Can You Have ANYTHING You Want in Jannah? | Ep. 13 | #JannahSeries with Dr. Omar Suleiman

Summary

The Prophet Muhammad (SAW) narrated a story about the last person to leave Hell and enter Paradise, emphasizing Allah's immense mercy and generosity. This man, with minimal faith, is granted a place in Jannah despite initially finding it fully occupied. Allah then bestows upon him the entire world multiplied by ten. The Prophet's laughter highlights Allah's response to the man's disbelief at his fortune. The narrative underscores that Jannah will fulfill all desires, tailored uniquely to each believer's wishes, illustrating Allah's boundless ability to reward and please His creation.

Takeaways

• 😀 The last person to leave hell and enter paradise has the least faith but still receives Allah's mercy and reward.
• 😀 This person, initially unable to find a home in paradise, is ultimately granted everything he wishes for and more by Allah.
• 😀 Allah promises the last person to leave hell the entire kingdom of the world multiplied by ten.
• 😀 Allah's generosity is highlighted by His response to the man, giving him far more than he ever imagined.
• 😀 In paradise, people will have everything they desire, customized to their individual preferences and wishes.
• 😀 Jannah (paradise) offers personalized rewards that cater to the unique desires and likes of each person.
• 😀 The Prophet Muhammad (SallAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam) shared stories to illustrate Allah's mercy and the rewards in paradise.
• 😀 In paradise, desires can include activities people enjoyed on Earth, such as farming, which will be fulfilled instantly.
• 😀 Women may choose to experience pregnancy and childbirth in paradise, with the process being quick and painless.
• 😀 Allah knows the best rewards for each individual, even better than they know themselves, ensuring ultimate satisfaction in Jannah.

Q & A

Who narrates the story about the last person to get out of hell and enter paradise?

Abdullah Ibn Masood radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu narrates the story.

What is significant about the faith of the last person to enter paradise?

This person has the very least faith, only an atom's worth of faith in his heart, which is still sufficient for Allah to take him out of hell and enter him into paradise.

What is the initial reaction of the man after he is taken out of hellfire?

The man comes crawling out entirely scorched and says, 'Alhamdulillah I'm done with you,' looking back at hellfire.

What does the man find when he first enters paradise?

He finds that all the homes are occupied, and he doesn't see any place for himself.

How does Allah respond when the man returns saying all the homes are taken?

Allah asks the man to make a wish, and the man wishes for something as great as the entire kingdom of the world.

What does Allah give the man in response to his wish?

Allah grants him what he wished for and the entire world ten times over.

What is the man’s reaction when Allah gives him the entire world ten times over?

The man, thinking it's unbelievable, asks, 'Are you making fun of me, and you are the Lord of all the worlds?' Allah assures him that He is not making fun and that He has power over whatever He wants.

How does Allah personalize paradise for each individual?

Allah promises a paradise that will forever please the individual, tailored to what each person desires and finds joy in, knowing them better than they know themselves.

What does a man who loves farming wish for in paradise, according to the Prophet's narration?

The man wishes to cultivate the land and grow crops himself, and Allah allows him to do so, making the crops grow instantly.

How does Allah address specific and unique desires in paradise?

Allah fulfills all desires in paradise, whether common or unique, ensuring that everyone is pleased. He even caters to desires that may not have been fulfilled in this world.

What assurance does Allah give regarding the desires and pleasures in paradise?

Allah assures that paradise will contain all that the souls desire and the eyes delight in, and that everyone will have everything they ask for and be there forever.

What happens if a woman desires to experience pregnancy and childbirth in paradise?

If a woman desires this, the pregnancy, delivery, and weaning will all take place within a short time as desired, without pain, and the child will be of the age she pleases.

How does Allah handle unnatural desires in paradise?

Allah purifies the desires or perfects the rewards, ensuring that no one is displeased in paradise. He creates desires and their corresponding rewards, providing something better than what can be imagined.

Outlines

00:00

🌟 The Last Person to Enter Paradise

The Prophet Muhammad (SallAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam) narrated about the last person to exit hell and enter paradise. This man, who had the least faith, crawls out of hell scorched, praises Allah, and is instructed to enter Jannah. Upon finding all homes occupied, he returns to Allah who grants him everything he wishes for and more, including ten times the worldly kingdoms. When the man expresses disbelief, thinking Allah is mocking him, Allah reassures him of His omnipotence. The narrative emphasizes Allah's boundless mercy and generosity.

05:02

🌟 Personal Desires in Jannah

Allah promises that in Jannah, all desires will be fulfilled. This concept is illustrated by a Bedouin questioning the Prophet about a farmer who wishes to cultivate land in paradise. Despite already having all he wants, the farmer desires to grow crops, and Allah grants this instantly. This story underlines the individualized rewards in Jannah, where even specific and personal joys are catered to, reflecting Allah's generosity and deep understanding of His creation's desires.

10:04

🌟 Allah’s Customization of Jannah

Jannah is tailored to each individual's desires, even those unmet in the worldly life. For instance, a woman might wish to experience motherhood in paradise. The Prophet explains that such desires will be fulfilled swiftly and without pain. Furthermore, Allah knows and purifies desires, promising satisfaction in Jannah. This segment underscores the idea that Jannah’s rewards are beyond human imagination, perfectly suited to each person's deepest wishes, showcasing Allah's infinite mercy and generosity.

Keywords

💡Jannah

Jannah, or Paradise, in Islamic theology, is the ultimate reward for believers, characterized by eternal bliss and fulfillment of all desires. The video discusses Jannah as a place where the faithful will find personalized joy and contentment, illustrating that even the least faithful, as long as they have a minuscule amount of faith, can eventually attain it.

💡Faith

Faith refers to the belief in Allah and adherence to His commandments. The video's narrative highlights the power of even an 'atom's worth' of faith in leading a person out of Hell (Jahannam) and into Paradise (Jannah), emphasizing the merciful nature of Allah in rewarding even the smallest acts of belief.

💡Hell (Jahannam)

Jahannam, or Hell, is depicted as a place of punishment for the sinful. The script describes a man who is the last to be taken out of Hell due to his minimal faith, showcasing the severe consequences of disbelief but also Allah's ultimate mercy in allowing even the least faithful to enter Paradise.

💡Allah’s Mercy

Allah's mercy is a central theme, demonstrating His boundless compassion and forgiveness. The video illustrates this through the story of a man who, despite his minimal faith, is granted a place in Jannah and given rewards far beyond his imagination, underscoring the idea that Allah's mercy surpasses human understanding.

💡Personalized Reward

Personalized reward in Jannah means that each person's paradise is tailored to their desires and preferences. The video explains that Allah, who knows His creation intimately, promises a paradise that will eternally please each individual, fulfilling even the specific wishes they might have had on Earth.

💡Desires

Desires in the context of Jannah are the personal wishes and wants that believers will have fulfilled. The video highlights that in Paradise, all souls will have their desires met, from enjoying specific activities to experiencing joys they might have missed in their earthly life, indicating the completeness of satisfaction in Jannah.

💡Generosity of Allah

The generosity of Allah is shown through His willingness to grant unimaginable rewards to believers. The video's narrative about the man who receives the world's riches ten times over after exiting Hell demonstrates Allah's immense generosity, providing far more than what is asked or deserved.

💡Prophet Muhammad’s Teachings

Prophet Muhammad's teachings provide insights into the nature of Jannah and Allah's mercy. The video recounts stories narrated by the Prophet (SallAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam) to convey the benevolence of Allah and the beauty of Paradise, illustrating the importance of these teachings in understanding the afterlife.

💡Bedouin’s Interaction

The Bedouin’s interaction with the Prophet (SallAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam) serves to illustrate the varying desires people might have in Jannah. This anecdote shows that even simple desires, like farming, will be honored in Paradise, highlighting the inclusivity and comprehensiveness of Allah’s rewards.

💡Unnatural Desires

Unnatural desires refer to wishes that might not align with typical human nature. The video addresses concerns about such desires, emphasizing that in Jannah, Allah will either purify these desires or provide perfect rewards that will satisfy the soul, ensuring that no one will be displeased in Paradise.

Highlights

The Prophet SallAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam said, 'I have seen the very last person to get out of hell and enter into Jannah.'

This person has the very least faith in hellfire, an atom's worth of faith in his heart, to where Allah takes him out at the very end from Jahannam to enter him into paradise.

The Prophet SallAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam said, he comes crawling out entirely scorched, and he looks back at hellfire and says, 'Alhamdulillah I'm done with you.'

Allah tells him, 'Go ahead and enter into the Garden of Paradise.'

In the Garden of Paradise, he finds that all the homes are occupied and returns to Allah, saying, 'Oh my lord! The people have taken all of the homes.'

Allah says to him, 'Make a wish.' The man wishes for the entire kingdom of the world, everything that existed of kingdom that this dunya ever possessed.

Allah grants him his wish and gives him the whole world ten times over.

The man, astonished, says, 'Are you making fun of me, and you are the Lord of all the worlds?' Allah replies, 'I have power over whatever I want.'

The Prophet SallAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam laughs when recounting this, and his laughter reveals his back teeth.

Jannah is tailored to each person's desires, as Allah promises a paradise that will forever please the individual.

A man in Jannah who loves farming asks Allah to cultivate the land, and his crops grow instantly to mountains.

Even specific desires like pregnancy and having children will be fulfilled in Jannah in a painless and rapid manner.

Allah knows and will fulfill the natural desires of each person, even if they cannot perceive it now.

Trusting Allah in this life means knowing that He will provide something better, and this trust carries into Jannah.

Every du'a made here is responded to with something better, and every wish in Jannah is fulfilled in the best possible way.

Transcripts

Abdullah Ibn Masood radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu narrates that

the prophet SallAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam said

"I have seen the very

last person to get out of hell and enter into Jannah."

Now I want you to think about this man

and there are several narrations about him.

This is the person who has the very least faith

in hellfire, an atom's worth of faith in his heart

to where Allah Subh'anahu Wa Ta-A'la takes him

out at the very end from Jahanam to enter him into paradise.

Yet look how Allah Subh'anahu Wa Ta-A'la is going

to treat this man.

The prophet SallAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam said

he comes crawling

out entirely scorched, and he looks back

at hellfire and he says, "Alhamdulillah I'm done with you."

And then Allah Subh'anahu Wa Ta-A'la tells him

"Go ahead and enter into the Garden of Paradise."

So in this narration, he goes

and he enters into the Garden of Paradise.

But what he finds is

that the people have all occupied their homes.

So imagine he goes through the neighborhoods

of Jannah and he says, "I don't see anything.

It looks like all the houses are occupied."

So he comes back to Allah Subh'anahu Wa Ta-A'la and he says,

"Ya Rab! Qad akhatha al-nas ul-manazil"

"Oh my lord! The people have taken

all of the homes.

There was no for sale sign

there was no home with my name on it.

What do I do?"

And Allah Subh'anahu Wa Ta-A'la says to him,

"Atathkuru zamana alathy kunta feehi"

"Do you even remember the time that you were in?

Like, do you have any recollection of time?

Do you know where you are?

Do you know how long you were in hellfire?

Do you remember anything about your existence

before being in Jahannam for all of those years?"

So he says, "yes."

So Allah Subh'anahu Wa Ta-A'la says to him,

"Tamanna. Make a wish."

So he's going to think and say, "I wish for something

and for the entire kingdom of the world", meaning what?

"Everything that existed of Mulk, of kingdom

that this dunya ever possessed, everything

from Suleiman 'Alayhi Salaam's kingdom

Dawood 'Alayhi Salaam's kingdom

to Firaun and Qarun

Right

I want it all Oh Allah to be given to me."

And Allah Subh'anahu Wa Ta-A'la says to him,

"Fa-inna laka alathy tamanayta,

wa'ashrata adh'afi dunya"

"You know what you have that something that you wished for

and you have the whole world 10 times over."

So this man just got out of hellfire,

has very little belief in his heart, right?

Is the last person to go in.

He couldn't even find a house in Jannah for himself.

And now, he makes a wish

and Allah Subh'anahu Wa Ta-A'la says,

"You get what you wish and I'm gonna give you

the whole world times 10,

everything that existed in this world times 10."

And he says,

"Ya Rab, Oh my Lord,

"Atahza'u minee, wa anta Rabbil'Alameen?

"Are you making fun of me,

And you are the Lord of all the worlds?"

And Ibn Masood radiAllahu Anhu started to laugh.

And he said, "Why are you laughing?"

He said, "Because the prophet SallAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam

started to laugh

and he laughed so much that you could see his back teeth."

And we said, "Ya Rasulallah, why are you laughing?

He said, "Because Allah laughs when the man says this

and says to him, 'I'm not making fun of you

Walaa kinnee 'ala ma asha'u qadir

"But I have power over whatever I want."

Meaning I can do whatever I want.

SubhanAllah

So what is Jannah to you?

It might be different for everyone to an extent

because in this life we don't all like the same things

or necessarily want the same things.

But you have to realize that you're dealing

with Allah Subh'anahu Wa Ta-A'la who created you

who knows what pleases you and is promising you

a paradise that will forever please you.

Now, will what pleases you here be the same thing in Jannah?

In some cases, yes. And in some cases, no,

because we have different wants in Jannah.

But in some ways no two people's Jannah

is going to look exactly the same.

And when Allah Subh'anahu Wa Ta-A'la

speaks about Jannah in the Qur'an,

he's speaking to generally

what will motivate the men and the women.

So Allah Subh'anahu Wa Ta-A'la is giving us things

that fit the majority,

that fit the generalities,

knowing that there are specific things

that different believing men and women are going to want.

And Allah Subh'anahu Wa Ta-A'la is not going to disappoint.

So when you think about Jannah

do you want to fly in Jannah like Ja'far

radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu, with the angels?

Do you want to hang out

and kick back on a particular beach with particular people?

If you're a kid, do you wanna play with your Pokemon cards?

What do you want in Jannah? Jannah is what you want.

Jannah is what you wish.

Allah Subh'anahu Wa Ta-A'la says

wafiha ma tashtahihi l-anfus wataladhul a-'yun

"That in it is all that the souls desire

and the eyes delight in,

wa-antum fiha khalidun

and you will be there forever."

and Allah Subh'anahu Wa Ta-A'la says,

walakum fiha ma tashtahi anfusukum walakum fiha ma tadda'un

"You will have all that your soul desires

and anything you ask for."

So Abu Hurayra radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu

He says that while the prophet SallAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam

was talking one day, there was a Bedouin.

And this Bedouin comes to the

prophet SallAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam

and he hears the prophet SallAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam saying

that a man

from the people of paradise will ask

Allah Subh'anahu Wa Ta-A'la to

cultivate the land so that he could grow crops himself.

Now, basically the prophet SallAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam

is telling us

that this man that enters into Jannah

happens to love to farm.

And so he wants to farm in Jannah.

Now maybe that doesn't resonate with you at all

because you've never experienced what it's like to

grow something and you just wanna relax

in Jannah and eat whatever comes off the tree.

But some people love the experience of seeing something grow

of farming and eating from their own hands.

So Allah Subh'anahu Wa Ta-A'la will ask him

"Didn't you already get everything that you wanted?

Everything you desired?"

And he'll say, "yes, oh, Allah.

But I like to grow things myself.

I want to cultivate the land and grow things myself."

And so Allah Subh'anahu Wa Ta-A'la will say to him, "Fine."

And he will sow the seeds

and within seconds his plants will grow

and ripen and the yield will be harvested

and piled in heaps like mountains.

And Allah Subh'anahu Wa Ta-A'la will say to him,

"Take, O son of Adam,

whatever you like, for nothing seems to satisfy you."

So the Bedouin that was there, he says Ya Rasulallah

"This person must be from Quraysh or they're probably

from the Ansar because they like to farm

and we could care less for farming."

And the prophet SallAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam started to laugh

and 'Ikrima radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu he said

"That a man in paradise just thinks to himself, 'you know

if Allah gives me permission,

I would cultivate my own land.'

And all of a sudden he notices the angels

at his door saying, "As-salamu alayk,

Peace be unto to you.

Your Lord is saying that you had a desire

in your heart and he knew it.

So he sent us with the seeds."

And he'll tell the angels to sow them and they will do so

and they will grow crops like mountains instantly.

This is Jannah, what do you want from it?

Right? And SubhanAllah

this is something that, you know, really speaks

to the generosity of Allah Subh'anahu Wa Ta-A'la,

that a person thinks of Jannah differently

and Allah Subh'anahu Wa Ta-A'la rewards them accordingly.

Now, it may be something you desired

in this dunya that never happened.

So for example:

a woman might want to experience being pregnant

and having children, either because that was a joy for her

or maybe she never had that joy in this dunya.

Even though pregnancy is tough in this dunya

and it comes with a lot of pain

maybe a woman wants to experience that in Jannah again

or for the first time.

So in one narration,

the prophet SallAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam says,

al-mu'minu idhash-tahal wa-lada fil-jannah

kana hamluhu wa-wadʿuhu wa-sinuhu

fi saʿatin kama yashtahi

That if the believer wants to have a child

in paradise, the pregnancy, the delivery

and the weening will all take place within an hour.

And an hour here doesn't mean 60 minutes

but a short time as they desire, a painless process.

Then the child will be the age that they please.

How is that possible?

How do you have kids in Jannah?

What does that look like?

What's the delivery like?

Again, that's not for you to worry about.

Jannah is for you from Allah who knows you best.

Now a question comes up, what about unnatural desires?

You see Allah Subh'anahu Wa Ta-A'la

is speaking to the fitra

of people in the Qur'an,

and he's speaking to things that from

from a fitri perspective, from a natural perspective.

Most women, men, whatever it is

want these things that Allah Subh'anahu Wa Ta-A'la

is saying to them.

But what if you have an unnatural desire?

Does Allah purify the desire

or does Allah Subh'anahu Wa Ta-A'la perfect the reward?

See, here's the thing.

Just because you desire something now doesn't mean

that you will there.

And Allah Subh'anahu Wa Ta-A'la is promising you

that you won't be displeased in Jannah.

Allah is the one who creates your desires.

Then Allah Subh'anahu Wa Ta-A'la creates the rewards

that suit those desires.

And part of Tawakkul, or trusting

Allah Subh'anahu Wa Ta-A'la

in this life, is what? It's knowing that Allah will give you

something better even if you can't see it.

And in Jannah, you trust that Allah Subh'anahu Wa Ta-A'la

will give you

an unseen reward that is better than anything you

could have imagined, even if you can't perceive that now.

So even if you never heard a single description of Jannah

it would be enough to know

that Allah Subh'anahu Wa Ta-A'la has

customized a Jannah for you that he knows will please you.

But Allah Subh'anahu Wa Ta-A'la still tells us

some of the specifics to appeal to us.

And even that alone is from his generosity and mercy.

Know that every du'a that you make here is only responded

to with better.

And every wish that you make there is only

responded to with better.

Ya ayatuha

nafsul

mutma'innah

irji'i

ila rabbiki raadiyatan

mardiyyah

fadkhuli fi 'ibadi wadkhuli

jannati

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