Do Ye Deem That Ye Would Enter Paradise?

 

Condition for entrance in the Garden (L-463)

أَمْحَسِبْتُمْ أَن تَدْخُلُوا۟ ٱلْجَنَّةَ وَلَمَّا يَعْلَمِ ٱللَّهُ ٱلَّذِينَ جَٰهَدُوا۟ مِنكُمْ وَيَعْلَمَ ٱلصَّٰبِرِينَ 142.  وَلَقَدْ كُنتُمْ تَمَنَّوْنَ ٱلْمَوْتَ مِن قَبْلِ أَن تَلْقَوْهُ فَقَدْرَأَيْتُمُوهُ وَأَنتُمْ تَنظُرُونَ 143.

142.  ‘Am  hasibtum  ‘an-  tad-khulul-Jannata  wa  lammaa  ya’-laMillaahul-laziina  jaaha-duu  minkum  wa  ya’-lamas-Saabiriin. 143.  Wa  laqad  kuntum  taman-nawnal-mawta  min  qabli  ‘an-talqawh; faqad  ra-‘aytumuuhu  wa  ‘antum  tanzuruun. (Section 14/5)

142. Or do you expect to enter Paradise, before God has distinguished those among you who strive, and before He has distinguished the steadfast? 143. You used to wish for death before you have faced it. Now you have seen it before your own eyes.

It has been mentioned in this verse, “Do you consider that you would reach there easily and comfortably, where God wishes to cause the Muslims to arrive (at most dignified places of the Paradise and higher grades)? In addition, will God not observe through your test and trial, that how many of you are those who really strive and who are steadfast? Keep it in your minds that only those people are caused to reach the superior posts, who are ready to sacrifice their lives and bear every kind of hardness and severity in the Path of God.

The companions (May God be pleased with them) who could not participate in the Battle of Badr, they used to long for it that God should produce another chance again, so that ‘we’ also may achieve the grade of martyrdom in the Way of God. It has been commanded in this verse, “The longing, which you had earlier in your breasts, that chance has come before you. That is to say; you wished to strive with the fondness of martyrdom in the Path of God. At this time, treacherous powers are before you. How strange is it if; instead of going ahead, now you want to withdraw? Moreover, you would have to fulfill the desires of your hearts.

It has come in the Sayings of the Messenger (ﷺ), “Do never wish to fight the enemy. However, if the time has come and you have been compelled to fight, then you must remain steadfast and strive the crusade if the enemy has been challenging you.   

It is evident from these verses that to acquire the result of goodness, someone has to bear the difficulties in the Way of God. Test and trial declares that, “who deserves the Paradise? Who has the right to become its heir? In such a manner, the Muslims would have to confront different kinds of calamities and troubles to enter the Paradise. Therefore, they should remain steadfast and patient. https://youtu.be/qzsOWhSiciI