The Garden
place · 9 works · 9 mentions · 11 anchored passages
the Garden · الجنة · the Gardens · الجنان · My garden · Paradise · a garden · a meadow · al-Jannah · al-jannah
in the texts
Risālah fī ʻilm al-akhlāq
Paradise, the counter-place to the Fire in the homily's pairs of laughter and weeping.
and whoever sits weeping out of fear of Me, I shall bring him into the Garden laughing.
Against Ctesiphon
A place or estate in Bosporus given to Gylon by local tyrants.
He came to Bosporus and there received as a present from the tyrants of the land a place called the Gardens.
Kitāb al-Safīnah al-Nūḥīyah fī al-sakīnah al-rūḥīyah
The gardens of paradise, whose eight open gates furnish the simile for the eight divisions of the treatise.
So I have set out what is sought in eight gates, as though they were the gates of the Gardens flung open before the possessors of understanding, into which the minds of eminent men may enter;
Adab al-wazīr
Paradise, named in the hadith on longing for the Garden and dreading the Fire.
“Whoever longs for the Garden hastens to good works, and whoever dreads the Fire turns away from appetites.
Kitāb al-Zawrāʼ wa-al-taʻlīqāt ʻalayhi
The otherworldly abode whose planting is glorification, and which is the appearing form of the deeds and character-traits acquired here.
So likewise the deeds and the character-traits acquired in this world are the matter of the Garden and the Fire, and they themselves appear in that abode in the forms of the two, and in the forms of the pleasures and the sufferings that appear within them.
(His words, ‘and His saying, exalted be He, «truly those who devour the wealth of orphans wrongfully devour only fire into their bellies»’, and the saying of the Opener and the Seal, upon him and upon his household be the most excellent blessing and greeting, «those who drink from vessels of gold and silver — it is only the fire of Hell that gurgles into their bellies», and his saying, upon him be …
for strong souls are not diverted by one concern from another, nor does one abode divert them from another, even if this state is not continuous for them but varies according to the peculiarities of the times and the states that follow upon them — as has come down in the ḥadīth that comprises his vision, God bless him and grant him peace, of the Garden and the Fire while he was at prayer facing the wall.
Kitāb madhāhib al-Aʻrāb wa-falāsifat al-Islām fī al-jinn
Paradise, through which the green birds carrying the spirits of the martyrs are said to range.
Its parallel is the passage of the spirits of the martyrs into the breasts of green birds that range through the Garden.
al-Saʻādah fī falsafat al-akhlāq
Paradise, named in the scriptural address to the soul at peace.
and enter among My servants and enter My garden ).
Risālat al-Wāridāt
Paradise, affirmed as already created and existent, the destination of those who cross the Path, where the believers abide for ever and behold their Lord with their eyes while all corporeality is denied of God.
and they shall see their Lord in the Garden with their eyes, as has come down in the ḥadīth and as the noble verse has indicated, while holding [Him] free of everything that would suggest corporeality with respect to God Most High — contrary to the Muʻtazilah, who deny the admissibility of that.
And the Garden and the Fire are created now and existent — contrary to the Muʻtazilah;
Kitāb mīzān al-ḥaqq fī al-manṭiq
The garden and the meadow, natural settings used as the worked examples of description governed by a chosen aspect.
For if you wished to describe a garden, say, then either you intend to set out the beauties of nature and the loveliness of its figuring and the soundness of its making, or you intend to anatomise the impressions that arise in you from what you behold and to bring about their like in the hearer's spirit — or something else.
as the description of a town, or of a battle, or of a scene among the scenes of nature, such as a meadow, or a sunrise, or a sunset, or a tempest, or the like;