Assalamu Alaykum brothers and sisters.
There are some Muslims who say that the pleasures of Jannah as described in the Quran are allegorical.
These people believe that these “allegories” tie in with the statement that Jannah is beyond imagination. So the verses about flowing streams and stuff are just allegorical, not what it will actually be.
But in the Hadiths, the Prophet Muhammad SAW described Jannah in ways that could not possibly be said to be allegorical.
Is this view by these people true? What is the view of the majority of scholars and those of the classic scholars?
Jazzakallah Khairan
There are some Muslims who say that the pleasures of Jannah as described in the Quran are allegorical.
These people believe that these “allegories” tie in with the statement that Jannah is beyond imagination. So the verses about flowing streams and stuff are just allegorical, not what it will actually be.
But in the Hadiths, the Prophet Muhammad SAW described Jannah in ways that could not possibly be said to be allegorical.
Is this view by these people true? What is the view of the majority of scholars and those of the classic scholars?
Jazzakallah Khairan