The prophet (pbuh) said no one is single in paradise.
There is no person that's single in paradise.
Adam (a.s) was given hawa
and everyone that enters into Jannah would be given a spouse.
Who that spouse is? It depends.
Sisters asked all the time about all this mention of Hoor-al-Ayn and so on and so forth;
Spouses for men, What about women?
There's no such thing as haram /forbidden in Jannah.
Something very beautiful, the prophet (pbuh) aid about spouses in Jannah..
Ibn Abbas(ra),he says that Adam (a.s) after.....
Now we are talking about after Shaitan was initially cast out.
And Adam (a.s) has went through the initial greetings with Allah
and the angels and so on and so forth.
Adam (a.s) is in this beautiful paradise and so on, so forth.
But Adam Ali has encountered loneliness.
Ibn Abbas (Ra), he narrates that he used to go and
he used to talk to the angels,
but the angels were busy in their the glorification of Allah,
yet he would find them busy in their Dhikr (Remembering Allah).
So he's walking around Jannah / paradise..
he's looking for a friend, he's looking for a companion, he's looking for anyone.
And he found himself lonely.
And then one day, as Adam (a.s) is asleep, and of course, none of this is in Hadith.
This could very much so just be one of the stories of the people of the book.
But Adam (a.s) awakes to find his spouse; Hawā / Eve,
Now, Hawa is her name, according to many of the scholars,
because she was created from something that was living.
So he opens his eyes and he finds his wife, Hawa.
He finds his wife Eve.
And Eve is a righteous woman.
And Subhanallah, we don't know much about her.
We don't hear much about her.
We will, inshallah, study a little bit about her.
But she was a righteous woman.
And there's something very beautiful about this.
Allah (swt) says...
from the signs of Allah that he created for you spouses from amongst yourselves,
so that you could dwell with one another.
So the dwelling of Adam (a.s) with Eve was the first part of it.
And then Allah put compassion and mercy and love between the spouses.
Now, this is very powerful and this is very important that
the Prophet (pbuh) tells us in paradise, This is a hadith of sahih Muslim,
The propeht (pbuh) said, No one is single in paradise
There is no person that's single in paradise.
Adam (a.s) has given Hawa,
and everyone that enters into Jannah would be given a spouse.
Who that spouse is, it depends.
Allah says...
First and foremost, those that were married would enter together.
Okay?
And Allah says enter you and your spouses right in this situation.
And the scholars, they say that the first relationship that Allah created in the world
was that of Adam and Eve between human beings,
even the parent and the child relationship came later,
and Ibn Kathir (rah), the author of this book,
he goes through these possibilities, what would happen in Jannah for people.
He says, it's possible,
for example, that someone that you loved in Dunia,
but you were unable to marry for some reason,
you would be married to that person.
So that's one possibility, okay?
Or it's possible that it could just be a heavenly spouse.
So you did not necessarily it wasn't a love in this world.
It wasn't someone that was desired in this world.
It's not someone from this world,
but you're given a heavenly spouse or you're given heavenly spouses.
Sisters asked all the time about
all this mention of Hoor-al-Ayn /maidens and so on and so forth.
Spouses for men, what about women?
There's no such thing as haram in Jannah.
There is no such thing as something that's impermissible in Jannah.
A person can have whatever they want,
but Allah addresses and Imam Ibn Hajar (Rah) said,
that which is common and that which is known.
Okay?
So we really have no restrictions in paradise.
But the point is,
the prophet (pbuh) says that there is no person that's single in Jannah.
Just like Adam (pbuh) was not left single in Jannah.
Now, let's say that you enter into Jannah with your spouse.
I've actually had people come to me and say,
if going to Jannah means I'm still going to be with my wife, it's not paradise..
Or if going to Jannah means he's still going to be there, it's not really Jannah,
Can I get to Jannah and can I switch out husbands?
Can I switch out wives in Jannah?
It's not going to be like when you enter paradise,
it's not going to be like, not you again, right?
Can you go to that other house in Jannah?
And can I have my own space in Jannah, Okay?
Because in Jannah, number one, there are no grudges, no ill feelings.
You might work out your problems before you get into Jannah.
Number two, there is no dissatisfaction in Jannah, okay?
And you will love your spouse in Jannah, whether it's a spouse that is heavenly or
a spouse that is from the people of Dunia, whoever it is, you will love that spouse.
And lastly, something very beautiful,
the Prophet (pbuh) said about spouses in Jannah,
the messenger (pbuh), he said that
every time a person sees their spouse in Jannah, that they would see that
their spouse is more beautiful than the last time they saw them.
And you would say to your wife that
you're even more beautiful than the last time I saw you.
And she would say, subhanallah,
and you're even more handsome than the last time I saw you.
Meaning part of Jannah is that Allah (swt) makes the spouses
perpetually more attractive, more beautiful, more loving, and so on and so forth.
So it grows, right?
Whereas in Dunya, obviously, we grow older and we lose interest.
But Subhanallah, Allah grows that interest.
He grows that attraction so that the bond continues
to get stronger and stronger and stronger in Jannah.
And so Allah gave Hawa to Adam (a.s)
and we ask Allah to enter us into JANNAH AL FIRDOUS
with our spouses in the companionship of Rasulallah (pbuh) -ameen.