 39:75)