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ʾinna llāha yudkhilu lladhīna ʾāmanū wa-ʿamilū ṣ-ṣāliḥāti jannātin tajrī min taḥtihā l-ʾanhāru wa-lladhīna kafarū yatamattaʿūna wa-yaʾkulūna ka-mā taʾkulu l-ʾanʿāmu wa-n-nāru mathwan lahum
Indeed Allah will admit those who have faith and do righteous deeds into gardens with streams running in them. As for the faithless, they enjoy and eat like the cattle do, and the Fire will be their [final] abode.
— Ali Quli Qarai
Surah Muhammad - Verse 12
12. Certainly Allah will admit those who believe and do righteous good deeds to Gardens [of Paradise] under which [i.e., trees] rivers flow while those who disbelieve enjoy themselves [in worldly life] and eat as cattle eat and [finally] the Fire will be their abode.
Admitting believers to Paradise is a token of Divine Guardianship. Believers doing righteous good deeds are under Divine Protection and He makes them enter Paradise. Deriving pleasures in life is permitted within the limits of Divine Laws. What lie beyond such limits are beastly pleasures. In this blessed Verse, God Almighty promises believers and those who have done righteous good deeds that Gardens of Paradise will fall into their share beneath whose trees the rivers of Divine Mercy are incessantly flowing. The people of Paradise shall abide in them forever. The bounties of Paradise will be granted through his Grace and Beneficence. His Mercy will be permanent since He is of Permanent Bounties and He is of Abundant Beneficence.
He warns disbelievers that believers will abide in the bountiful Paradise whereas those who disbelieve in Divine Unity and the Last Day but are solely preoccupied with pleasures of the flesh and eat as cattle eat and the abode of such people will be Hellfire. It is said elsewhere in the Holy Qur’an that the recompense of deeds should be consistent with the deeds committed (jaza’an wifaqan). Believers help the Religion of God and His Messenger (S) as a consequence of which God helps and befriends them and they will enjoy His Grace and Mercy in this world and the world to come; whereas disbelievers turned away from Truth and followed their mundane and false desires.
They were preoccupied themselves with the mundane pleasures and did not take one single step toward Truth and spirituality hence their abode is the Fire.
“Allah is not unjust to His servants” 14 .
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