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Gardens of Eden (jannat 'adn)

جنات عدن

The Gardens of Eden (jannat 'adn) in the Qur'anic text are among paradise's names; Ibn Kathir reports that God created the Garden of Eden with His own hand 1, and the creed affirms paradise is created and never perishes 2.

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The Gardens of Eden (jannat 'adn) in the Qur'anic text are among paradise's names; Ibn Kathir reports that God created the Garden of Eden with His own hand and let down its fruits 1.

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The Tahawiyya creed affirms paradise and the Fire are created, never perishing 2; Ibn Kathir details the reports on the Garden of Eden 1.

People and things also explored

Islamic eschatology· Loss and gain in time (al-khusr)· Companions of the Fire and of Paradise· The most beautiful names of God (asma' Allah al-husna)· Selling self and wealth to God (bay al-nafs wal-mal ila Allah)· The Dajjal· The transience of the world (fana al-dunya)· Ghurbat al-Islam (the strangeness of Islam)

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  1. Tafsir Ibn Kathir
  2. al-Aqida al-Tahawiyya, Dar Ibn Hazm 1995 , §106
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islam.museum contributors. “Gardens of Eden (jannat 'adn)”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/concept/jannat-adn/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.

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Islamic eschatology is the part of the creed concerned with death, the signs of the Hour, resurrection, reckoning and recompense; the Tahawiyya and its Sharh devote a chapter to belief in the signs of the Hour, noting that scholars devoted whole works to its hadiths.