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-------------------Al-Jannah wa An-Naar-------------------------<br />
will be told, "This is your position, until Allaah (swt) resurrects you on the Day of Resurrection".<br />
According to al-Muwatta of Imaam Maalik <strong>and</strong> as-Sunaan, Abu Dawood, "Ka'b ibn Maalik said the Messenger of<br />
"Verily the soul of the believer is a bird hanging on to the trees of <strong>Paradise</strong>, until Allaah Swt returns<br />
the day of Resurrection"<br />
This makes it clear that souls will enter <strong>Paradise</strong> before the Day of Resurrection.<br />
As for the specious arguments of those who say that <strong>Hell</strong> has not been created yet, they say: If it was already<br />
it would of necessity have to come to an end of the Day of Resurrection <strong>and</strong> everyone in it would have to peris<br />
says: "Everything will perish save His Face" (28:88) <strong>and</strong> "Everyone shall taste death.." (3:185) The res<br />
you mean that <strong>Paradise</strong> does not exist until the Trumpet is blown <strong>and</strong> people are resurrected from their graves<br />
incorrect <strong>and</strong> is refuted by the evidence quoted above <strong>and</strong> other proofs which we have not mentioned here. If<br />
Allaah (swt) has not yet completed the creation of everything that He will prepare for the inhabitants of Paradi<br />
still creating more <strong>and</strong> more things in it, <strong>and</strong> that when the believers enter <strong>Paradise</strong>, Allaah (swt) will create ev<br />
it, then this is true <strong>and</strong> cannot be refuted, <strong>and</strong> the evidence that you give can only mean this, but when you us<br />
"Everything will perish save His Face" - as evidence, your problem is that you misinterpret this aayah. Usi<br />
<strong>Paradise</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Hell</strong> do not yet exist is like your colleagues using it to prove that they will both be destroyed <strong>and</strong><br />
will all perish! You <strong>and</strong> your scholars did not underst<strong>and</strong> the aayah properly; only the leaders (great scholars) o<br />
understood it properly. They say that "everything" for which Allaah (swt) has decreed destruction <strong>and</strong> oblivion<br />
<strong>Paradise</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Hell</strong> have been created to last forever <strong>and</strong> never pass away, as has the Throne, which forms the r<br />
"It was suggested that it meant that everything would perish except His dominion, or whatever was done for H<br />
suggestion was that when Allaah (swt) revealed the word: "Whatever is on it will perish" - the angels said, "Th<br />
are doomed", <strong>and</strong> hoped that they would remain. Allaah said that the people of heaven <strong>and</strong> earth would perish<br />
invoke not any other ilaah along with Allaah, Laa ilaaha illaa Huwaa. Everything will perish save His<br />
because He is the Living <strong>and</strong> does not die. The angels realise that they too were destined to die. Their words sh<br />
the light of <strong>and</strong> reconciled with other clear <strong>and</strong> unambiguous reports that prove that both <strong>Paradise</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Hell</strong> are<br />
(Sharh at-Tahaawiyyah, p.479, see also Siddeeq Hasan Khan, Yaqadhah ula al-'i'tibaar, p. 37 <strong>and</strong> 'Aqeedah as<br />
The Keepers of <strong>Hell</strong><br />
St<strong>and</strong>ing over <strong>Hell</strong> are MIGHTY <strong>and</strong> STERN angels who never disobey Allaah subhaanahu wa ta'ala Who has cre<br />
do whatever He comm<strong>and</strong>s them, as Allaah subhaanahu wa ta'ala says:<br />
"O you who believe! Save yourselves <strong>and</strong> your families from a Fire whose fuel is men <strong>and</strong> stones, ov<br />
[appointed] angels stern [<strong>and</strong>] severe, who flinch not [from executing] the Comm<strong>and</strong>s they receive<br />
do [precisely what] they are comm<strong>and</strong>ed." (66:6)<br />
Their number is nineteen as Allaah (swt) says:<br />
"Soon I will cast him into <strong>Hell</strong>fire. And what will explain to you what <strong>Hell</strong>fire is? Naught does it per<br />
<strong>and</strong> naught does it leave alone! Darkening <strong>and</strong> changing the colour of man! Over it are nineteen [a<br />
guardians <strong>and</strong> keepers of <strong>Hell</strong>]" (74:26-30)<br />
This number was a challenge to the kuffaar who thought that they would easily overcome such a small number<br />
realise that one of these angels has the strength to confront the whole of mankind on his own. For this reason<br />
in the next aayah:<br />
"And We have set none but angels as guardians of the Fire, <strong>and</strong> We have fixed their numbers [19] o
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