from this world and his arrival before Allah, just as the angel gives his soul glad tidings when taking it, saying:

“Receive glad tidings of rest, sweet fragrance, and a Lord who is not angry.”

These are the first glad tidings the believer receives in the Hereafter.

The third name: the Abode of Eternity. It is so called because its inhabitants will never depart from it, as Allah Most High says:

11:108 “A gift without end.”

And He says:

38:54 “This is Our provision, which will never be exhausted.”

And:

13:35 “Its fruit is everlasting, and so is its shade.”

And:

15:48 “Nor will they ever be expelled from it.”

The fourth name: the Abode of Permanent Residence. Allah Most High relates the words of its inhabitants:

35:34 “They will say, ‘Praise be to Allah, who has removed all sorrow from us. Our Lord is indeed All-Forgiving, Most Appreciative, who, out of His bounty, has settled us in the Abode of Permanent Residence, where no weariness touches us.’”

Muqātil said: “He has settled us in the Abode of Eternity. They will remain there forever, neither dying nor ever moving away from it.”

Al-Farrā’ and al-Zajjāj said: “Maqāmah means the same as iqāmah (residence). In saying ‘I resided in the place,’ one may use any of the verbal nouns iqāmah, maqāmah, or maqām.”

The fifth name: the Garden of Refuge. Allah Most High says:

53:15 “Near it is the Garden of Refuge.”

The sixth name: the Gardens of Perpetual Residence. Some have said that this is the name of one particular garden among the gardens of Paradise. The correct view, however, is that it names all the gardens collectively: all are Gardens of Perpetual Residence. Allah Most High says:

19:61 “Gardens of perpetual residence which the Most Merciful has promised His servants in the unseen.”

And Allah Most High says:

35:33 “Gardens of perpetual residence which they will enter, where they will be adorned with bracelets of gold and pearls, and their clothing there will be silk.”

And Allah Most High says:

9:72 “And pleasant dwellings in Gardens of Perpetual Residence.”

The word’s derivation indicates that all of them are Gardens of Perpetual Residence, for ‘adn conveys residence and permanence.

One says ‘adana bi-l-makān, meaning “he remained in the place”; ‘adantu al-balad, “I settled in the town”; and ‘adanat al-ibil bi-makānin kadhā, “the camels stayed in such-and-such a place without leaving it.” Al-Jawharī said: “Hence the expression ‘Gardens of ‘Adn,’ meaning