Heaven or paradise is jannah...or the hidden gardens that Is outside of the realm of creation...
Heavens (samawat) is the 7 concentric dimensions that comprise existence....the first one (and Allah knows best ) is this known universe and everything that it includes...the size of the first dimension to the second is the size of a ring to a desert and the comparison is like that for each proceeding level...when the commands come down, they come down to angels that are in various places in that concentric circle and they come down and bring it forth and bring it fortj...
The human beings and the jinns for all their creativity and exploration cannot pass the first heavenbecause it's gates are imperceptible to them....in a sense, you could go right past its gates and not even realize you went past it...we have not even come close to doing that
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The only time we can cross the boundaries of the heavens is in our dreams and this is a favor from the most high. The majority of people however due to heedless Ness (not praying not believing not sleeping with whudu) remain in the first heaven when they sleep....the near ones are brought closer when they sleep because Allah takes the souls at the time of sleep...depending on how heedful a person is and the mercy of Allah the dream is when a person can see mysteries of the unseen such as the coming down of commands the presence of the devils and the angels
Finally , remember that Jannah is wider than all of the 7 heavens put together and that is an unfathomable thought...it is essentially a limitless place of bounty..jannah is alive in the sense that it produces and it produces that which pleases more aND more by the second
"Faces that day will be glowing. Upon their lord gazing"
"Race to forgiveness and a a garden that is as wide as the heavens and earth"
(Sahih International)
O company of jinn and mankind, if you are able to pass beyond the regions of the heavens and the earth, then pass. You will not pass except by authority [from Allah ].
-Sura Ar-Rahman, Ayah 33
Heavens (samawat) is the 7 concentric dimensions that comprise existence....the first one (and Allah knows best ) is this known universe and everything that it includes...the size of the first dimension to the second is the size of a ring to a desert and the comparison is like that for each proceeding level...when the commands come down, they come down to angels that are in various places in that concentric circle and they come down and bring it forth and bring it fortj...
The human beings and the jinns for all their creativity and exploration cannot pass the first heavenbecause it's gates are imperceptible to them....in a sense, you could go right past its gates and not even realize you went past it...we have not even come close to doing that
.
The only time we can cross the boundaries of the heavens is in our dreams and this is a favor from the most high. The majority of people however due to heedless Ness (not praying not believing not sleeping with whudu) remain in the first heaven when they sleep....the near ones are brought closer when they sleep because Allah takes the souls at the time of sleep...depending on how heedful a person is and the mercy of Allah the dream is when a person can see mysteries of the unseen such as the coming down of commands the presence of the devils and the angels
Finally , remember that Jannah is wider than all of the 7 heavens put together and that is an unfathomable thought...it is essentially a limitless place of bounty..jannah is alive in the sense that it produces and it produces that which pleases more aND more by the second
"Faces that day will be glowing. Upon their lord gazing"
"Race to forgiveness and a a garden that is as wide as the heavens and earth"
(Sahih International)
O company of jinn and mankind, if you are able to pass beyond the regions of the heavens and the earth, then pass. You will not pass except by authority [from Allah ].
-Sura Ar-Rahman, Ayah 33
