Hadith 219

from the accusations, and muted their tongues from speaking among the exposure of the people, and deafened their hearing from diving into a discourse, and they darkened their eyes by shutting their eyes from the disobedience, and ended up to the house of peace which, one who enters it is secure from the doubts and the grief. Perhaps you may pre-occupy your looking at the world from looking at the house of Allah-azwj the Glorious Created it from white pearls, and Cleaved its rivers in it, and clasped it with the virgins from its Houries, then Settled His-azwj friends and the people of His-azwj obedience. If you were to see them, O Ahnaf, and they have proceeded upon the increases of their Lord-azwj the Glorious, sounds of their rides with such sounds, no listener has heard sounds better than these, and the clouds would shade them and rain upon them the musk and the saffron, and their horses would come to be between the forestation of those Gardens, and their rides would leave them between the piles of the saffron and they would tread upon the pearls and the coral under their feet, and the butlers would welcome them with basins of basil, and a breeze would stir for them from the direction of the Throne, scattering towards them the jasmine and the chrysanthemum. They would go to its door, and the door would be opened for them by Rizwaan, then they would be performing Sajdah to Allah-azwj in the courtyard of the Gardens’. So, the Compeller would Say to them: “Raise your heads, for I-azwj have Raised from you the provision of the worship and Settled you in a Garden of the Rizwaan! ”
If it is lost from you, O Ahmad, what I-asws have mentioned in the middle of my-asws speech, they (enemies) would be left in trousers of tar and would be left to circle between it and a spring of boiling water, and would be quenched a boiling hot drink. On that day, how many would be in the Fire of crushed ribs, maimed faces, and scorched, struck upon the noses, the palms have been eaten, the (iron) ring having been tightened in his neck. If you were to see them, O Ahnaf, they would be rolling down in their valleys, and ascending its mountains, and they would be wearing the pieces of tar, and chained with its immoral ones and its Satans-la. Whenever they cry out from the burning, its scorpions and its snakes would be intensified upon them. And if you could see a Caller Calling out, and he would be saying, ‘O people of Paradise and its bounties! And O people of its garments and its ornaments! Abide eternally and you will not die! ’ During it, their (enemies) hopes would be terminated, and the doors would be closed, and the means (of good) would be cut off from them. On that day, how many old people would cry out, ‘Alas, old age! ’ And how many youths would cry out, ‘Alas, young age! ’ And how many women would call out, ‘Alas, its exposure! ’
The veils would be torn apart from them, so, on that day, how many would be drowning between its layers, contained. O, for you are washed clothes of yours after the cotton clothes and the cooled water upon the walls, and eating the variety of foods after the variety of clothes, not leaving for you any hair except white, nor any