{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/rok/rok09.htm","path":"isl/rok/rok09.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/rok/rok09.htm","text":"The Religion of the Koran, by Arthur N. Wollaston, [1911]\nCHAPTER III., Verse 14.\u2014Say, \"But shall we tell you of a better thing than this?\" For those who fear are gardens with their Lord, beneath which rivers flow; they shall dwell therein for aye, and pure wives and grace from God.\nChapter III., Verse 125.\u2014And vie with one another for pardon from your Lord, and for Paradise, the breadth of which is as the heaven and the earth, prepared for those who fear; for those who expend in alms, in prosperity and adversity, for those who repress their rage, and those who pardon men; God loves the kind.\nChapter IV., Verse 123.\u2014But he who doeth good works\u2014be it male or female\u2014and believes, they shall enter into Paradise, and they shall not be wronged a jot.\nChapter VII., Verse 44.\u2014And betwixt the two there is a veil,\u2026\nBut the Fellows of the Fire shall cry out to the Fellows of Paradise, \"Pour out upon us water, or something of what God has provided you with.\" They will say, \"God has prohibited them both to those who misbelieve; who took their religion for a sport and a play; whom the life of the world beguiled!\" To-day do we forget them as\nthey forgot the meeting of this day, and for that they did deny our signs!\nChapter IX., Verse 73.\u2014God has promised to believers, men and women, gardens beneath which rivers flow, to dwell therein for aye; and goodly places in the garden of Eden, but good-will from God is the greatest of all! that is the mighty happiness!\nChapter XIII., Verse 20.\u2014Those who fulfil God's covenant and break not the compact, and those who attain what God has bidden to be attained, and dread their Lord and fear the evil reckoning up; and those who are patient, craving their Lord's face, and are steadfast in prayer, and expend in alms of what we have bestowed upon them secretly and openly, and ward off evil with good\u2014these shall have the recompense of the abode, gardens of Eden, into which they shall enter with the righteous amongst their fathers, and their wives, and their seed; and the angels shall enter in unto them from every gate: \"Peace be upon you! for that ye were patient, and goodly is the recompense of the abode!\"\nChapter XVIII., Verse 30.\u2014These, for them are gardens of Eden; beneath them rivers flow; they shall be adorned therein with bracelets of gold, and shall wear green robes of silk, and of brocade; reclining therein on thrones; pleasant is the reward, and goodly the couch!\nChapter XXXV., Verse 30.\u2014Gardens of Eden shall they enter, adorned therein with bracelets of gold and pearls; and their garments therein shall be silk; and they shall say, \"Praise belongs to God, who has removed from us our grief,\nverily, our Lord is forgiving, grateful! who has made us alight in an enduring abode of His grace, wherein no toil shall touch us, and there shall touch us no fatigue.\"\nChapter XXXVI., Verse 55.\u2014Verily, the Fellows of Paradise upon that day shall be employed in enjoyment; they and their wives, in shade upon thrones, reclining; therein shall they have fruits, and they shall have what they may call for. \"Peace!\" a speech from the merciful Lord!\nChapter XXXVII., Verse 39.\u2014Except God's sincere servants (40) these shall have a stated provision of fruits, and they shall be honoured in the gardens of pleasure, upon couches facing each other; they shall be served all round with a cup from a spring (45) white and delicious to those who drink, wherein is no insidious spirit, nor shall they be drunk therewith; and with them damsels, restraining their looks, large-eyed, as though they were a sheltered egg.\nChapter XL., Verse 44.\u2014And whoso does right, be it male or female and a believer, these shall enter into Paradise; they shall be provided therein without count.\nChapter XLIV., Verse 51.\u2014Verily, the pious shall be in a safe place! in gardens and springs, they shall be clad in satin and stout silk, face to face\u2014Thus!\u2014and we will wed them to bright and large-eyed maids! (55) They shall call therein for every fruit in safety. They shall not taste therein of death save their first death, and We will keep them from the torment of Hell! Grace from thy Lord, that is the grand bliss!\nChapter LVI., Verse (10).\nAnd the foremost foremost!\nThese are they who are brought nigh,\nIn gardens of pleasure!\nA crowd of those of yore,\nAnd a few of those of the latter day!\n(15) And gold-weft couches, reclining on them face to face.\nAround them shall go eternal youths, with goblets and ewers and a cup of flowing wine; no headache shall they feel therefrom, nor shall their wits be dimmed!\n(20) And fruits such as they deem the best;\nAnd flesh of fowl as they desire;\nAnd bright and large-eyed maids like hidden pearls;\nA reward for that which they have done!\nThey shall hear no folly there and no sin;\n(25) Only the speech, \"Peace, Peace!\"\nAnd the fellows of the right\u2014what right lucky fellows!\nAmid thornless lote trees.\nAnd banana trees with piles of fruit;\nAnd outspread shade,\n(30) And water out-poured;\nAnd fruit in abundance, neither failing nor forbidden;\nAnd beds upraised!\nVerily, we have produced them a production; (35) And made them virgins, darlings of equal age (with their spouses) for the fellows of the right! A crowd of those of yore and a crowd of those of the latter day!\nChapter LXXVI., Verse 11.\u2014And God will\nguard them from the evil of that day and will cast on them brightness and joy; and their reward for their patience shall be Paradise and silk! reclining therein upon couches, they shall neither see therein sun nor piercing cold; and close down upon them shall be its shadows; and lowered over them its fruits to cull; (15) and they shall be served round with vessels of silver and goblets that are as flagons\u2014flagons of silver\u2014which they shall mete out! And they shall drink therein a cup tempered with ginger, a spring therein named Silsabil! and there shall go round about them eternal boys; when thou seest them thou wilt think them scattered pearls; (20) and when thou seest them thou shalt see pleasure and a great estate! On them shall be garments of green embroidered satin and brocade, and they shall be adorned with bracelets of silver; and their Lord shall give them to drink pure drink! Verily, this is a reward for you, and your efforts are thanked.\nChapter LXXVIII., Verse 31.\u2014Verily, for the pious is a blissful place\u2014gardens and vineyards, and girls with swelling breasts of the same age as themselves, and a brimming cup; (35) they shall hear therein no folly and no lie\u2014a reward from thy Lord, a sufficient gift!\nChapter CI., Verse 5.\u2014And as for him whose balance is heavy, he shall be in a well-pleasing life.\nBut as for him whose balance is light, his dwelling shall be the pit of Hell.\nAnd who shall make thee know what it is? a burning fire!","title":"The Religion of the Koran: Paradise","type":"page"}