What to do to get to heaven. How to get to heaven? What is paradise? Holy fathers and priests about paradise. The Holy Spirit is the goal of the Christian life
According to statistics, more than 80% of people believe in the existence of a heavenly afterlife. Ideas about this concept in different religions are the same.
This is eternal bliss, joy, and the absence of earthly problems. Christianity, Judaism and Islam are unanimous in the view that before the fall, people lived in paradise.
Image of Paradise. Second quarter of the 12th century
Each religion has its own interpretation of how to achieve this happy fate. Consider how to get to Paradise, from the point of view of Orthodoxy.
What is Paradise
Paradise is called the Kingdom of God, or the Kingdom of Heaven. The idea of Paradise, as a place with coordinates in the N-dimensional space, into which the righteous man enters after death, has existed since the time of the Old Testament. Mankind has dreamed of him since the time of Adam.
With the advent of the Savior, the concept of Paradise expanded. The preacher of repentance John the Baptist says:
"... the kingdom of heaven is at hand."
Jesus Christ elaborates:
“... and they will not say: behold, it is here, or: behold, there. For behold, the kingdom of God is within you.”
The Apostle Paul writes:
"The kingdom of God is not food and drink, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit."
Man finds the kingdom of God within himself.
On the basis of the words of the Savior, a person finds the Kingdom of God within himself, and he experiences the feeling of this joy already in earthly life. The Gospel tells about this, and holy people revered by the church testify.
Christ says:
“And he said to them, “Truly, I say to you,
there are some standing here who will not taste death before they see the kingdom of God come in power.”
The apostle Paul testifies that:
"... he was caught up into paradise and heard unspeakable words that a man cannot retell."
(Corinth, 12.4)
Saint Seraphim of Sarov said:
“... I was raptured into these cloisters, but I don’t know - with the body or besides the body. God knows, it's unfathomable.
And it is impossible to tell you about the joy and sweetness of heaven that I tasted there ...
Oh, if you knew what joy, what sweetness awaits the soul of the righteous in heaven, then you would decide in a temporary life to endure all sorrows, persecutions and slander with thanksgiving ... "
The Apostle Paul writes:
This joyful state of the soul is experienced by a person because he is with the Lord, the fullness of the knowledge of Whom in earthly life a person cannot comprehend. “Now we see, as it were, through a dull glass, guessingly ...”
(1 Corinthians 13:12)
Who goes to Paradise
All Old Testament people went to hell, which is located in the interior of the earth.
After his resurrection, Christ descended into hell and dwelt
"... in the heart of the earth three days and three nights"
He preached there and led out the righteous from there to Paradise.
After that, the road to Paradise is open to everyone.
After the second coming
"... the earth and all the works on it will burn"
(2 Peter 3:10).
God will create
"...new heaven and new earth"
in which there is no hell. Between the righteous and the sinners
"... the great abyss is approved"
which they cannot cross.
“There is no hell as an objective sphere of being, this is a completely godless idea, more Manichaean than Christian.
Therefore, no ontology of hell is absolutely impossible and inadmissible...
Unthinkable as the sphere of objective being, hell exists in the subjective sphere and means the experience of man and the path of man ... "
(N. A. Berdyaev)
According to Rev. Seraphim of Sarov, -
"Heaven and hell begin on earth" .
A person feels belonging to this or that world until death.
“The blessed state of a person, during his stay on earth, serves as a guarantee of his eternal bliss in heavenly Eden ...”
(pr. Ignaty Brianchaninov, Ascetic experiments)
All human souls will be embraced by the flame of Divine love.
If the soul reciprocates, it rejoices, if it is filled with impurities, it suffers.
“... eye has not seen, ear has not heard, and it has not entered the heart of man, which God has prepared for those who love Him”
(Corinth. 2.9)
The fact that the love of God is poured out on everyone without exception, wrote St. Isaac Sirin in the book "Words of the Ascetic".
“I say that those who are tormented in Gehenna are stricken with the scourge of love!
… It is inappropriate for anyone to think that sinners in Gehenna are deprived of God's love. Love is the offspring of the knowledge of truth, which (in which everyone agrees) is given to everyone in general.
But love, by its power, acts in two ways: it torments sinners, as it happens here for a friend to endure from a friend, and rejoices with itself those who have done their duty.
Venerable Ephraim the Syrian What do you need to do to get to heaven
All people are destined for the Kingdom of Heaven. God
“desires all people to be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth.”
There are no specific instructions on how to get to Paradise. Conditions and recommendations are set out in the New Testament.
The Orthodox Church calls for daily reading of its chapters. Over the years from constant reading, the mind will "bath" in the words of the Gospel, and a person's life will be evaluated every moment from the point of view of the Law of God.
This is the foundation of Christianity.
There is no salvation outside the church
The saints unanimously affirm this. The Lord arranged the earthly church as a place of salvation. He armed it with mysteries, filled it with teaching. The Church is a hospital in which a person can be restored to the state in which he was before the fall.
Orthodoxy is the only faith that preserves the apostolic traditions. The Apostle Paul commanded:
"Therefore, brethren, stand firm and hold the traditions which you have been taught either by word or by our epistle."
The gospel is part of the church heritage. His correct understanding of salvation is set forth in the apostolic traditions kept in the church, which are rejected by other confessions.
But the main thing in the church is Christ. He is the helmsman, doctor and savior, whose word is unchanged:
"I will build my church, and the gates of hell will not prevail against it."
Christ is one, He is not divided, and His church is one. The apostle says indignantly:
"Is Christ divided?"
(Corinth. 1:13)
"one Lord, one faith, one baptism."
Without God's help through the church, a person will drown in the abyss of passions and sins, as one drowns in the abyss of the sea without a ship and a helmsman.
Be like children
The type of people who go to Paradise was indicated by the Savior himself.
“…Truly I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven; Therefore, whoever humbles himself like this child, that one is greater in the Kingdom of Heaven.”
A person should be simple to faith, as a child is simple to the words of his parents. He believes without doubt. There is no guile in his soul, it is open to perception. Distrust is the slyness with which the entrance to Paradise is closed.
The will of the Father is set forth in the Law of God.
“Not everyone who says to me: “Lord! Lord!” will enter the Kingdom of Heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in Heaven.”
Change of mind
For a correct understanding of the Word of God, a change of consciousness is necessary, which in Greek means repentance.
“…repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand”
Calls John the Baptist.
He warns that those who do not bear fruit worthy of repentance cannot escape future wrath.
“...neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor malakia, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor predators - they will not inherit the Kingdom of God”
(1 Corinth 6:9-10)
Saint Peter of Damascus said: “When you see your sins, like the sand of the sea, know that you have laid the foundation for repentance.”
Humility
"Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven." Saint John Chrysostom says:
“What does it mean: poor in spirit? Humble and brokenhearted."
Humility is the most important Christian virtue.
Christ, addressing his followers, says:
"... learn from Me, for I am meek and lowly in heart."
“God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble,” say the Apostles Peter and James in their epistles.
In the Old Testament, David writes:
“Sacrifice to God the spirit is broken: the heart is contrite and humble, God will not despise.”
Through the prophet Isaiah, God indicates who is pleasing to Him:
"on whom will I look: the one who is humble and contrite in spirit, and who trembles at my word."
Without humility, the entrance to Paradise is closed to a person, from which Dennitsa, who has become Satan, is expelled for pride.
Chased for the truth
"Blessed are those persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."
Divine truth is stated in the Bible. Those who profess Christianity and are persecuted for it will inherit life with Christ. The word "truth" is identical with the word "truth", and Christ calls himself the truth:
"I am the way and the truth and the life."
(John 14:6)
Martyrs and confessors who suffered for Christ are crowned in Heaven.
Renunciation of the world
Following Christ presupposes renunciation of earthly attachments. If the goal of life is the Kingdom of Heaven, then other problems fade into the background.
This main sign of repentance is confirmed by parables and examples from the Gospel.
Christ to the young man who fulfilled the Law, but who could not renounce his possessions, says:
“…Truly I say to you that it is difficult for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.”
Why in the kingdom of God there are many who are called but few who are chosen, Jesus explains:
“If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother, and wife and children, and brothers and sisters, and even his own life, he cannot be My disciple.”
Giving parables about an unfinished tower and a king going to war against another king (Luke 14:28-32), Christ emphasizes:
"any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be My disciple."
“Another said: I will follow You, Lord! but first let me say goodbye to my family. But Jesus said to him:
no one who puts his hand on the plow and looks back is reliable for the Kingdom of God.
The Monk John of the Ladder in his famous book points out that without renunciation there is no point in starting the path of salvation on the Cross (Word 1, § 10).
“Those who embark on this feat, in order to lay a good foundation, must renounce everything, neglect everything, laugh at everything, reject everything.”
(1 John 1:16)
“For everything that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not from the Father, but from this world.”
The heart must be pure from earthly attachments, for "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God."
At the same time, there is no need to leave your job, family, and go into the wilderness, as the Apostles write about:
“Everyone stay in the rank in which you are called. ... In what rank one is called, brethren, in that everyone and remain before God.
(1 Corinth. 7:20-24)
“... those who have wives should be as those who do not; and weeping as if not weeping; and those who rejoice, as those who do not rejoice; and those who buy, as not acquiring; and those who use this world as those who do not; for the image of this world is passing away.”
(1 Corinth. 7:29-31)
“Or do we not have the power to eat and drink? Or do we not have the power to have a sister wife as a companion, like the other Apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?
(1 Corinth 9:4-5)
Just as in solitude a person remains with earthly passions in his soul, so he who possesses everything earthly can have no affections of the heart.
The Holy Spirit is the goal of the Christian life
The Monk Seraphim of Sarov said in conversations that the goal of the Christian life is the acquisition of the Holy Spirit. Without this important content, the entrance to the Kingdom will be closed to a person. This is the parable of the 10 virgins.
“Then the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who, taking their lamps, went out to meet the bridegroom.
Of these, five were wise and five were foolish.
The foolish, taking their lamps, took no oil with them.
The wise, along with their lamps, took oil in their vessels.
And as the bridegroom slowed down, everyone dozed off and fell asleep.
But at midnight there was a cry: behold, the bridegroom is coming, go out to meet him.
Then all the virgins got up and adjusted their lamps.
The foolish said to the wise, Give us your oil, for our lamps are going out.
And the wise answered: so that there is no shortage for us and for you, it is better to go to the sellers and buy for yourself.
And when they went to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding feast, and the doors were shut; Then the other virgins also come and say: Lord! God! open to us.
And he answered and said to them, “Truly, I say to you, I do not know you.”
Virgins are the image of a pure soul, oil is the image of the Holy Spirit, the bridegroom is the image of Christ. The apostle in the epistle states:
“If anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His.”
For this reason, the bridegroom says to the virgins who do not have oil: "I do not know you."
Rev. Seraphim called the world a marketplace where one finds the Grace of the Holy Spirit. Goods are virtues that a person is able to do (Matt. 25:27).
Christ also speaks of this in the parable of the talents, which some added, while others buried in the ground.
"... it was necessary for you to give my silver to the merchants, and when I came, I would have received mine with a profit."
This parable is about the gifts that people receive from God: life, strength, health, mind, spiritual abilities, earthly riches, and other blessings. Those who use them as a commodity for the purchase of heavenly goods receive a paradise inheritance.
The Lord says:
“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up treasures for yourselves in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves do not break in and do not steal, for where your treasure is, there your heart will also be.”
Do not judge and forgive
One of the ways to reach Paradise is the ability to not judge and to forgive others. This gives the right to enter Paradise, bypassing other virtues. Such a person, who has fallen into the judgment of God, will hear from the Savior - he did not condemn anyone, and I will not judge him. Christ himself testifies to this:
"Judge not, lest you be judged, for by what judgment you judge, you will be judged."
“... if you forgive people their sins, then your Heavenly Father will also forgive you.”
Make an effort
“From the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven is taken by force, and those who use force take it by force.”
"...by your patience save your souls."
In Church Slavonic, “taken by force” sounds “forced”. Forcing oneself to do good, fighting sinful desires and thoughts, showing patience in the fight against passions and weaknesses - such is the narrow and thorny life path of a Christian.
"Enter through the narrow gate, for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many go through it."
This cramped path is accompanied by a struggle on an invisible battlefield:
“...our battle is not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against authorities, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spirits of wickedness in high places.”
(Ephesians 6:12)
"... the devil fights with God, and the battlefield is the hearts of people."
(F.M. Dostoevsky)
The Lord is near, ask - and it will be given to you
Despite the difficulties of the road to Paradise, Heavenly help will not be slow to come. With the help of God, all sins, passions and temptations are overcome. The Lord, testing a Christian on this path, fills with Grace the praying heart, which trusts in Him with faith and humility.
This is what the Lord says:
"Ask, and it shall be given you; seek and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you."
"... and whatever you ask in prayer in faith, you will receive."
"If you ask anything in my name, I will do it."
(John 14:14)
The Holy Apostles call for this:
“…always in prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, make your desires known to God, and the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.”
The Almighty tests His servant from different angles. If a person passes all the tests, he can confidently classify himself as one who believes in Allah. The Almighty tests us in property, in joy, in troubles, etc.
The Creator created people rich and poor. Thus, he experiences both. The test for the rich is to help the poor. And Allah tests the poor, looks: will they endure poverty? The hadeeth says: "Poverty has approached unbelief."
Why is it said so? Because a person in poverty endures a lot, and when he does not have enough patience, or when the rich no longer help, he commits such acts that, according to Islam, lead him out of faith. But this is a last resort. And so he will get his livelihood ... in a sinful way. Therefore, we must be aware of Zakat.
Muslims know that there are people in need among us and they ask for help. Today, if all Dagestanis who have to pay zakat would pay it, then ... not only in Dagestan, but also in neighboring republics, there would be no poor people! We know what wealth some Dagestanis have. Let them not think that we are asking them for something. No, we remind them of their duties and warn them against what awaits them on the Day of Judgment.
There are 82 verses in the Qur'an where Zakat is immediately mentioned after prayer. The Almighty knows how to help His servants. One of these verses says: “Pray and pay zakat!”. Also, in another verse it says: “Take zakat from their property. Zakat will thereby cleanse them and their property from dirt.” Allah says: “People who set aside gold and silver and do not pay zakat on them, “rejoice” with the news of a painful punishment on the Day of Judgment.”
Ibn Umar said that the Messenger of Allah (PBUH) said: “Islam is based on 5 things: testifying to the faith (Shahada), five times prayer, paying zakat, Hajj and fasting in the month of Ramadan”.
Abu Hurairah says that once the Prophet (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) read a sermon and repeated three times: “By Allah, in Whose power I am! .. and lowering his head ... fell silent.” Then the companions began to cry. The Prophet (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) raised his head - and the companions saw joy on His face. They said that it was happier for them than the camels that someone would give them. Then the Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) said: “There is no such slave who would perform five prayers, fast in the month of Ramadan, pay zakat from his property and move away from major sins - except that all the doors of Paradise would be opened to him and they would say to him: enter Paradise safe and sound!”
It is also narrated from Anas bnu Malik that a man from the Bani Tamim tribe came and said: “O Messenger of Allah, I have wealth. Tell me what to do and how to spend this wealth? The Prophet (PBUH) said: “You pay zakat - and this is your purification, it is also a connection between your relatives. You will know with the help of zakat what duty lies on you in relation to the poor, to neighbors, and to those who ask..
The Prophet (PBUH) said: “There are five things by doing which a person enters Paradise: the one who prayed without delay, who fasted in the month of Ramadan, who made the Hajj pilgrimage, and who paid the zakat with a pleasant feeling in his heart, i.e. being pleased with myself".
Muaz bin Jabal says: “I was with the Prophet (PBUH) on a journey and asked: “O Messenger of Allah (PBUH), tell me about the deeds, by doing which I will enter Paradise and which will remove me from Hell!”. The Prophet (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) replied: “You asked about great things, but it will be easy for him to whom Allah makes it easy.
Worship Allah and do not betray anyone or anything else as partners with Him; perform namaz; pay zakat; fast in the month of Ramadan and perform Hajj if you have the opportunity.” This is what Heaven gives us and moves us away from Hell. Abu Darda also narrates that the Prophet (Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam) said: “Zakat is the bridge that brings a person to Islam.” Abu Hurairah narrates from the Prophet (sallallahu alayhi wasallam): "Guarantee me that you will do 6 things, and I will guarantee you Paradise." They asked about 6 things. The Prophet (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) said: "Namaz, zakat, trust, preservation of chastity, stomach and tongue from sinful."
If a person pays zakat, evil leaves him, said the Prophet (sallallahu alayhi wasallam). Al-Hasan narrates that the Prophet (PBUH) said: “Keep your property with zakat and heal the sick with sadaqah, prevent the troubles that may befall you with prayer”.
If a person does not have enough money to pay zakat, he must at least give alms, otherwise his money will go somewhere. There are many more hadiths about zakat. And in all the hadiths - after the mention of prayer! - Zakat is also mentioned. This shows the importance of paying zakat.
What is Ray? Is it possible to get to heaven? When do people go to heaven? Many people think and talk about this topic. But people don't know exactly what heaven is. Some take some very beautiful, cozy and calm place for paradise, admiring this place, they say about this place: “like in paradise”, returning from such a place, they say: “it’s like being in paradise”. Some do not believe at all that there are such worlds as hell or heaven, insist that hell and heaven exist only in the imagination of man. People's understanding can be different.
How are religions taught? What does science say about these worlds? First, let's think about what is paradise in the understanding of religious people? On this occasion, we can say that different religions have different ideas and traditions about the description of paradise. It is only clear that paradise is a very specific place in Heaven, and not just one place. There are about a hundred such worlds in our galaxy. Each Enlightened One (God) has such a world (Paradise, Heavenly Kingdom) in which all his followers live. There are people on earth who have psychic (supernatural) abilities. These abilities enable such people to communicate with living beings of other spaces. Such people tell different stories about heavenly places in Heaven, convey the will of Heaven to people. Some people can understand this, take it to heart. Such people are called wise men, teachers, elders, people from God.
Telling legends, predictions, legends, myths and parables and passing them from mouth to mouth, people spread the precepts of the sages. As a result of such a transfer, a stable concept of good and evil is formed in different religions and among different peoples. In the form of folklore, holy people tried to tell people which deeds are good and which are evil, for which deeds people go to heaven, and for which deeds go to hell. In the cultures of some peoples, there are classic novels that tell about various heavenly places. In particular, this applies to the countries of the East: India and China. In Christianity, there are also many stories that are collected in collections about the life of the saints.
Be that as it may, in both cultures, both Eastern and Western, the principle of karmic retribution is widespread, meaning that everyone is ultimately responsible for their own actions, depending on the commission of which, after the death of the body, the soul falls or into heaven or into hell. The universe will reward actions that are consistent with the principles: good deeds are rewarded with good, while evil deeds will receive due retribution. Believers of all religions tried to act righteously so that after death a person could go to heaven.
From Japan, a parable came to us about a warrior who wanted to know if there is a heaven and hell. Asking the old sage about the existence of heaven and hell, the warrior got excited when he did not like the sage's answer and showed his desire to use the sword. Then the wise man, pointing to such behavior, said to him: “Here the doors to hell open.” When the warrior understood everything that the teacher wanted to show him, he sheathed his sword and bowed respectfully. “The gates to paradise open here,” the teacher said to the warrior.
The parable of the traveler who set off on a journey to find paradise clearly tells people at what cost one can get to paradise. He went with a dog. Encountering a gate on the way, beyond which music, flowers, splashing fountains, he asked the gatekeeper who stood guard at the gate what kind of place it was. He replied that there, beyond the gates, is paradise, but you can’t go there with a dog. This man thought: “Since it’s impossible with a dog, then I won’t go there.” He went on, met another gate on the way, less attractive, but there was water and food for him and his dog. He entered and asked what kind of place this was. They answered him: “This is paradise, but only those who do not abandon their friends come here, and those who abandon their friends can stay in hell, mistaking hell for paradise.”
These two simple stories have a deeply embedded meaning about good deeds, about the good heart of a person. Doing a good deed, acting kindly with the people around you, with your friends, you can go to heaven. This is what religions teach.
Christianity conveyed to us its understanding of paradise. Christians know that Jesus has his own world in Heaven - Paradise, the Kingdom of Heaven. Jesus clearly told people how to get there. All those who believe in Jesus know that Jesus, being crucified on the cross and enduring incredible suffering, fulfilled his mission on earth to the end. When a crucified thief is with Jesus, ask him, “Why, Lord, were you crucified? You haven't done anything wrong, have you?" To which Jesus replied: “Today you will be with me in the Kingdom of Heaven. Thus, the sins of this robber were forgiven by Jesus, and he was able to go to heaven only because he thought about God, who was executed for nothing. It is also considered a noble act - to think in any situation about the suffering of another, to be able to sympathize in any situation. And such an act is regarded as the road to paradise.
All religions talk about the existence of the Kingdom of Heaven - Paradise, and you can get there only by changing your heart, that is, you need to become a good person, even better than a good person, by self-improvement of your soul, changing your character.
In the past, everyone who wanted to improve in religion had to take the veil as a monk or nun and leave the human world. Living in poverty, poverty, wandering, begging - this was the path of Buddhists, Christians and other religious people who improved in the past, walking along the path to God. And all of them, of course, knew that after death they would appear before God in paradise and God would accept them in his heavenly kingdom. It was the road to the paradise of all saints. The ideas of cultivators from various religions were such that in order to get to heaven, one must renounce everything earthly, not pursue anything, not desire anything, discard all the desires of ordinary people.
Everyone wants to go to heaven, but not everyone can part with vital interests, not everyone can discard all those things that they are so used to in their lives. And God helps only those people who live according to the commandments left to people by God, and always in difficult moments of life will take you in his arms and endure through those torments that you yourself are not able to endure. At such moments, a person really feels that he has been to paradise. This is available in the records of scientific studies of near-death experiences.
But how, from a scientific point of view, to explain the desire of a person to go to heaven. Let's analyze: the human body is a microcosm. The entire human body, and not just this body in our human space, consists of molecules, atoms, protons, quarks, neutrinos. Everything is material: our thoughts, our state of mind - everything that surrounds us is matter, which also consists of atoms, protons, quarks and neutrinos.
Morality is a state of mind, it is also material and consists of particles smaller and lighter than selfishness or heartlessness. Our body will be light if it consists of smaller particles - such a body rises up, rises above the dirty world of people. He will rise to a pure world in Heaven. Isn't such a place Paradise? Morality is what a person needs to go to heaven. This is proved by our modern science.
How to get to heaven? - The sage will always answer your question correctly "Everything is in your hands!"
Natalya Rytova. Epoch Times
Paradise in different religions, in principle, is described in the same way, as a place where eternal bliss reigns. Many people, wanting to ensure a happy life after death, are interested in what needs to be done to get to heaven. If you conduct a survey among the ordinary population, asking them such a question, then you will not be able to get an unambiguous answer. For example, some believe that it is necessary to do good deeds, while others are sure that it is enough to go to the service every Sunday.
How to get to heaven?
The Bible describes only one way to find yourself in heaven after death - you need to believe that Jesus Christ is Lord and Savior. In order to show and prove to the Son of God our gratitude for his sacrifices, it is necessary to keep the commandments given by God. To go to heaven after death, you need to repent, because only by admitting your sins can you expect forgiveness. A person who wants to live righteously must learn to push everything away from himself.
Church advice on how to get to heaven:
It is also worth understanding whether a suicide can go to heaven. It is believed that people who commit suicide do not fall into any
Who is destined to enter the Gardens of Eden? Surah Ar-Rad 13:69-73 answers this question: “To those who believe in the signs of Allah, obey Him and surrender to Him, it will be said reverently on the Day of Resurrection: “Enter Paradise rejoicing, you and your wives, where are your faces will be beaming with happiness. When they enter Paradise, they will be surrounded by golden dishes and bowls of various foodstuffs and
drinks. Everything is prepared for them in paradise that the souls desire and that will delight the eyes. And so that their joy may be complete, they will be told: “In this bliss you will abide forever!” And so that they feel full mercy, they will be told: “This is Paradise, into which you entered as a reward for your good deeds in earthly life. In paradise for you there is an abundance of fruits of different types and varieties that you will enjoy.
The inhabitants of paradise will live in huge tents made of precious stones, for example, yacht and pearls. They will wear robes of silk, satin and brocade and gold jewelry, reclining on "embroidered beds" and "spread carpets." They will be served by "boys forever young", who will go around them "with vessels of silver and crystal goblets."
According to the Koran, people who find themselves in paradise will be able to live a married life, but they will not have children. All local inhabitants will remain forever at the age of approximately 33 years. Men will be able to live not only with their wives, but also with heavenly virgins - houris, "black-eyed, big-eyed, like stored pearls", "whom neither man nor genie touched before them." In paradise it will be allowed to drink wine, which, however, will not intoxicate. Although the inhabitants of paradise will be able to eat and drink, they will not defecate as in ordinary life: the secretions will evaporate from their bodies through a special sweat like musk.
The contemplation of Allah occupies a special place in the descriptions of paradise: “Faces that day are shining, looking at their Lord.” The hadith says: “You will see your Lord as you see the moon, and there will be no difficulty for you in this. And there will be no barrier between Him and you.” Those who can see Allah with their own eyes will reach the pinnacle of heavenly blessings.
Islamic theologians (ulema) believe that in fact the descriptions of paradise in the Qur'an are given at the level of human concepts and the true essence of what awaits a person after death in paradise is incomprehensible to us living.