What Every Person Needs To Know About Jannah (Paradise) Episode 42 Earning The Blessings Of Paradise Does Not Mean One Has To Forego The Pleasures Of This World

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*What Every Person Needs To Know About Jannah (Paradise)*

*Episode 42*

*Earning The Blessings Of Paradise Does Not Mean One Has To Forego The Pleasures Of This World*

Monks and ascetics, and many of the believers of this ummah think that the blessings of the 

hereafter cannot be attained without giving up the good things and pleasures of this world. So you see them punishing themselves and making life hard for themselves with non-stop 

fasting and [qiyaam] praying at night. Some of them even deny themselves good food, drink 

and clothing and reject work and marriage. All of this is wrong, for Allah has created the good things of this world for the believers, and He denounces those who forbid the beautiful 

things that Allah (Subhanahu Wa Ta’ala) has created for His slaves:

"Say: "Who has forbidden the adornment with clothes given by Allah, which He has produced for His slaves, and at-Tayyibaat [all kinds of lawful things] of food?" Say: 

"They are in the life of this world, for those who believe, [and] exclusively for them [believers] on the Day of Resurrection [the disbelievers will not share them]." [7:32]

This world is only condemned when it distracts the believer from the Hereafter, but if he treats it as a means of achieving success in the akhirah then its pleasures need not be spurned, as some people think.