How can the Nile and the Euphrates be among the rivers of Paradise?
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Question:
How can the Nile and the Euphrates be among the rivers of Paradise?
Answer:
The scholars have explained this, stating that they are corresponding names: two hidden rivers and two visible rivers. The visible ones are the Nile and the Euphrates, and the hidden ones are the Sijon and the Jaiyun.
A group of them said that they are corresponding names, matching those in this world.
Others said: There is no objection to the idea that what is in this world originates from these rivers, and that Allah sent down something from them, making it the cause of these rivers on earth: the Sijon, the Jaiyun, the Nile, and the Euphrates.
Both of these are possible.
How can the Nile and the Euphrates be among the rivers of Paradise?
Answer:
The scholars have explained this, stating that they are corresponding names: two hidden rivers and two visible rivers. The visible ones are the Nile and the Euphrates, and the hidden ones are the Sijon and the Jaiyun.
A group of them said that they are corresponding names, matching those in this world.
Others said: There is no objection to the idea that what is in this world originates from these rivers, and that Allah sent down something from them, making it the cause of these rivers on earth: the Sijon, the Jaiyun, the Nile, and the Euphrates.
Both of these are possible.
Source
binbaz.org.sa
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