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Inner Peace … A.A Barati and M. Fahami / (17

                  The     Quran     says    that     of  other  religions.  This  multi
               Muhammad  was  sent  as  a            cultural  Muslim  paradise  is
               warner to his people and to the       described as lush and verdant,
               world,  that  the  Judgment  day      with  water  flowing  and  a
               is coming, when people will be        cornucopia of delights provided.
               resurrected  from  their  graves         Quran assures the believers:

               and judged by God. The good                  “Therein they will hear
               or the people of the right hand,             no  abusive  speech,  nor
               will  go  to  heaven,  while  the            any talk of sin, only the
               wicked  will  be  consigned  to              saying,  peace,  peace”.
               the torments of hell.                        (Quran, 56: 25-26)
                  Heaven,  a  repository  of
               human aspirations, is depicted           In heaven, Quran promises:

               by  the  Quran  as  suffused  by             “And  they  are  among
               peace.  In  the  Quran  says  that           the  companions  of  the
               the    virtuous    admitted    to            right  hand,  then  they
               paradise  are  greeted  by  the              will  be  greeted,  ‘Peace
               angels with the saying:                      be  to  you,’  by  the
                      “Enter  in  peace!’  That             companions of the right

                      is  the  day  of  eternity”.          hand”. (Quran, 56: 90-91)
                      (Quran, 50: 34)                   And  says  that  after  the
                                                     Resurrection:
                  The Quran admits that most
               of    those    who     will    be            “The  dwellers  in  the
               resurrected  are  ancients,  not             garden on that day will

               moderns,  i.e.  that  most  of  the          delight  in  their  affairs;
               inhabitants  of  heaven  will  be            they  and  their  spouses
               Jews, Christians and  members                will  repose  on  couches
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