Where Are Paradise, Hell and the Pool of Kawthar?

Question

Will Paradise, Hell and the Pool of Kawthar be in heaven or on earth? For Paradise and Hell exist even now, and along with that there are even now human beings in Paradise and Hell, as is stated in “Mazahir-e Haqq” and in the tafsir “Mawdih al-Qur’an”. So where, then, are Paradise and Hell?

Answer

Concerning Paradise it is stated: [ar]عَرْضُهَا كَعَرْضِ ٱلسَّمَآءِ وَٱلْأَرْضِ[/ar] “whose width is like the width of the heaven and the earth” (Surah al-Hadid, 57:21), and in another place: [ar]عَرْضُهَا ٱلسَّمَـٰوَٰتُ وَٱلْأَرْضُ[/ar] “whose width is the heavens and the earth” (Surah Al ‘Imran, 3:133).

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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