Paradise is above, it is brought near to people so that they can see both.
Commentary covering verses 13–14
Imagine a hypothetical scenario where you had an exam in your college and now the teacher is handing out grades. Before he hands them out, he presents before you two things, a beautiful lush garden and a blazing hot cauldron full of lava, and says that those who pass will enter the garden and those who fail will be thrown into the lava. You would lose your head. If the professor had told you earlier, before the exam that this is what will happen, you would have studied your head off. Same is the case here. Whatever you are doing, good or bad, will be repaid back to you, but the day this happens, Allah will present Hell and Paradise in front of you. The sun, the stars, the planets, the mountains will get destroyed and the sea will turn into fire, and the oppressed will be given voice like that girl buried alive. Unlike the professor, Allah is telling us beforehand the end result of the exam to tell us to prepare well in advance.
When Paradise is brought near
Paradise is above, it is brought near to people so that they can see both.
Commentary covering verses 13–14
Imagine a hypothetical scenario where you had an exam in your college and now the teacher is handing out grades. Before he hands them out, he presents before you two things, a beautiful lush garden and a blazing hot cauldron full of lava, and says that those who pass will enter the garden and those who fail will be thrown into the lava. You would lose your head. If the professor had told you earlier, before the exam that this is what will happen, you would have studied your head off. Same is the case here. Whatever you are doing, good or bad, will be repaid back to you, but the day this happens, Allah will present Hell and Paradise in front of you. The sun, the stars, the planets, the mountains will get destroyed and the sea will turn into fire, and the oppressed will be given voice like that girl buried alive. Unlike the professor, Allah is telling us beforehand the end result of the exam to tell us to prepare well in advance.