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divine sayings
“This is My Face, which discloses Itself to you forever and ever.
Rejoice, for I Myself am well-pleased with you. Enjoy! Go to your
spouses, embrace them and celebrate your marriage. [Go] to your
newborn [daughters] and play with them. [Go] to your chambers
and enter them. Go to your gardens and stroll in them. [Go] to your
mounts and ride them. [Go] to your beds and lie down upon them.
[Go] to your slave-girls and concubines in the garden [of Paradise]
and be intimate with them. [Go] to the gifts bestowed by your Lord
and receive them. [Go] to your clothing and wear it. [Go] to your
meetings and be in conversation.
“Then rest awhile, without slumber or fear of attack, within the
shelter of the shade, in peace and tranquillity, in the proximity of
the Majestic One. Retire to the river Kawthar, 7 to Kåf¬r, 8 to the
Pure Water, 9 to Tasn¨m 10 and Salsab¨l and Zanjab¨l. Bathe there and
take your delight, be blessed and may you have a good return.
“Then go and be seated upon the green cushions and beautiful
carpets, 11 on raised couches in pools of shade, with trickling water
and abundant fruits, unfailing and unrestricted.” 12
Then the Messenger of God, may God give him blessings and peace, recited:
“Indeed the inhabitants of Paradise shall be taken up with joy on
that day, they and their spouses, resting in the shade on couches.
They shall have the fruits of happiness and all that they request:
Peace, as a word of a Merciful Lord.” 13
Then he recited this other verse:
“The inhabitants of Paradise that day shall possess the better
dwelling-place and the fairer resting-place.” 14
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