Is it true that if a husband and wife are righteous and they pass away and are among the people of Paradise, they will remain spouses even in Paradise?

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The questioner : Is it true that if a husband and wife are righteous and they pass away and are among the people of Paradise, they will remain spouses even in Paradise?

The Shaykh : Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and I send prayers and peace upon our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and all his Companions. Yes, this is true. If a man and his wife die and they are among the people of Paradise, she remains his wife. Allah the Exalted said:

Our Lord, and admit them to gardens of perpetual residence which You have promised them and whoever was righteous among their fathers, their spouses and their offspring. Indeed, it is You who is the Exalted in Might, the Wise.

رَبَّنَا وَأَدْخِلْهُمْ جَنَّاتِ عَدْنٍ الَّتِي وَعَدْتَهُم وَمَنْ صَلَحَ مِنْ ءابَائِهِمْ وَأَزْوَاجِهِمْ وَذُرِّيَّاتِهِمْ إِنَّكَ أَنْتَ الْعَزِيزُ الْحَكِيمُ

[Ghafir 40:8]

And He the Exalted said:

And those who believed and whose descendants followed them in faith - We will join with them their descendants, and We will not deprive them of anything of their deeds. Every person, for what he earned, is retained.

وَالَّذِينَ ءامَنُوا وَاتَّبَعَتْهُمْ ذُرِّيَّتُهُمْ بِإِيمَانٍ أَلْحَقْنَا بِهِمْ ذُرِّيَّتَهُمْ وَمَا أَلَتْنَاهُمْ مِنْ عَمَلِهِمْ مِنْ شَيْءٍ كُلُّ امْرِئٍ بِمَا كَسَبَ رَهِينٌ

[At-Tur 52:21]

The offspring include the offspring of both the husband and the wife. If Allah joins their offspring with the believers, that means the husband and wife are equal, and Allah joins their offspring with them. This is part of the perfection of the bliss in Paradise, for in it is what no eye has seen, no ear has heard, and what has not occurred to the heart of any human being. In it are what souls desire and what eyes delight in. This is part of the perfection of the bliss, as I said. Yes.

Source alathar.net

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