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2560. Abū Hurairah narrated that the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said: "When Allāh created Paradise and the Fire, He sent Jibril to Paradise, saying: 'Look at it and at what I have prepared in it for its inhabitants.'" He (ﷺ) said: "So he came to it and looked at it, and at what Allāh had prepared in it. He (Jibril) said: 'Indeed, by Your Might, none shall hear of it except that he shall enter it.' Then He gave the order for it to be surrounded with hardships. He said: 'Return to it and look at it, and at what I have prepared in it for its inhabitants.'" He (ﷺ) said: "So he returned to it and found it
surrounded with hardships. He returned to Him and said: 'Indeed, by Your Might, I fear that none shall enter it.' He then said: 'Go to the Fire and look at it and at what I have prepared in it for its inhabitants.' So he found it, one part of it riding the other. So he returned to Him and said: 'Indeed, by Your Might, none shall hear of it and then enter it.' So He gave the order for it to be surrounded with desires, then He said: 'Return to it,' so he (Jibrīl) returned to it, then he said: 'Indeed, by Your Might, I fear that none shall be saved from it except that he shall enter it.'" (Hasan)
[Abū 'Eisā said:] This Hadīth is Hasan Ṣāḥih.
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The Hadīth gives us an idea of the fact that the kind of moral courage, self-control and willingness to conduct oneself under the divinely ordained limitations so very essential for admission to Paradise requires undergoing difficulties. On the other hand, a lifestyle of merry-making after the desires of one's own heart, where a person feels free to do whatever he likes but which ultimately leads to Hellfire, is a path that all men, except the rarest few, would willingly wish to adopt.
