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− Someone asked the Holy Prophet 'If paradise occupies the whole sa extent of the Heavens and the earth, then where will Hell be?' He replied: 'At the same place, but you do not have the faculty to understand their coexistence. ' That is to say in ordinary human terms, they may seem to occupy the same time-space, but in reality because they belong to different dimensions, so they will coexist without interfering and inter-relating with each other. . . . [Hadrat Khalifatul Masih II writes in the commentary of the above ra ± ± − − ± verse of the Holy Qur’an (3:134): − "Ard means, (1) price or value of a thing in form other than money; ± (2) breadth or width; vastness (‘Aqrab). . . . . The verse signifies that Paradise will comprise both Heavens and earth, i. e. , the believers will be in Paradise both in this life and in the life to come. A well-known saying of the Holy Prophet throws interesting light on the nature of Paradise and sa Hell, When asked "If Paradise encompasses both the Heavens and the earth, where is the Hell," the Prophet replied: sa "Where is the night when the day comes" (Kathir) − The Holy Prophet is further reported to have said that the smallest sa reward of Paradise will be as great as the space between Heaven and earth. This also shows that Paradise is a spiritual state and not a particular physical place. ] (The Holy Qur’an with Translation and Short Commentary, 1994, p 162) −. . . A healthy soul which has acquired a taste of good things, when brought into close proximity of the objectives of its choice, will draw even greater pleasure than before. All that a healthy spiritual man was craving was nearness to God and His attributes and to imitate Divine virtues. In Heaven, such a healthy soul would begin to see and conceive and feel nearness of the attributes of God like never before. They, according to the Promised Messiah and Mahdi , would not remain merely spiritual values, as − 473