Paradise is not for men only

  Islam has given the same rights and rewards to men and women.  Women have been given the right to worship Allah Most High and gain His favor and have also been instructed to do so.

 

All the spiritual stations that a man can gain by virtue of his worship and self mortification, a woman can also reach high spiritual stations through her own efforts and can gain a high station in paradise as well.

 

Paradise is also for women as much it is for men.  Here, there is no favoring of one over the other based on gender.  As human nature is inherently anxious about the afterlife, women also ask the scholars about the bounties that are granted to them in paradise.

 

For human beings neither is this anxiety wrong nor are these questions.  The Companions also asked the Holy Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) similar questions and in reply, the Holy Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) described the mansions of paradise, its streams, its markets, fruits and many other details.

 

The Hadith mention details of the shade of a particular tree of paradise.  It is mentioned in the Hadith:

 

Translation: There will be such a tree in paradise that even if a rider rides for 100 years, he cannot cover the whole shade.  (Sahih Bukhari, Hadith No. 6552)

 

Paradise is not for specific men or women.  Only those who are pious and virtuous will gain this bounty.  Who are those who deserve paradise?  Almighty Allah says in the Holy Quran:

 

And advance fast towards forgiveness from your Lord and Paradise whose vastness encompasses the heavens and the earth (and) which has been prepared for the pious.  Surah Ale Imran (3:133)

 

It is again mentioned in Surah Nisa:

 

But anyone, whether man or woman, who does pious acts and is a believer, they are the ones who will enter Paradise and will not be wronged a speck.  Surah Nisa (4:124)