The Essence of Islam – Volume II — Page 449
Heaven and Hell 449 in heaven when it is unlawful in this life, the answer is the same that God Almighty has Himself given that the wine of heaven has no relationship with the evil-inciting wines of the world. God Almighty has said: وَسَقْهُمْ رَبُّهُمْ شَرَابًا طَهُورًا 222 ان الأَبْرَارَ يَشْرَبُونَ مِنْ كَأْسٍ كَانَ مِزَاجُهَا كَافُوْرًا عَيْنًا يَشْرَبُ بِهَا عِبَادُ اللَّهِ يُفَجِّرُوْنَهَا تَفْجِيرًا 223 This means that: God will give the dwellers of paradise to drink a wine that will purify them altogether. The virtuous shall drink of a cup which will be tempered with camphor, that is to say, by drinking that wine their hearts will grow cold altogether to the love of that which is beside God. That wine is a spring from which the men of God start drinking in this very world. They cause it to flow easily in wide and broad streams. In other words, through their loving labour all their hindrances are removed and the ups and downs of their humanness are levelled. They cut asunder wholly from the world and turn to God, and their understanding of the Divine is perfected. At another place it is said: 224 225 وَكَأْسٍ مِّن مَّعِينٍ لَّا يُصَدِّعُوْنَ عَنْهَا وَ لَا يُنْزِفُونَ . لا يَسْمَعُونَ فِيهَا لَفوًا وَلَا تَأْثِيمًا إِلَّا قِيلًا سَلَمًا سَلمان وُجُوةً يَوْمَئِذٍ نَاضِرَةً إِلى رَبِّهَا نَاظِرَةٌ 0 226 222 Al-Dahr, 76:22 [Publisher] 223 Al-Dahr, 76:6-7 [Publisher] 224 Al-Waqi'ah, 56:19-20 [Publisher] 225 Al-Waqi'ah, 56:26-27 [Publisher]