Question : What are description of the people of paradise and some of
the delights they enjoy therein?
Answer : The people of Paradise will
enter in the most perfect and beautiful form, in the image of their
father, Aadam (as), for there is no human form more perfect and
beautiful than that of Aadam, whom Allah (swt) created very tall. He
was as tall as a great palm tree, sixty cubits tall. Muslim reports from
Abu Hurayrah (ra) that the Messenger of Allah (saw) said, "Allah,
Subhaanahu wa ta’aala, created Aadam in his own image, sixty cubits
tall… everyone who enters Paradise will be in the image of Aadam,
sixty cubits tall. People kept getting shorter and shorter after the time
of Aadam."[Saheeh Muslim, Kitaab al-Jannah] Their external
appearance will be in harmony, and their hearts will be as one. Their
hearts and souls will be clean and pure. Muslim reports from Abu
Hurayrah (ra) a hadith in which the Prophet describes people entering
Paradise including a group whose light will be like the full moon. He
(saw) said, "Their form will be that of a single person, after the image
of their father Aadam, sixty cubits tall." [Saheeh Muslim, Kitaab al-
Jannah] Another aspect of their beauty is that they will have no body
hair, and will look as if their eyes are anointed with kohl. Each of them
will enter Paradise aged thirty-three, the age of strength, vitality and
youth. Ahmad and at-Tirmidhi report from Mu’aadh ibn Jabal that the
Messenger of Allah (saw) said, "The people of Paradise will enter
Paradise hairless, looking as if their eyes are ringed with kohl, aged
thirty three." [Saheeh al-Jaami’ 6/337, no. 7928] As reported in the
hadith narrated by Bukhaari and Muslim, from Abu Hurayrah (ra), the
people of Paradise "will not spit, blow their noses or excrete". The
people of Paradise will not sleep. Jaabir ibn ‘Abdullaah and ‘Abdullaah
ibn Abi Awfaa reported that the Messenger of Allah (saw) said, "Sleep
is the brother of death; the people of Paradise will not sleep" [Silsilat
al-Hadith as-Saheehah, 3/74, no. 1087, al-Kaamil of Ibn ‘Adiyy, al-
Hilyah of Abu Na’eem, Taareekh Isbahaan, by Abul-Sheikh]
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