Response to these arguments:

 If they meant that paradise has not yet been created at all and that it is absolutely inexistent in the present, then their claim is false; for facts from the Qur´an and the Sunnah repudiate it. Such a claim also contradicts what is known in religion by necessity. If they meant that Paradise had not been completely created then this is an incontestable truth.

As for the proofs they mention, what those proofs indicate is that the land of Paradise has already been created and that is presently exists. As for remembrance of Allah mentioned in the Hadith, Allah will created a plant in the land of Paradise. The same applies for building of houses for those who perform the righteous deeds mentioned in the Hadiths. The more a servant performs righteous deeds, the more Allah expands for him his place in Paradise. (1)

Qadi Mundhir ibn Sa´eed said: ´´the Paradise in which Adam lived was not the eternal Paradise. He supported this view with the following arguments:

One: Had it been the everlasting Paradise, Adam would not have eaten from the forbidden tree in order to have eternal life. Also, Satan had lied in that Paradise while there will be no lying in the eternal Paradise. Equally, whoever is admitted to the eternal Paradise will never be expelled from it. He would rather abide therein forever, while Adam and Eve, peace be upon them - were sent out of it.

Ibn Hazm has refuted all these arguments with the following statement:

´´There is no proof in all this. It is known that Adam´s belief that he would have eternal life by eating from the forbidden tree was incorrect; it was only a wrong assumption on his part. Therefore, and action that was based on a wrong assumption could not be cited as a proff. This is in addition to the fact that Allah did not inform Adam that he would live forever in Paradise because He - High and Ecalted - had prior knowledge that He would expel him from there. (2)

Shaykh al-Islam ibn Taymiyyah clearly mentioned that the Paradise in which Adam lived was the eternal Paradise. Je said: ´´Whoever says that it was a Paradise in the land of India or any other place on the earth is indeed among the apostates or the heretics. For, this is the claim of the philosophists and  the Mu´tazilites; and the Qur´an and the Sunnah repudiate this claim. ´´(1)

Therefore, the correct and the preponderant opinion is that it was in the eternal Paradise that Prophet Adam and his wife, peace be upon them - lived. This opinion is supported by the following proofs:

1. The word ´Paradise´ is mentioned in the Qur´an affixed by the article (alif and laam) which indicate definiteness. Allah says:

´´And We said: O Adam! Dwell you and your wife in the Paradise.´´ (Al-Baqarah 2:35)

´´And O Adam! Dwell you and your wife in Paradise.´´ (Al-A´raaf: 7:19)

And there is no known Paradise except the everlasting Paradise. It has become a proper name whereby whenever the word ´Al-Jannah´ is mentioned; it is naturany understood to be the Paradise that the believers have in mind. Whenever the word is intended for something else, it is mentioned in an inderfinite form or qualified with another word or explained by the context. (2) Examples of this are the following statements of Allah:

´´Two gardens of grapes.´´ (al-Kahf 18:32)

´´It was better for you to say, when you entered your garden.´´ (Al-Kahf 18:39)

´´Verily, We have tried them as We tried the people of the garden (Al-Qalam 68:17)

2. Allah describes the Paradise in which Adam lived with descriptions that could only be those of the everlasting Paradise. Allah says:

´´Verily, you have (a promise from US) that you will never be hungry therein nor naked. And you (will) suffer not from thirst therein nor from the sun´s heat.´´ (ta Ha 20:118-119)

It could obviously be seen that the matters mentioned in the above two verses are signs that are only found in the worldly life. No human being can escape being afficted by some - if not all of them - while he is still in this world, even if he enjoys the best and the most pleasant positions in this world. (1)

3. allah says:

´´And (remember) when We said to the angels: ´´Oristrate Yourselves before Adam.´´ And they prostrated except Iblis (Satan), he refused and was proud and was one of the disbelievers (disobedient to Allah). And We said: ´´O Adam! Dwell you and your wife in the Paradise and eat both of you freely with pleasure and delight, of things therein as wherever you will, but come not near this tree or you both will be of the zaalimoon (wrong-doers).´´ Then the Shaitaan (Satan) made them slip therefrom (the Paradise), and got them our from that in which they were. We said: ´´Get you down, all, with enmity between yourselves. On earth will be a dwelling pleace for you and an enjoyment for a time.´´ (Al-Baqarah 2:34-36)

In the above verses. Allah explains that He commanded them (the humans) to get down to the earth, that there would be enmity between them and that they were not initially in the earth; and that it was later that they were commanded to get down there. For, if they had been in the earth before and they then moved from a land to another like the movement of Prophet Moosaa´s people from one land to another, their dwelling and their enjoyment for a time would have been in the earth before and after their getting down. (1)

4. Al-Bukhari and Muslim recorded on the authority of Abu Hurayrah, may Allah be pleased with him, that the Prophet, blessings and peace of Allah be upon him, said: 

´´Adam and Moses met, and Moses said to Adam, ´ You are the one who made people miserable and turned them our of Pardsise. Adam said to him, ´You are the one whom Allah selected from His message and whom He selected for Himself and upon whom He revealted the Torah.´ Moses said, ´Yes.´ Adam said, ´did you find that written in my fate before my creation? Moses said, ´Yes.´ Sp Adam overcame Moses witht eh argument.´´

The essence of this Hadith is that Moses, peace be upon him - blamed Adam, peace be upon him - for being the cause of his progeny´s removal from the eternal abode of bliss to the abode of misery and hardship. (This indicates that Adam lived in the eternal Paradise)- (1)

Shaykh Al-Islam ibn Taymiyyah said: ´´Adam, peace be upon him - supported his arguemtn with Moses with the fact that man is commanded to bear whatever Allah has written down for him or hardships and calamities with patience, to return to Him in repentance and to seek His forgiveness from all sins. And Allah knows best.´´(2)

5. Imaam Muslim recoreded on the authority of Abu Hurayrah, may Allah be pleased with him, that the Messenger of Allah blessings and peace of Allah be upon him, said:

´´Allah, the Blessed and Exalted, would gather people. The believers would stand till the Paradise would eb brotught near them. They would come to Adam and say: O our father, open for us the Paradise. He would say: What turned you out from the Paradise was the sin of your father?´´

This Hadith indicates that the Paradise in which Adam lived was the eternal Paradise which mankind would seek its opening on the Day of Resurrection and which they would seek to enter on that day. (1)