know the last of the people of the Fire to enter Paradise: a man who will come out of the Fire crawling. Allah will say to him, ‘Go and enter Paradise.’ He will approach it, but it will seem to him to be full. He will return and say, ‘My Lord, I found it full.’ Allah, mighty and majestic, will say, ‘Go and enter Paradise, for you will have the equivalent of the world and ten times as much’—or, ‘You will have the equivalent of ten times the world.’ He will say, ‘Are You mocking me—or laughing at me—when You are the King?’”

He said, “I saw the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, laugh until his molar teeth became visible.” He used to say, “That is the lowest-ranking inhabitant of Paradise.”

What he has mentioned may be addressed from several angles. The first is that anyone who considers the context of these hadiths, the meanings on which they agree, their narrative sequence, and their accounts of how Allah commands everyone who worshipped other than Him to follow what they worshipped, presenting its likeness to them; and how, once those who worship Him alone have been distinguished from the others, He tests whether they will worship anyone other than the God they saw at first—then, when