Message #17565

[Zainab_M]

Wa'Salaam sis.

No mention of "Ridwan or Rizwan" in the Noble Quran.   It's a copycat idea from Christianity.  This notion, like many others, has crept into Muslim tradition from the altered and messed-up Christian tradition.  As we know, the forged Hadith institution drifts along the same path as the myths of altered Christianity, their only commonality being they are both unauthentic and mere guesswork.   The Noble Quran has simply confirmed that there are angels in Paradise or Jannat that will welcome the righteous. 

In Christian tradition the keeper of Heaven (which they informally refer to as "Pearly Gates") is presumed to be some person by the name "Simon Peter" who was supposedly a companion of Jesus (son of Virgin Maryam).  According to Christian myths, this man was given the keys of the Heaven and he admits into Paradise only those whose names are mentioned in the "book of life" and denies entry to those whose names aren't mentioned in this book.   In both altered Christianity and Judaism (including the master gossip Jewish hadith, Talmud) the "book of life" is said to be the book in which The Almighty records the names of every person who is destined for Paradise.   It's from unwarranted stories like these that Muslim traditionalists (who aren't content with the Quran alone and don't consider the original & final Divine Message to be sufficient as The Sole Criterion) have chosen a name for the angel of Paradise as "Rizwan."  The only difference between "simon peter" and "rizwan" is that the former is a human being while the latter is an angel.


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