If you ask about its soil and ground, it is made of musk and saffron.
If you ask about its roof, it is the Throne of the Most Merciful.
If you ask about its mountains, they are pearls and jewels.
If you ask about its buildings, they are made of bricks of gold and silver.
If you ask about its trees, there is not a single one whose trunk is not made of gold and silver.
If you ask about its fruits, they are softer than butter and sweeter than honey.
If you ask about its foliage, they are softer than any fabric.
If you ask about its rivers, they are made of milk whose taste never changes, and wine that is tasty to whoever drinks it, and honey that is pure, and water that is refreshing.
If you ask about its food, it is fruits of every kind and meat of every bird that one desires.
If you ask about drink, it is tasnim, ginger and kafur.
If you ask about the cups, they are crystal clear but made of gold and silver.
If you ask about shade, it would take a horseman 100 years to ride out of the shade of a single tree.
If you ask about its vastness, the poorest people have a kingdom and walls and squares and gardens that one could not travel through in 1000 years.
If you ask about its tents and camps, a tent is like a hidden pearl and sixty miles long.
If you ask about its high buildings, they are rooms upon rooms with rivers flowing beneath them. And if you ask how high they reach in the sky, they are as far away as the shining stars that one sees and those that one does not see.
If you ask about their clothes, they are made of gold and silk.
If you ask about their beds, their sheets are made of the finest silk, woven to the highest standard.
If you ask about their faces and their beauty, they are like the face of the moon.
And if you want to know their (the inhabitants’) age, they are thirty-three years, in the image of Adam, the father of man.
And if you ask about what was heard, it is the singing of women, among the Hur al-Ayn, and better are the voices of the angels and prophets, and the most beautiful is the voice of the Lord of the Worlds.
And if you want to know the servants, they are young boys, eternally youthful, their appearance is like pearls.
If you ask about the brides and women, they are young and full-breasted and youth flows through their veins; the sun competes with their beauty, lights spring from their teeth; when you meet their love, say what you will about the meeting of two lights; one sees his face in the curve of her cheeks, it is like a polished mirror, and one sees the radiance behind her muscles and bones; if she were let down on earth, she would fill the heavens and the earth with her beautiful wind and the mouths of creation would praise and glorify her and the east and west would be after her, the eyes would leave everything except her, the sun would darken as the sun turns off the stars. The entire earth would believe in the Ever-Living One, the Provider and Protector.
Her headgear is better than the entire earth and everything in it, she never grows old except in beauty; free from the umbilical cord, birth and period and free from mucus, spit and urine and other substances; her youth never fades, her clothes do not fray, no dress can compare with her beauty, no one will be bored with her. She cares only for her husband, she wants only him, his attention is only hers and he wants only her and they are peaceful and safe together, no human or jinn can touch them.
If you inquire about the Day of Exaltation, the Almighty will be visited and the splendour of His countenance – free from likeness or resemblance to anything – will be viewed by you as if you were looking at the sun at noon and the moon on a cloudless night, then a caller will call: “O people of Paradise! Your Lord – blessed and exalted – wants your visit, so visit Him!” They will reply: “We hear and obey!”
Until they will meet on a plain and no one will ignore the call of the caller – the Lord, the Most High – will command that His ‘Arsh (throne) be brought. Stands of light will appear, as well as pearls, diamonds, gold and silver. The lowest among them will sit on a sheet of misk and will not see what those above him receive.
When they are sitting comfortably and securely and the caller calls: “O people of Paradise! You have an appointment with Allah when He will give you!” They will then say: “And what is this? He has already given us radiant faces, filled our scales, brought us to Paradise and removed us from the Fire.”
Then suddenly a ray of light will illuminate the whole of Paradise, they will stretch out their heads towards it and remain so, the Subduer – Exalted be He and holy be His names – comes from above and says to them: “O people of Paradise! Salam (peace) be upon you.” This greeting will be answered with nothing better than: “O Allah! You are Peace and from You comes peace! Blessed are You, O Owner of Majesty and Honor!”
The Lord – Exalted and Blessed – will laugh and say: “O Ahl ul- Jannah ! Where are My subjects (who served Me) without ever having seen Me!” They will all say in one fell swoop: “We are pleased, be pleased with us!” Then He will say: “O Ahl ul- Jannah ! If I were not pleased with you, I would not have hosted you in My Paradise! Ask me!”
They will all reply: “Show us Your face, we want to see You!” Then the Lord – Mighty and Majestic be He – will lift His covering and surround them with His light, which, if Allah did not prevent it, would burn them all. There will be no person in that community without the Lord – the Most High – speaking to him privately and He will say: “Do you remember when you did such and such?” And He will remind him of one of his evil deeds in the dunya . He will reply: “O Lord! Will you not forgive me?” He will say: “Of course! You would never be here but for My grace.”
How beautiful will this speech be to the ears and how cool will the righteous eyes be at the sight of His Honorable Face in the Hereafter…”On that day there will be radiant faces looking towards their Lord.” ( Surah Al-Qiyaamah:22-23)
From ‘Haadi al-Arwaah ilaa Bilaad il-Afraah’, p. 193