Question: What is the use of such a vast and empty Paradise?

Answer:If it was possible for you to travel with speed of imagination round all the regions of the earth and most of the stars, you would be able to say, "The whole universe is mine". And the fact that the angels, other human beings and the animals share the world with you would not quash your claim. In the same way, if Paradise, also, was to be thus full, you would be able to say, "Paradise is mine". The meaning of the Hadith, ’A five hundred year Paradise will be given to some of those in Paradise, has been explained in the Twenty-Eighth Word and the Twentieth Flash, the Treatise on Sincerity.

NINTH INDICATION

The result of faith and love of Allah. It is proved by the consensus of the people of unveiling and verification, by certain Hadith*, and by the Qur’an that a thousand years of happy life in this world is not worth one hour of life in Paradise.

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* Included in the Hadith is the following: ’That vision far surpasses all the other delights of Paradise, so much so that it causes them to be forgotten. And after the vision the loveliness and beauty of those who experience it will have increased to such a degree that when they return, it will be only with difficulty and scrutiny that their families in their mansions will recognize them.