23: To have Faith that Paradise and the Fire are true and both are already created.

To have Faith that Paradise is true and real and that the Fire is true and real and that both are already created[1]. Paradise is in the seventh Heaven. Its ceiling is the Throne. The Fire is beneath the seventh and lowest earth. They are both created. Allah, the Most High, knew the number of inhabitants of Paradise and those who would enter it and the number of those who are the inhabitants of the Fire and those who would enter it. Neither of them will ever end; they will both last along with Allah forever and ever.

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NOTES

1. The hadeeth of the Israa and Mi’raaj shows the present existence of Paradise and the Fire. It occurs in Saheeh al-Bukhaaree (Eng. trans., vol.5, no.227) and Saheeh Muslim (Eng. trans., vol.1, no.309-322). Raf’ul-Astaar by al-Ameer as-San’aanee is an excellent book, being a reply to those who claim that the Fire will eventually come to an end.

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