Has Paradise Already Been Created?

Question

Concerning a person whose view is that Paradise has not been created and will be created on the Day of the Hereafter: how, then, can the event of the Mi‘raj and the entry of Hazrat Adam ﵇ into Paradise be correct? He says that “janna” means “garden”, and that the event of the Mi‘raj and the entry of Hazrat Adam ﵇ took place in a garden. So what does the Sacred Law say about such a person? Kindly write with clarification.

Answer

This view of that person is not correct; it is necessary for him to correct this view of his, because this is the view of most of the Mu‘tazila, which according to the majority of Ahl al-Sunna wa al-Jama‘a is wrong. In “Sharh al-‘Aqa’id al-Nasafiyya”, p.

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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