LessonsResolving Apparent Tensions: Reconciling Texts in CreedQuiz

وَالْجَنَّةُ وَالنَّارُ مَخْلُوقَتَانِ لَا تَفْنَيَانِ أَبَدًا وَلَا تَبِيدَانِ
Paradise and Hell have both been created. They will never perish or cease to exist.

لَا يَفْنَى وَلَا يَبِيدُ.
He neither perishes nor comes to an end.

The apparent difficulty: If Allah alone is without beginning, how can Paradise and Hell endure forever?

Resolution: God’s endurance is intrinsic and uncreated; Paradise and Hell are created and granted lasting existence. Having no end is different from having no beginning.

Inference to avoid: Their lasting existence does not make them eternal without beginning or uncreated.

Application: Enduring created things remain dependent on divine will.

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Eternity of the Creator and permanence of the abodes — Resolving a question

Resolving Apparent Tensions: Reconciling Texts in Creed

وَالْجَنَّةُ وَالنَّارُ مَخْلُوقَتَانِ لَا تَفْنَيَانِ أَبَدًا وَلَا تَبِيدَانِ
Paradise and Hell have both been created. They will never perish or cease to exist.

لَا يَفْنَى وَلَا يَبِيدُ.
He neither perishes nor comes to an end.

The apparent difficulty: If Allah alone is without beginning, how can Paradise and Hell endure forever?

Resolution: God’s endurance is intrinsic and uncreated; Paradise and Hell are created and granted lasting existence. Having no end is different from having no beginning.

Inference to avoid: Their lasting existence does not make them eternal without beginning or uncreated.

Application: Enduring created things remain dependent on divine will.