Run to paradise - A short talk by Bilal Assad [HIYC]
By Belal Assad | 2026-01-15T19:43:27.517237+00:00 | Topic: Hereafter
Run to Paradise - A Walk Through Jannah
A Khutbah by Bilal Assad
Opening
السَّلَامُ عَلَيْكُمْ وَرَحْمَةُ اللَّهِ وَبَرَكَاتُهُ
(بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ - bismillahir-rahmanir-rahim)
الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ، وَالصَّلَاةُ وَالسَّلَامُ عَلَى أَشْرَفِ الْأَنْبِيَاءِ وَالْمُرْسَلِينَ، نَبِيِّنَا مُحَمَّدٍ وَعَلَى آلِهِ وَصَحْبِهِ أَجْمَعِينَ
Introduction
Brothers and sisters in Islam, I'm here to talk to you about one of my favorite topics, and that is the description of Jannah. Let's take a walk, through this place which Allah has promised those who are God conscious, in private and in open.
Imam al-Nawawi says there are four fundamentals for the person who wants to enter paradise:
1. To strive hard in worship
2. To pardon others who have wronged you
3. To restrain your anger
4. To abstain from the haram things as much as you can
That is the road to Jannah. My brothers and sisters in Islam, I begin with a verse in Surah Ali Imran, where Allah makes a comparison between the world we live in, and the world that is next which He has promised.
The Reality of This World Versus the Hereafter
Allah says in the Quran:
"Know that this worldly life is nothing but play, and entertainment, and decorations, and competition boasting over what I have and what you have among each other, and raising and gathering loads and herds of wealth and children. It is like a rain—the disbelievers like its vegetation, then it fades, and you see it yellow, then it
becomes debris. And in the hereafter is a severe punishment, and forgiveness from Allah, and pleasure. And the life of this world is nothing but the enjoyment of delusion."
Reference: Quran 57:20
This is the example of the worldly life. Just like a cloud that comes and pleases farmers, it begins to rain and produce crops of abundance. Then those crops, after a little while, wither away till the next season. So you enjoy it for a little bit, and it's gone.
In the hereafter, there will be harsh torment and forgiveness from Allah, and with Allah is the best of rewards.
The Promise of Something Greater
Do you know what Allah then says?
أَفَمَن يُلْقَىٰ فِي النَّارِ خَيْرٌ أَم مَّن يَأْتِي آمِنًا يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ
"Do you want Me to tell you something better than all of that? Something greater than all of this that people strive for?"
For those who fear Allah and abstain from the things which anger Him, with their Lord are many paradises. Jannat is the plural for Jannah. Allah has installed many, many gardens for one single person, beneath which rivers flow, and pure beautiful spouses, and a pleasure from your Lord. Allah is aware, watching everyone.
The Reality of Jannah
Brothers and sisters in Islam, you've all heard about paradise, you've all heard about Jannah, and some people think of it as a fantasy. They can't really grasp the reality of it. Let me draw a picture for you and give an analogy, and try my best to bring you close to the description of Jannah.
But at the same time, I don't think anyone has succeeded in describing Jannah, because the Prophet ﷺ did say:
فِيهَا مَا لَا عَيْنٌ رَأَتْ وَلَا أُذُنٌ سَمِعَتْ وَلَا خَطَرَ عَلَى قَلْبِ بَشَرٍ
"In paradise there are things that no eye has ever seen, no ear has ever heard, and it hasn't even occurred to the heart of any creation."
Reference: Sahih al-Bukhari 3244, Sahih Muslim 2824
You know when you say خَطَرَ or خَاطِرَة it's like a thought. And when Allah is using قَلْب meaning the heart, not only is it a thought in the brain, but even a thought in feelings. No one has ever experienced this. You know sometimes you say to yourself, I feel like something but I don't know how to describe it. Have you ever gone
through that type of feeling? I feel like I want some kind of enjoyment and there's something I want but I can't name it, but I feel it. Allah says even that—no one has ever experienced that type of feeling. There are things in Jannah like that. So how can I describe it? But we can give a little tiny example of what Jannah is like.
The Journey to Jannah Begins
Since my topic is a walk into Jannah, then let me begin with the verse of the Quran where Allah tells us where that walk begins.
Allah says in Surah al-Zumar:
"And so the ones who are pious and God-fearing shall be escorted line by line, by rows, to Jannah."
Reference: Quran 39:73
You know why they are in rows? Because everybody will be gathered with the ones whom they used to love the most. And according to your deeds, you will be in the front row or the second row or third row or fourth row and so on.
Entering the Gates of Jannah
"How beautiful is that picture. They are escorted by the angels, rows after rows, according to where they belong, according to their deeds and status. And then when they reach, at the doors of Jannah, the door is opened."
Reference: Quran 39:73
The angels who are standing to welcome the people, they say to them the first word. What do you think they say first thing? Peace. Because this is what we're all yearning for. We're yearning for the everlasting comfort of peace in our heart and for the rest of our life—physically, in our feelings, in our ears, with what we see, with how we speak.
And that's the first thing the angels say:
"Peace be upon you. Oh how pure and wonderful you are. Now enter it, everlasting entrance."
Reference: Quran 39:73
The First to Enter Jannah
Brothers and sisters in Islam, I want to describe that moment when you're about to enter Jannah, and then as you enter it. You come to the doors of Jannah, and you don't enter it straight away, because guess who has to open the door? He is Muhammad. And he grabs the ring. Allah knows what that ring looks like. Allah only knows the perfect description of this door. It's a marvelous door, a huge door, very wide—hundreds of kilometers wide in fact, because Allah's doors to Jannah are wide and His generosity is immense.
The first one to knock on it is Muhammad. And the guardian behind the door, the angel, asks, "Who is it?" And he says with all humbleness, "Ana Muhammad" (I am Muhammad). And the angel says, "Bika umirtu alla aftaha illa lak" (It is you who I have been commanded to not open the door to anyone but you).
And the door is opened. He is the one privileged, our Prophet Muhammad. Imagine, brothers and sisters, if you are the first group that enters with the Prophet.
The Waiting Area Before Jannah
Now, the other people who are waiting—you see people come in lines. And as you come to the doors of Jannah, there is like a waiting area. And the doors get crowded, very crowded according to the hadith, even though they are hundreds of kilometers wide. And the people want to race in there.
There are people waiting. You know when you go first class on an aeroplane and you are going overseas somewhere? You go first class and you get to wait in this beautiful, luxurious area with special services. So you are waiting there. And the first thing that you are given is to quench your thirst. After all this time of waiting on the Day of Judgment, you are given wine which is mixed with ginger to refresh yourself in the waiting area.
And you are with these beautiful people with bright faces. They are all smiling. They are all cheerful. They are all telling you, "Come and read my book!" And you say, "Read mine!" And they say, "Well, you know, what about mine? Look what I have done here." And Allah has wiped away all the sins. No one knows them. They are a secret between you and Allah. And you begin to boast about your books out of happiness. And no one feels jealous of anyone else for some reason.
The Transformation of Hearts
The feelings are starting to change. Because Allah says in the Quran:
وَنَزَعْنَا مَا فِي صُدُورِهِم مِّنْ غِلَّ
The Trees and Landscape of Jannah
Brothers and sisters in Islam, you enter Jannah and you are escorted to your palace. And you're looking around, and you see these beautiful trees, the trunks made of gold. What's that? Made of gold? Is it like the gold of this world? No. They're silver. Is it like the silver of this world? No. You look at them, you say, this is gold, that's silver, but it's not like any gold I've ever seen before, or silver I've ever seen.
The trunks are huge. The leaves are massive. The shade is humongous. There are trees that take a horse to gallop very fast, as in the hadith, a very fast swift horse, for three days to cross just the shade of some of its trees. So you're escorted along the way.
And your eyes have already been taken away by the beauty of everything that you see. You're taken away by the beauty of the pebbles that you're stepping on, the normal dirt that you're walking on, the saffron, the grass which you see in front of you. You are taken away, and you think, is this my land? Is this my land? Are these my palaces? No, they're not. That's just the standard of Jannah.
Your Transformation
And you're going. Suddenly your face changes. Your body changes. Your appearance changes. Everything about you changes. You enter, and you reach your palace. And there you see your palace, minimum, made of golden bricks and silver bricks. It has been kept together with musk, pure musk. How? Allahu alam (Allah knows best).
And the light is humongous. It emanates from the Arsh of Allah. That's the light of Jannah. There's no sun. The light comes from the throne of Allah. When you reach that palace, over there, there are some people waiting for you.
Meeting Your Spouse in Jannah
The people who are waiting for you—number one is your spouse, your wife. Now the sisters are thinking, how did I get there first? Well, you've been escorted by angels, and you're gift-wrapped and prepared. You see, we have this—I do marriages a lot, and there are sometimes situations where I get the aris, the groom, after I've done his katb-i-ktab, his marriage, and I like to encourage him, I go, "Come with me so we can get the signature of the sister. You come with me and her father."
And I've made that a couple of times, mistakes, because some cultures, they don't allow the groom to see the wife until I don't know when, because they're preparing her. They're not meant to see her. The point that I'm trying to make is, just like here in this world, the bride is prepared, and she has more time to get ready, much more time to get ready, until the groom comes along, and then he meets her, and his eyes drop out of his face, and he cannot believe what he's seeing.
Well, you know, in Jannah, she's also prepared that way. And the angels have prepared her with a beautiful dress. And she looks amazing.
The Story of the Old Man
There's a story my father told me. He says, they went to a funeral once, and there was an old man, probably about eighty years old. His wife had died. May Allah have mercy on her. And the sheikh said, "Oh Allah, unite him and her in Jannah forever." Now, the old man is crying. He says, "Wallah, I miss my wife, ya sheikh, but come on, you know, it's been seventy years together. I have to stay with her forever?" Then he starts talking, "But I've had this trouble and that problem with her, and then I'm going to have an old woman again in Jannah? I want some of those other women up there."
So, the sheikh said to him, "But if you see your wife in Jannah, she's not going to look the same at all as here, nor are you. She'll be transformed." I met one of those older people, and I said to him, "When you see your wife in Jannah, you're going to look at her and think, 'Oh my God, it's the Hurul Ain. Allahu Akbar.'"
One thread of her hair, if it were to be shown on the earth, it would light up more than the sun. In the hadith, if she spat in the ocean, it will turn it all sweet. And then they tell her, "This is your wife." And he'll say, "SubhanAllah, how beautiful she is." And they'll say, "That was your wife in the former world." He says, "No, no, no, this is not my wife. It can't be. My other wife used to be like this, and she used to give me a headache..."
They say, "Yes, it is, but Allah has taken away all the negativity from you and her, and all the ugliness, and everything that used to exist." I'm not saying that they're ugly here. I'm saying the ugliness, whatever exists of ugliness in men and women, and we all have that. In Jannah, brothers and sisters, she will be the most desired to him, the former wife.
Do you think that the women of Jannah are prettier than the women of this world who enter Jannah? I'm of the opinion that they're not, by far. In fact, seventy multiples is minimum of beauty and desire and attractiveness. She is the perfect one who Allah has given her reward for working hard in this world, and he also.
The Palaces and Rooms of Jannah
My brothers and sisters in Islam, the palaces are humongous. I can't even describe how big they are. One room in there, on standard level—standard is about sixty miles long. And how many rooms are in there? Uncountable. How many palaces are there in your land? Allahu Akbar. Count, and you'll keep counting.
The Welcome Feast
Brothers and sisters, what have you got prepared there? Now obviously, when you enter a place, and you're a guest, and people wanna welcome you, it's an opening. You know, like when we have a restaurant, and you wanna open it for the first time, or you wanna go into your home, or you wanna receive your car, and if your husband loves you, or your wife wants to get you a car, she makes it really nice, and puts perfume in there, and puts you a little flower in there.
And then you enter Jannah, and in that palace, the angels have prepared an exquisite meal for you and your wife and the inhabitants of Jannah. There is a meal and a feast that you are going to receive as a welcome to all the inhabitants of Jannah.
What is it? First of all, you get appetizers. As in the Hadith, the appetizer is—and be patient with me when you hear it—it is the most tender part of the liver of a whale, fish. And you're thinking to yourself, liver? I don't even eat liver here, man. In Jannah, it's the first thing I say to you. It's a delicacy up there that makes you so hungry and wanting, wanting you to desire the real food.
And when you say liver, and when you say meat, and when you say all these things in Jannah, it tastes nothing like over here. I mean, remember the first time you ever tasted a food that you don't like? But when you were a baby, you thought everything was really, really tasty. My daughter first started off on the normal milk from her mother, and then we put her on this formula milk, and now she wants the formula milk, and then you want to get her off the formula milk, and the first time she tastes normal milk, then she wants normal milk, then she tastes honey, and now she wants honey, and then she tastes this other food, which you and I really see as quite normal, but for the baby it's something amazing because it's the first time they taste.
But the first time you taste something that wasn't desirable, you get an experience, and that's why you don't like it. But in Jannah, when you say liver of the whale, it's not like the liver that you taste here. It's not like the fish that you taste here if you don't like fish. But beyond your imagination, you'll say, "Oh my God, this fish is something else," and then it tastes like cake. Cake? Cake is nothing. And up there, this is the appetizer.
And then the angels say to you, "Eat, eat," and you can't get enough of it. One tiny tender part of the liver of the whale feeds the whole of the inhabitants of Jannah as an appetizer.
The Main Feast
Then you get wine from a fountain called Salsabil, but it's not intoxicant. And then the feast comes along. The angels bring to you the meat of beef. It is a buffalo that has been grazing in the most tender parts of the grasses of Jannah since the day Jannah was created, prepared for you. And it will be slaughtered, and then you will eat from its meat. You will eat beef.
And you're thinking to yourself, but I don't like beef in this world. Well, in Jannah, it's not the same beef. And guess what? It's been mixed with all the spices and all the things that you love. And Allah has created these angels or these people who make it. And they are chefs. Imagine being created a chef by Allah to do that. This is what you will eat.
And you have company. The best company is your spouse.
The Servants of Jannah
Brothers and sisters in Islam, there are other things and maidens and people who come and serve you. Allah describes them in the Quran. You will look at them as if they were pearls. Beautiful light. They are young people. Are they boys? Are they girls? The ulama have given different opinions.
But they are not ones as the people-haters of Islam—talk about them and say that, you know, it talks about young boys that are desired. No. But these are servants for you. And they bring happiness to your eyes. And all they do is they want to make things good for you. And they are very happy to please you and to serve you. These are your servants.
You live like a king upon a king, upon a king, upon a king. I mean, the least person who gets in Jannah is as much as seven kings. And in the hadith, he gets as much as the world by tenfold. And this is the last person who enters paradise.
The Interior Design
Brothers and sisters in Islam, who has decorated your palace? There are special creatures in Jannah whom Allah has created to decorate your palace. So forget about all the interior designers that you've ever thought of. These are the best. Allah has created them to decorate and design the interior of your palace. Colors, colors that you have never imagined, could never have known, exist in there.
The Rivers of Jannah
Brothers and sisters in Islam, and then you have tours, guides, who show you around Jannah. You come past these special rivers—they are four of them. And they exist throughout Jannah for all the inhabitants of Jannah, let alone the rivers that are specifically for you. You have your own rivers and you have rivers for all the people of Jannah who drink from.
They are rivers of milk, a river of water that never goes off, a river of honey that is pure, and a river of wine. Again, don't think water of this world, milk of this world, honey of this world, or wine of this world. You keep drinking from it and drinking from it and you never get enough.
The tour that's with you will say to you, "That's enough." And you say, "But we haven't had enough. We keep on staying here for hundreds of years." They say, "Come, let's taste the fruit."
The Fruits of Jannah
So you go to taste the fruit and you find an apple, apple tree. You say, you know, I know this is an apple tree, but it doesn't look like the apple trees I used to eat. Why do I think it's an apple tree? Because Allah gives you that know-how about your Jannah. You know it's an apple. You come to taste and you say to yourself, it's not like any apple I've ever tasted before. And every bite you take of that apple, the next bite is different to the former bite.
The tour says to you, "Let's move on." You say, "But I haven't had enough of this." Because you see, what happens in Jannah is that you can never get full and you can never get hungry. But always, what are you? You can never get enough of something. You can never get full. You can never get hungry.
No Impurities in Jannah
You don't go to the toilet. I see the young boys and girls here. You don't go to the toilet there ever again. So you don't have to worry about your mums and dads telling you, "Did you go to the toilet this morning?" Up there there's no toilet. You don't need to. There's nothing that smells anymore. You don't sweat anything smelly.
One Jewish man said to the Prophet ﷺ
One Jewish man said to the Prophet ﷺ, he said to him, a group of them said, "In Jannah you eat?" He says, "Yes, you eat." "And you drink?" He says, "You drink." And Prophet ﷺ said to him, "You have the strength of one hundred men. You even cohabitate, have intercourse, and the strength of one hundred men."
So there is all sorts of desires up there. Yes, all your desires are met. Then he says to him, "Okay, well where does the food and drink go then? And I thought that in Jannah there's no smell and no impurities." And Rasul ﷺ answered him by saying, "It comes out as sweat."
Now before you think smelly sweat, there is no smelly sweat in Jannah. It comes out like pure musk. I'm sure a lot of you like to pour on perfume before you go out. When you first met, to get married when you were engaged, lots of perfume. Six months down the track, I don't know what happens, but it shouldn't stop.
Brothers and sisters in Islam, that sweat is like perfume and musk. It fills Jannah.
The Variety of Fruits
And so you go, eating from the fruit. Then you come to another apple tree. You say, "But we just ate an apple tree before." And he says, "No, this is different." Allah says in the Quran:
"And you'll be given fruits that look like other fruits, but they taste absolutely different."
And you keep eating as much as you can, never get full. What is only left in Jannah? Just the beautiful desire and enjoyment. That's all that's left. It's just pure enjoyment. You can never get enough of everything.
You can swim in a river made of chocolate and eat chocolate fish if you want. And you will never get enough because there's no diabetes, there's no issues of overweight, there's no issues of underweight, there's no issues of anything at all. Brothers and sisters in Islam, Jannah is just pure enjoyment.
No Negativity in Jannah
All the negativities that a person feels in this life—sickness, tiredness, boredom. My son always says, "I'm bored. I'm bored." In Jannah there is no boredom. Everlasting enjoyment means boredom does not exist. It's impossible for boredom to exist.
All of those negativities are given to the people of hellfire:
"And Allah does not punish like that anyone."
And everything that's left of positiveness and enjoyment is given for the people of paradise. How do I know? Allah has given us—this is what He says in the Quran—but Allah gives us an example of those feelings in our life here. You know when you live here, as we're living, we enjoy things, and we have harm from things. The same things we enjoy, we get harm from.
So if you like strawberry cake or chocolate cake, you like strawberry or chocolate? It's bad for your teeth, guys. In Jannah, nothing's bad for your teeth. You keep eating chocolate, you keep eating chocolate in Jannah, and you will never get enough of it, and you'll never get sick of it.
Here in this world, you eat the most beautiful food you like, but then at the end you get too full. Suddenly you feel sick if you eat too much of it. And then after that, you might hate that food after, isn't that right? Well in Jannah, this doesn't happen.
No Death in Jannah
You're thinking about the buffalo, the poor buffalo that was slaughtered. Well in Jannah, there's no death. So what happens to the animals that you eat? Because you eat birds over there as well. You wish for a bird, and you eat it. The bird comes back alive. But you actually enjoy its meat. You might not like birds, but in Jannah, it's not the same bird.
Brothers and sisters in Islam, in Jannah you are enjoying all of this, and enjoying your spouses, and enjoying your palaces, and all these people who are serving you, and the food, and the water, and the fruits, and all these beautiful blisses, wishing for whatever you want to wish for.
The Markets of Jannah
Now it's taking your mind away. Someone calls out and says, "There is a market here where you can buy things." Buy? You actually don't buy. You just go there, you wish, you look, you like, you take.
There's a hadith of the Prophet ﷺ that says in that market, a person will see a portrait. You grab a portrait, and there's a nice painting on it. Someone's painted a nice painting of this gorgeous, beautiful, gorgeous, handsome man. The man looks at it and says, "I wish I looked like that man." He goes home. His wife is waiting.
By the way, wives can go shopping there. And oh my God, shopping is a big thing for women in this world. How could it not be in Jannah then? You can go shopping. However, you meet again at home. And suddenly she looks at you and says, "Hey, you look more handsome than before. You look brighter. You look very
handsome." And you say to her, "And you look more beautiful than you were the first time I met you. What's happened?"
And he says, "I just went shopping." She says, "Please go shopping again and again." It's not like here, brothers. I know you get bored of shopping here when you go out with your wife. But over there, you'll love to go shopping together.
Meeting the Prophets and Companions
Brothers and sisters in Islam, when you go shopping there in those markets, you meet other people. You meet the Prophet ﷺ. You meet the other Prophets. And you meet all the angels. And you meet other people with higher places. You meet Abu Bakr, Umar, Uthman, Ali and all those other companions. You meet all these other people.
And you shake hands. And you hug. What happens? Because their light is greater and their fragrance is greater, naturally, what happens in Jannah? You attract some of their beauty and their light. And you attract some of their fragrance. And that's why when you come back, you look nicer and you smell nicer.
There's also a breeze that hits. Sometimes it comes through. And that breeze carries with it a beautiful musk or a beautiful fragrance. And it increases your beauty. Allah is able to have infinite—make beauty in infinite levels. Beauty upon beauty upon beauty. It never ends.
Enjoyment Without Limits
You're enjoying all of this brothers and sisters. And by the way brothers, please don't disturb me. If I enter Jannah ya Rabb, I'll have "do not disturb" for a thousand years. But if you wanna meet, I'll come to your palace, you can come to mine. And we can party there all night long.
In Jannah, there is no night however. So what are we gonna do? You can wish for your own little night. Why not? You can wish for your own little sleep.
Children and Farming in Jannah
One companion said, "Ya Rasulullah, can a woman get pregnant in Jannah? I want children." That's how they used to ask their questions. Rasulullah ﷺ says, "A woman gets pregnant in one hour and gives birth and returns back to the way she was as if she was untouched. And there is no agony or pain if you want children."
May Allah give your offspring a comfort to your eyes.
Brothers and sisters in Islam, one companion called out and says, "Ya Rasulullah, what about plantation? Can I farm in Jannah?" The guy wants to farm and plow and dig and plant. Rasulullah ﷺ smiled and he said, "Allahu Akbar. In Jannah, you plant the seed and suddenly the beauty of your crops begins to race with your eyes."
Meaning your eyes and the beauty and the growth—it's in a race now. You can't catch up.
And then another man said, "Ya Rasulullah, Wallahi, there must be some Muhajirun Ansari because we don't like farming, man. We're going to go up there and farm and plow. What's wrong with you people?"
A Story About Paradise
Wallahi, I met once a Jehovah's Witness. Her name was Maria. And she opened up the Bible—she thought it was the Bible—and she showed me a beautiful picture, well, a painting of this white man and an African looking woman. My son calls them brown. A brown woman carrying apples on her head and this white man, he was plowing. And they were looking at each other and they were smiling. And there was a lion that was playing with a butterfly and sheep and children and snakes. No one's harming everyone.
She said to me, "Isn't that beautiful?" I asked her, "What is that?" She said, "That's Jannah. That's paradise. Can't you see there's no difference between whites and blacks? There is no difference. There's no harm. The children are playing around the lion and the lion is playing with the butterfly. It's beautiful and peace."
I said, "I might as well stay dead forever." She asked me why. I said, "All I see is a man plowing again and a woman carrying apples up the hill. You're going to have to go to work again? Paradise, there is no more work. There is no more worship. None of that ever again."
The Greatest Gift: Seeing Allah
I finally conclude with this, my dear sisters and brothers in Islam. So now you're taken away by all this beauty, and you've forgotten about something which is the most important and the most beautiful gift that the believers are given. Because everything is so beautiful.
There's one hadith that says the last man who enters paradise-he sees a light coming down from above and he thinks it's Allah, but it's actually his wife. Really? That's how beautiful you are.
And then someone calls out to come to a gathering place. You all gather and you sit in different positions. Some people first class, second class. In fact in the hadith it says that you look at the people of higher superiority like the way you see stars here because of their good actions.
Everybody's sitting there and no one, there's no obstacles in front of you. Suddenly you hear someone and He says to you, "My servants or My worshippers, are you pleased?" And you say, "Oh our Lord, we are pleased."
And then Allah says, "Behold, there will be pleasure from Me upon you forever and I will never ever be displeased with you. Is there anything that is missing that you still want?" And we say, "Oh our Lord, how could there be anything else when You have saved us from the fire and put us into Jannah?"
And then Allah says, "There is one more promise that I have yet to fulfill. I have not fulfilled it yet. And now is the time."
So you're sitting with your spouses and with all the inhabitants of Jannah in one place and then Allah releases the veil and you see Allah. You see Allah.
Allah says in the Quran:
"On that day, faces will be bright, looking at their Lord."
And Ibn Al-Qayyim says in his beautiful poem—but in English it doesn't sound nice—what he says is: They look at their Lord and suddenly there is no more beautiful thing that they have ever laid their eyes on after what they have laid their eyes on already from the beauty of Jannah than the sight of the Lord.
When you see Allah, you forget all the beauty that you have ever seen until this point. Allahu Akbar. And what could describe the beauty of Allah? Nothing. Nothing.
Conclusion
Brothers and sisters in Islam, I ask Allah to grant us this beautiful reward of the sight of Allah, for it is a reward. It is not something which Allah kept away from us deliberately just so that He can make us like a punishment in this world or anything, but because the sight of Him is a reward and it is a pleasure in itself. And Jannah is all about seeing Allah and speaking to Allah finally.
I ask Allah to make Jannah our abode. I ask Allah to forgive our sins. I ask Allah to accept our deeds.
Brothers and sisters in Islam, you want Jannah? Jannah? Then now is the time to work for it.
وَالسَّلَامُ عَلَيْكُمْ وَرَحْمَةُ اللَّهِ وَبَرَكَاتُهُ
End of Khutbah