Note 375 — THE BOOK OF THE MESNEVĪ (continued 4)

Commonly, in Islām, eight paradises, or, properly, eight mansions of Paradise, are reported, mentioned, and believed. Baydhāvī, in Qur’ān ii. 23, gives only seven, and one of those is wrong. Guided by him, however, I have corrected this, and verified the others, besides finding the eighth. Their names, then, are as follows:—1. Jennatu-’l-Khuld, the Paradise (garden) of Eternal Duration; 2. Jennatu ‘Aden, the Garden of Eden; 3. Jennatu-’l-Firdaws, the Garden of Paradise; 4. Jennatu-’l-Me’và, the Garden of the Abode; 5. Jennatu-’n-Na’īm, the Paradise of the Pleasantness; 6. Dāru-’s-Selām, the Home of Security; 7. Dāru-’l-Maqāma, the House of Sojourn; 8. ’Illiyūn, the Sublime Heights. Baydhāvī has Dāru-’l-Khuld for Jennatu-’l-Khuld; but that is one of the names of Hell, as occurring in Qur’ān xli. 28. There is also a Dāru-l-Qarār, Home of Permanence, mentioned in Qur’ān xl. 42; but it applies to Hell and Heaven, as does the Dāru-’l-Baqā, Home of Duration, commonly used, but not found in the Qur’ān.