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Slave of Allah (SWT)
THE PEOPLE OF PARADISE
Source: Majmoo ul-Fatawa, Volume 18, with some abridgement
Source: Majmoo ul-Fatawa, Volume 18, with some abridgement
Allah ‘azza wa jall says:
“That home of the Hereafter (i.e. Paradise), We shall assign to those who desire not high-handedness or mischief in the land. And the good end is for the Muttaqun (pious).”
[Al-Qasas 28:83]
Shaikh ul-Islaam Ibn Taymiyyah (rahimuhullah) said, in explaining the above verse [of Surah al-Qasas]:
“…For people are of four types:
The first type:
They desire elevation over the people and corruption in the earth, and this is disobedience to Allah. Such mischief-making kings and leaders are like Pharaoh and his party, and they are the worst of all of creation.
The second type:
Those who desire corruption without elevation, such as the thieves and criminals from the riff-raff amongst the people.
The third type:
Those who desire elevation without corruption, such as those who have the deen, they desire to elevate themselves by it over other than them amongst the people.
And as for the fourth type:
They are the people of Paradise, those who seek neither elevation in the earth and nor corruption – along with the fact that they are (indeed) much higher than those besides them.”
