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XIV.—HEAVEN.
The Muhammadan Paradise is called Jannat (garden) in Arabic, and Bahisht in Persian; the word Firdaus, from which we get our English word Paradise, being restricted to one region in the celestial abodes of bliss.
There are eight different terms employed in the Qurán for heaven, and although they would appear to be but different names for the same region, Muhammadan divines understand them to mean different stages of glory.
They are as follows[1]:—
1. Jannat-ul-Khuld (Sura xxv. 16), "The garden of eternity."
2. Dár-us-Salám (Sura vi. 127), "The dwelling of peace."
- ↑ These various stages of Paradise are variously given by European authors. Those in the text are from the Arabic dictionary, the Ghyás-ul-Loghat, and have been compared with the verses given from the Qurán.
