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According to At-Tabari and Ibn Kathir, among others,libaas means sakan which denotes the pleasure and comfortenjoyed by husbands living with their wives. Aya 189 insurat Al-Araaf endorses this denotation in stating the Godhas created human beings from a single person, i.e. Adam ,and He has created from him his wife, i.e., Eve, in order thathe might enjoy the pleasure of living with her. i.e., sakan :(189:) -To compensate for the inevitable loss, some translators haveadopted the strategy of turning the metaphor into simile whileothers have rightly opted for the ground of the metaphor as isshown below.- They are your garments And ye are their garments .(Ali : 76)-They are a garment for you, and you are a garment forthem(Ghali : 29)- They are garments for you while you are garments for them(Irving : 29)- They are your garments And ye are their garments(Mushaf Al-Madinah Al-Nabawiyah: 77)- They are a vestment for you, and you are a vestment for them(Arberry : 24)- They are raiment for you and ye are raiment for them(Picklthall : 35))They are clothing for you and you for them(Abdalhaqq and Aisha: Bewley : 25)- They are as a garment for you, and you are as a garmentfor them (Asad : 39 )- They are a comfort to you as you are to them(Dawood : 343)91

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