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Chapter
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Islam provides many benefits for the individual
and the society. This chapter mentions some of the benefits gained through
Islam for the individual.
(1)
The Door to Eternal Paradise
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God has said in the Quran:
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give good news (O Muhammad) to those who believe and do good deeds, that they
will have gardens (Paradise) in which rivers flow.... 
(Quran, 2:25)
God has also said:
Race
one with another for forgiveness from your Lord and for Paradise, whose width is
as the width of the heavens and the earth, which has been prepared for those who
believe in God and His messengers....
(Quran, 57:21)
The Prophet Muhammad 
told us that the lowest in rank among the dwellers of Paradise will have ten
times the like of this world,1
and he or she will have whatever he or she desires and ten times like it.2
Also, the Prophet Muhammad
said: {A space in Paradise equivalent to the size of a foot would be
better than the world and what is in it.}3
He also said: {In Paradise there are things which no eye has seen, no ear
has heard, and no human mind has thought of.}4
He also said: {The most miserable man in the world of those meant for
Paradise will be dipped once in Paradise. Then he will be asked, “Son of
Adam, did you ever face any misery? Did you ever experience any hardship?”
So he will say, “No, by God, O Lord! I never faced any misery, and I
never experienced any hardship.”}5
If you enter Paradise, you will live a very happy
life without sickness, pain, sadness, or death; God will be pleased with you;
and you will live there forever. God has said in the Quran:
But
those who believe and do good deeds, We will admit them to gardens (Paradise) in
which rivers flow, lasting in them forever....
(Quran, 4:57)
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Footnotes:
(1) Narrated in Saheeh
Muslim, #186, and Saheeh Al-Bukhari, #6571. 
(2) Narrated in Saheeh
Muslim, #188, and Mosnad Ahmad, #10832.
(3) Narrated in Saheeh
Al-Bukhari, #6568, and Mosnad Ahmad, #13368.
(4) Narrated in Saheeh
Muslim, #2825, and Mosnad Ahmad, #8609.
(5) Narrated in Saheeh
Muslim, #2807, and Mosnad Ahmad, #12699.
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