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Do muslims believe in heaven?

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Yes; Muslims believe in Paradise, a real place of perfect delight without pain, prepared by God for those He is pleased with.

Muslims believe in heaven, called Paradise or Jannah, as a real place in the life to come. The Quran describes it as utterly different from this world in its nature and purpose: every good thing will be there to a degree beyond present imagination, and its people will be free of want, anxiety, sadness and regret. Unlike the pleasures of this life, which are always mixed with pain and end, the delights of Paradise are pure and permanent. God describes it as a gift prepared for those with whom He is pleased, and the Quran records conversations its people will have with angels and with one another. Muslims hold that no one can truly understand Paradise until they enter it, but that God has shown enough of it to make the believer long for it. The article “The Pleasures of Paradise” gathers the Quranic descriptions.

The Pleasures of Paradise The reality of Paradise is something which people will never be able to understand until they actually enter it, but God has shown us glimpses of it in the Quran. He has described it as a place essentially different to the life of this world, both in the very nature and
From The Pleasures of Paradise — IslamHouse.com. Reproduced with attribution.

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