Why eternal Abode in the Paradise or Punishment in the Fire
أَبِي رَحِمَهُ اللَّهُ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا سَعْدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا الْقَاسِمُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ سُلَيْمَانَ بْنِ دَاوُدَ الشَّاذَكُونِيِّ عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ يُونُسَ عَنْ أَبِي هَاشِمٍ قَالَ: سَأَلْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع عَنِ الْخُلُودِ فِي الْجَنَّةِ وَ النَّارِ قَالَ إِنَّمَا خُلِّدَ أَهْلُ النَّارِ فِي النَّارِ لِأَنَ نِيَّاتِهِمْ كَانَتْ فِي الدُّنْيَا لَوْ خُلِّدُوا فِيهَا أَنْ يَعْصُوا اللَّهَ أَبَداً وَ إِنَّمَا خُلِّدَ أَهْلُ الْجَنَّةِ فِي الْجَنَّةِ لِأَنَّ نِيَّاتِهِمْ كَانَتْ فِي الدُّنْيَا لَوْ بَقُوا أَنْ يُطِيعُوا اللَّهَ أَبَداً مَا بَقُوا فَالنِّيَّاتُ تُخَلِّدُ هَؤُلَاءِ وَ هَؤُلَاءِ ثُمَّ تَلَا قَوْلَهُ تَعَالَى قُلْ كُلٌّ يَعْمَلُ عَلى شاكِلَتِهِ قَالَ عَلَى نِيَّتِهِ.
My father said, ‘Sa’ad Bin Abdullah narrated to us, from Al Qasim Bin Muhammad, from Suleyman Bin Dawood Al Shazkown, from Ahmad Bin Yunus, from Abu Hashim who said,
‘I asked Abu Abdullah-asws about the eternity in the Paradise and the Fire. He-asws said: ‘But rather eternity is for the people of the Fire in the Fire because their intentions when they were in the world was such that had they remained therein eternally, they would have disobeyed for ever; and the eternity for the people of the Paradise in the Paradise is because their intentions when they were in the world were such that had they remained they would have obeyed Allah-azwj forever, for as long as they had remained. Thus the intentions of those ones and these ones were eternal’. Then he-asws recited the Words of the High [17:84] Say: Every one acts according to his own disposition. He-asws said: ‘Upon his intention’.[1]
[1] ILLAL AL SHARAIE – V 2 Ch 299 H 1