THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE ANIMALS OF PARADISE

ADNAN OKTAR'S LIVE INTERVIEW ON TEMPO TV (March 3, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: ... And the snake in Paradise may be very pleasant and delightful, wriggling around and speaking the finest words. For example, it may wind itself around someone like a scarf, make jokes and make itself very popular. Allah will create it to be agreeable and attractive. It is in any case a cute animal, but is dangerous because it is poisonous. We are told in the Torah and the hadith that snakes will lose their venom in the time of Hazrat Mahdi (as). The animal is normally attractive enough to be hypnotic, very decorative and very attractive. But people dislike it because it is dangerous, or because it is cold, or cold to the touch, whereas if it were warm and loveable and made people love it, it would have more adornments. For instance, the animals of Paradise will be covered in pearls and diamonds, they will wear the special adornments of Paradise. Imagine them moving around covered in bright and eye-catching jewels; that will be really beautiful. 

ADNAN OKTAR'S LIVE INTERVIEW ON KRAL KARADENIZ TV (January 30, 2009)ADNAN OKTAR: All animals in Paradise talk and are highly intelligent. They are friendly. For example, cats, dogs and rabbits, all the kinds of animal we love can talk in Paradise. Deers, they can all speak, are all intelligent and are all believers. They all talk and believers love all of them. In other words, there is the highest conceivable level of beauty there.

ADNAN OKTAR'S VATAN TV INTERVIEW (April 2, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: Allah uses symmetry and beautiful colors in everything He creates. This is a blessing, a beauty from Allah. There will be butterflies and birds also in Paradise, insha’Allah, and all will be much much more beautiful. But I would like to cite a few examples here. These things are important in terms of seeing Allah’s artistry of Creation. Yes, we are going for a close-up, aren’t we? Look how Allah bestows such glorious decoration on birds, and that is how birds will be in Paradise.  They will wander around us when we want, and we will stroke their beaks and talk with them, insha’Allah. For instance this sweet one is also like that, it is like a bird of Paradise. It is quite amiable. They will be the adornments of Paradise. But they will be much finer and much more perfect. And they will be immortal. These loveable beings are mortal here, these cute creatures. But in Paradise they are immortal, insha’Allah. Yes, let me give a few examples of these creatures. Look, as I say, these will be in Paradise with all their cuteness and magnificence. Yes, butterflies. The best thing is to maintain the close-up and I can keep showing them. Yes, look how symmetrically Allah has decorated them. Yes, and here again in the same way... You see the glory in the colors. This is Allah’s creation and artistry... But these will be intelligent in Paradise, they will speak very excellently, and when we ask how they are, they will say they are very well. They also ask you the same, and they say alhamdulillah. They will be so sweet. But in this world they just stare blankly at you. They are not allowed to enjoy direct communication with human beings in this world. The Prophet Sulayman (as) knew their language and was able to communicate with them. Yes, the lovely creatures of Paradise.

THE WOMEN OF PARADISE

ADNAN OKTAR’S LIVE INTERVIEW ON ÇAY TV (February 25, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: Yes, the huris will be very lovely. But the women of Paradise will be even more beautiful and powerful in terms of morals and grandeur and influence.  In other words, they will appear much more attractive. My answer to the question of what a devout woman should be like is this; a devout woman is in love with Allah, madly in love; she has totally surrendered herself to Him and has totally liberated herself from worldly interests, greed, discord, envy and jealousy.

ADNAN OKTAR'S LIVE INTERVIEW ON TEMPO TV (January 28,  2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: For example, butterflies have their own regular make-up on their wings, and women do not use make-up either, since they will have their own make-up in their eyes. Their hair is extraordinarily beautiful on their own, and it is related that just a single hair will illuminate a whole space, this being a reference to the vibrancy and beauty of their hair. For instance, no woman in the world likes her own hair, and there is no perfect hair in this world, because subconsciously people know that perfect hair exists in Paradise. In other words, to see the hair of Paradise, to enjoy the smell, touch and quality of one’s lawful spouse’s hair is most exciting, and touching it will be very, very perfect. The whole body of the women of Paradise will be naturally very well cared for, their nails and the whole body.

In this world there are causes; women, for instance, care for themselves. The fact is, however, it is again Allah Who provides the care in question.

In other words, when a woman applies a make-up, it is again Allah Who creates that make-up on that face.

Nobody applies make-up to anyone. It is Allah Who makes every make-up. Women imagine they put their own make-up on or go to a make-up expert, but it is Allah Who does the make-up, that is Who produces their made-up state. Allah also creates perfume, and it is He Who applies it to people. It is Allah Who produces that scent, and also He Who produces unfavorable aromas.

That world is specially created so people should not be devoted to the world. People have their own natural scent in Paradise, they are naturally beautiful and everything about them is natural. Just as how flowers have their own natural scent, how the texture of carnation is naturally beautiful and just as how butterflies carry a natural and striking beauty on their wings, people in Paradise, women, will be naturally beautiful. Men will also be created in the form that women find most pleasing. In other words, [man or woman] everyone will be delighted with his/her spouse and passionately devoted to him/her. The Qur’an says “With eyes reserved for their spouses alone”, and in this verse Allah draws attention to the great importance of the way one looks. 

There is a look of passion, but only believers know it. Looking with passion, being profoundly affected by passion, is a blessing peculiar to believers  guarding from evil.
People who do not believe in Allah can never attain it. Never. They will never attain that strength for all eternity. But believers know true passion in this world; and they know it with all its power in Paradise. 

They know about passion-filled looks, and this is noted in the Qur’an.

“With eyes reserved for their spouses alone.” This is very important, a reference to the importance of chastity. For your spouse alone.

They belong only to their spouses alone. Allah says they are like hidden pearls. Their skin is likened to eggs, in terms of their oval shape and cleanliness, women’s beauty is described in detail in the Qur’an. Men will also be created in the form that women find most pleasing.

There will be a mutual passion. Those passion-filled looks will affect them most of all, so it appears from the references in the Qur’an. Insha’Allah.

THE BEAUTY OF THE PLACES IN PARADISE

ADNAN OKTAR'S KRAL KARADENIZ INTERVIEW  (March 30, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: I was talking about this recently. I spoke about the mansions of Paradise. There are no masons or architects to build these in Paradise. Allah creates the mansions of Paradise in a single moment. The mansions of Paradise are glorious. And the goods in Paradise are all perfectly designed. And Allah does that, too. There are the goblets of Paradise and the pitchers of Paradise. These are not made in factories. Allah creates them. In the same way that Allah creates in this world, showing us things as if they had been made in a factory, so He creates in the Hereafter in the same way. There are no factories in the Hereafter Allah creates them directly. If Almighty Allah tells a thing to be, it is.

ADNAN OKTAR’S LIVE INTERVIEW ON MAVI KARADENIZ TV (February 3, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: Paradise is delightful and beautiful. Accounts say that the mansions of Paradise are made of red rubies, green emeralds and white pearls. A great many crystal-type materials are used in Paradise. The bricks look like emerald, for instance, and are made of gems more precious than rubies. Paradise is most striking and luminous. Red rubies are used in abundance. Things we only very seldom here see are very common in Paradise. The people of Paradise look on these things as you do on the stars in the east and west. They are perfect and flawless. They constantly attract the eye. Bright and shiny things attract the eye and please us, do they not?

ADNAN OKTAR'S LIVE INTERVIEW ON TEMPO TV (March 3, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: For example, normal bricks are not used, bricks made out of emerald, for instance, or diamond are used instead. Because it is as easy for Allah to create whole world made of diamond as it is to create one small diamond. 

PEOPLE’S INFINITE DESIRES WILL BE MET IN PARADISE

ADNAN OKTAR'S LIVE INTERVIEW ON KRAL KARADENIZ TV (January 30, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: People’s infinite desires will be met in Paradise, everything one can possibly think of. Can one imagine how happy someone who has exuberated with the love of Allah there, a person who is consumed with the love of Allah will be while living there with the other lovers of Allah? A person may not have known true delight before tasting the love of Allah. We will not only enjoy the gardens and fruits of Paradise when we are there, but also the people who love Allah. We will talk with them, wander around with them and see the manifestations of the beauties of Allah for all eternity. They will be manifested everywhere, in flowers, insects, birds, animals and everything. 

Allah says we can have whatever we wish. Allah has spoken very clearly. Allah says he will do or give us whatever enters our hearts. And He says there is more, that He will also bestow surprises on us that we are unaware of.

THERE WILL BE ETERNAL YOUTH IN PARADISE

ADNAN OKTAR'S KANAL 35 INTERVIEW  (February 1, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: 33 Years, of course. The people of Paradise are all the same age, with a youthful appearance and mature mind, or, to put in another way, they are of no age at all. 

PRESENTER: So a person will look 33 years old?

ADNAN OKTAR: Yes, in terms that can be understood. In fact, people will be of no age in Paradise. But physically they will look perfect, neither young nor old. 

THERE WILL BE NO NIGHT IN PARADISE

ADNAN OKTAR’S LIVE INTERVIEW ON KACKAR TV (February 19,   2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: There will be light variations from Almighty Allah to give the impression of day and night. It will sometimes become slightly darker, and we will then imagine it is night. But it is generally daylight in Paradise. Insha’Allah.

WILL EVERYONE SPEAK THE SAME LANGUAGE IN PARADISE?

ADNAN OKTAR’S LIVE INETRVIEW ON KACKAR TV  (February 12, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: Of course we will use the same language, everyone will speak the same language. There are various accounts regarding this. It may be we will speak Arabic, or maybe some other languages. Allah knows, of course. This will become apparent in the Hereafter, insha’Allah. But what matters is that believers will be able to communicate very well in Paradise. In fact, a Muslim can speak whatever language he wishes, I mean we will have everything we desire in Paradise, and it will be enough for us just to think of it. 
There will be no problems with memory or comprehension or learning anything, of the kind we experience in this world. A Muslim will learn a thing as soon as he sees it and so will experience no such difficulties. Everything will be created as soon as it enters his mind.

EVERYONE IN PARADISE WILL RECEIVE DELIGHT ACCORDING TO HIS FAITH, MORAL VIRTUE  AND HOW MUCH WE GUARD FROM EVIL

ADNAN OKTAR’S LIVE INTERVIEW ON TEMPO TV  (January 20, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: Paradise is a blessing created for us, but not everyone who enters it will receive the same delight from it. Pleasure in Paradise will be meted out according to a person’s faith, guarding from evil and moral virtue. For example, there is the food of Paradise. Some people will enjoy normal pleasure from consuming it, which others will enjoy it a great deal more. There are the women of Paradise, for example. Some will take an average pleasure from them and others a lot lot more. Allah will develop and strengthen that power in our souls according to our faith and how much we are guarding from evil, insha’Allah.

 HUMAN BEAUTY IN PARADISE

ADNAN OKTAR’S KANAL 35 INTERVIEW (February 1, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: People’s hair is very high quality in Paradise, their eyebrows are very high quality and their eyes are very lovely and expressive. Their skin is very smooth, and they have no bodily needs. They feel no hunger or thirst and no cold in the sense we are familiar with. They have no heart or liver functions in the sense that we understand. In other words, Allah will create people with a whole new system of physical laws.

ADNAN OKTAR'S LIVE INTERVIEW ON KACKAR TV (January 22, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: If one were to see someone in Paradise one would never again like anyone in this world. That is why Allah does not show Paradise to people, as a blessing; Allah states they cannot see it with the eyes of the world. People will be unimaginably attractive and impressive in Paradise. Men and women, and they will have many bodies, hundreds of bodies. A person will have hundreds of bodies but only one soul. With that body they will go to the market in some place, eat in another place, fly in the vehicles of Paradise, and attain all they desire. Everything there is highly original. The vehicles of Paradise are highly original, as are the aircraft. They have features that will amaze and delight people, and they will all work simply by one’s thinking about it. 

ADNAN OKTAR’S KANAL 35 (IZMIR) INTERVIEW (February 21, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: It is Allah Who causes a woman to make herself up, and the women in Paradise will all wear make-up. They will wear natural make-up, and will wear kohl on their eyes, like butterflies or flowers. Their lips will have a perfect appearance, and everything about them will be very attractive, in other words very well-groomed. They will have no need to groom themselves in Paradise, in the Hereafter. That takes up a lot of a woman’s time, as you know. But no such thing will apply there. Because they will grow even more lovely every day.  They will see they have grown even lovelier every time they look. But this world is a place of weakness and deficiency. But when a woman dresses up, it is Allah Who dresses her up. Women will realize that. Insha’Allah.

ADNAN OKTAR'S LIVE INTERVIEW ON TEMPO TV (February 3, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: For example, account says: “The dwellers in Paradise have no hairs on their bodies, have kohl on their eyes and never lose their youth. The dwellers in Paradise are aged between 30 and 33, and will have no beard or body hair.” In other words, people will not have to shave all the time. They will have hair and eyebrows, but not hair that keeps growing all the time and becomes a nuisance. That kind of thing women find really troublesome, since it is created as a deficiency in this world.  Allah’s description of women in the Qur’an is “like an egg.” He says their skins will be smooth like an egg, like a pearl. As you know, many people have skin problems in this world, and almost nobody is entirely happy with his or her skin. Nobody’s skin is perfect. But in Paradise people’s skin is perfect, of an immaculate perfection. 

WILL PEOPLE BE BORED IN PARADISE?

ADNAN OKTAR’S LIVE INTERVIEW ON CAY TV (February 25, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: One of my brothers asked whether people could ever be bored in Paradise. People are never bored in Paradise because it is an extraordinarily delightful place. It is the home of blessings, where every day is a festival. Every day until the end of time is a festival, a festival of intense joy and delight. 

How is it possible for anyone who has attained our Lord’s beauties and mercy, who has earned Allah’s approval and entered His Paradise, and who has everything he wants, to be bored? And everything is created just as you want it at that very moment. Allah constantly changes faces, for instance, so that beauty is always changing. The form of things changes, their smell changes, foods change and whatever you think of becomes a reality at that exact moment. This is a very great blessing. But one of the things that leads believers to properly appreciate the value of Paradise is the fact that they can see Hell. Seeing it and comparing it with Paradise, they will kiss the stones of the Paradise, insha’Allah.

PEOPLE WILL BE ABLE TO ALTER THEIR APPEARANCE INSTANTANEOUSLY IN PARADISE

ADNAN OKTAR’S LIVE INTERVIEW ON TEMPO TV (January 20, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: For example, in Paradise people will go out to market, come back and encounter their spouses and will say how much more beautiful they have become. Then they will go out and come back and say that their spouses have grown even lovelier. There is a constant increase in beauty in Paradise. A person can adopt whatever face he chooses in Paradise. Any face one likes or thinks is created in his own body. If a person has a spouse, that spouse will appear in thousands of different bodies. If they are husbands and wives, their bodies take the form of thousands of bodies. One’s spouse may appear in different clothing or with different hair styles. Spouses will appear to one another in very different physical forms, but still with the one soul. The same soul takes enjoyment, but in so many different bodies. This is one of the features of Paradise. Someone will speak with our Prophet (saas) while someone else is eating, or sitting with his wife, or traveling using the means available in Paradise, or walking through the streets of Paradise or sitting chatting with relatives. In other words, whatever one wants will happen, insha’Allah.

ADNAN OKTAR'S LIVE INTERVIEW ON EKİN TV (January 26, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: And a person can assume the appearance he wants. When he sees an attractive type, he can at once assume that appearance, as well. Our Prophet (saas) says there will be pictures of attractive individuals in the streets and on the roads of Paradise, and that people will look at these. And one can assume those forms instantaneously, he says. Because Allah creates them at once in those forms. He says they will appear as images with that external reality.

CAN BELIEVERS KNOW THEIR DEGREES IN PARADISE?

ADNAN OKTAR'S TEMPO TV INTERVIEW (March 31, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: The dwellers in Paradise all imagine themselves to be equal. Were that not so they would suffer, and there is no suffering in Paradise. Knowing that they were different would inflict suffering on them. But that is not the case. Because they will all dwell in the same heavenly environment. They will not know one another’s delights. For example, someone will lie with his wife, and will enjoy that in accordance with his level of how much he guarded from evil. The enjoyment he draws from passion will be very great. Someone who has less faith or taqwa will draw less enjoyment from the same thing, but will be unaware of that. Neither do people know that in this world. For example, everyone who eats meat imagines they all draw the same enjoyment from it. Or someone smelling a rose imagines everyone else enjoys it exactly as much. But they are all different, although unaware of that fact. In the Hereafter, too, people will enjoy different levels of pleasure, though they will remain unaware of that fact.

ADNAN OKTAR’S KANAL 35 TV (IZMIR) INTERVIEW  (January 25, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: Wise people see the best in everything, and look at everything through the eyes of goodness and wisdom. They are pleasant natured, virtuous, loving and shed light all around them. In other words, they are passionate. The prophets, for instance, have all been passionate people.  They experience love most intensely, in a manner stronger than most people can comprehend. They also go to Paradise, and nobody else can know the pleasure they receive. For example, if one person receives 10 units of pleasure, they receive a hundred million. But people cannot know that, and everyone imagine they receive the same measure of delight.

MUSIC IN PARADISE

ADNAN OKTAR'S LIVE INTERVIEW ON BASKENT TV (April 24, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR : There is the very finest and loveliest music in Paradise, with music being played whenever and wherever one wants. For example, even if you ask a cat to sing a song for you, it will do so, and quite perfectly. If you say you want to listen to music, any old pitcher will start playing right away. Then if you tell it to fill itself up with a cool drink and bring it to you, it will do that.

PRESENTER : One must not misunderstand the concept of music. Music is not something with words, but like the sound of a flute, for instance. 

ADNAN OKTAR : We will hear everything, kinds of music we have never heard before, in Paradise. We will hear intense forms of music, not the violin or flute or clarinet or anything like that, which will really enchant us. We will hear it, hear those notes, for the first time. And we will see colors we have never seen before; that is a feature of Paradise. 

WHAT KIND OF WINE WILL BE OFFERED TO US IN PARADISE?

ADNAN OKTAR'S LIVE INTERVIEW ON EKIN TV (January 26,  2009)

REPORTER: What kind of wine will we be offered in Paradise?

ADNAN OKTAR: A drink that does not make one dizzy and uncomfortable, that truly delights people to drink, and that is perfect in smell, taste, appearance, effect and everything.

ADNAN OKTAR’S LIVE INTERVIEW ON KON TV (February 8, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: Of course there are cigarettes in Paradise, and also wine; there is drink of all kinds. But not of the kind that harms people. It does not lead to dizziness or an upset stomach. There is wine in Paradise, but it is the wine of Paradise. One can drink all one likes. It neither hurts one, nor upsets the stomach. It does not cause vomiting nor cause one to behave disgracefully nor to lose one’s reason. The Qur’an states this perfectly clearly.

THERE IS NO SLEEP IN PARADISE

ADNAN OKTAR’S LIVE INTERVIEW ON TEMPO TV (January 28, 2009)

TEMPO TV: Does sleep exist in Paradise?

ADNAN OKTAR: No. There is no sleep in Paradise. There is no fatigue, no tiredness in Paradise. One will never be tired until the end of time, nor ever be sleepy for all eternity. Sleep is bestowed as a miracle in this world, meaning that the phenomenon of sleep is a miraculous one. Normally we should be in no need of sleep since we are created as images. That is, we have bodies in the external world, but we exist as images. And there is no reason why an image should have to sleep.

THERE WILL BE NO NEGATIVE FEATURES SUCH AS SORROW OR SADNESS IN PARADISE

ADNAN OKTAR’S AKS TV INTERVIEW (April 14, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: There is a wonderful clarity in Paradise, and happiness alone. The individual knows no sorrow, fear, unease or boredom. Since Allah knows what will distress human beings, in the Hereafter He has created no such things in their destiny. In other words, even if people were to look for unhappiness they could not attain it, they would not find it too. People have no such ability. People are entirely freed from such feelings as fatigue, fear, panic, sorrow or doubt. So people will live in such a way as to know happiness alone. Their minds will be very transparent and they will only think positively.  There are none of satan’s suggestions there, and since his power has been lifted, our brothers will be at ease and in well-being there. The disappearance of satan’s power is a most important issue. The power of the lower-self also disappears there. The intervention of the lower-self disappears. Because—I take refuge in Allah from satan—Almighty Allah says that lower-self is created as inimical to Him. Have you seen him who has taken his lower-self as his god, asks Almighty Allah. Lower-self is a scourge on human beings. In Paradise the soul is free, that is, unfettered by lower-self. Since satan’s power has been lifted, people will enjoy a wondrous peace, meaning an unimaginable joy and rapture.  In other words, two pressures have been lifted; there is no hunger, cold, heat, need for sleep or fatigue. There is no pressure from satan or from lower-self. The elimination of these is like the lifting of a 30-ton weight. Just that alone will make people gloriously happy, and we will be maddened by love of Allah in Paradise. That is the true pleasure we enjoy.

ADNAN OKTAR'S LIVE INTERVIEW ON EKIN TV (January 26, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: Good moral values are inevitable in Paradise. Almighty Allah says—I take refuge in Allah from satan—“O self at rest and at peace”, that is, the lower self that has been balanced, become rational and normal. He says, “Return to your Lord, well-pleasing and well-pleased! Enter among My slaves!” We will already enter the Paradise with a soul that is at rest and at peace. Allah tells us that if we harbor hatred to anyone, He will take that from us. I take refuge in Allah from Satan, in the verse Allah says, "We will strip away any rancour in their hearts." In other words, we will not know feelings such as anger and hatred. In addition, the preconditions for them will not exist and there will be no environment in which they can exist. Neither will there be any incidents requiring such reactions, and there will be no innate feelings of strife within us.

ADNAN OKTAR'S LIVE INTERVIEW ON KACKAR TV (January 22, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: We will describe everything we do here, but in Paradise a Muslim will be unable to remember anything that might embarrass or disturb a Muslim. It will be totally wiped from his memory and will be unable to bring it to mind no matter what he does. Other people will also be unable to remember it, no matter what they do. In other words, people will be unable to recall things that might embarrass them or make them uneasy.  They will only have clear memories of pleasant deeds, of acceptable and lawful behavior. They will be able to recall those in perfect clarity. Furthermore, they will be able to watch them, insha’Allah.

THE CLIMATE OF SECURITY IN PARADISE

ADNAN OKTAR'S KANAL 35 INTERVIEW (February 1, 2009 )

ADNAN OKTAR: You will be able to trust everyone in Paradise. Nobody will tell lies in Paradise. Everyone will be trustworthy. There will be no hypocrisy, no disloyalty or game-playing. They will engage in no corruption or gossip, which means that people will therefore be happy. That is, people will not be happy solely because of their possessions or property in Paradise. They will be happy there because they will see the manifestation of Allah there, because they see proper moral values displayed, because they love everything as the manifestation of Allah. 

MARKETS AND CITIES IN PARADISE

ADNAN OKTAR'S LIVE INTERVIEW ON TEMPO TV (February 3, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR : Yes, there will be bright green cities made of precious stones, of emerald, in Paradise, and these will shine like stars. In other words, building materials in Paradise will not be limited to those forty materials in this world, to concrete and that kind of thing. There are materials that can hypnotize people there, but these will again form as an image. There will be their originals in the exterior world but their images will be in our brains. Human beings have a predisposition to like bright, precious stones and in high-quality arrangements. This will be fully available in Paradise, and human beings’ souls will be fully satisfied, insha’Allah.