Descriptions of Paradise in the Quran: bullet Sura (chapter) 2:82: But those who have faith and work righteousness, they are companions of the Garden: Therein shall they abide (For ever). bullet 3:133: Be quick in the race for forgiveness from your Lord, and for a Garden whose width is that (of the whole) of the heavens and of the earth, prepared for the righteous. bullet 3:185: Every soul shall have a taste of death: And only on the Day of Judgment shall you be paid your full recompense. Only he who is saved far from the Fire and admitted to the Garden will have attained the object (of Life): For the life of this world is but goods and chattels of deception. bullet 18:107: As to those who believe and work righteous deeds, they have, for their entertainment, the Gardens of Paradise. bullet 39:73: And those who feared their Lord will be led to the Garden in crowds: until behold, they arrive there; its gates will be opened; and its keepers will say: Peace be upon you! well have ye done! enter ye here, to dwell therein. bullet 39:74: They will say: Praise be to God, Who has truly fulfilled His Promise to us, and has given us (this) land in heritage: We can dwell in the Garden as we will: how excellent a reward for those who work (righteousness)! bullet 47:15: (Here is) a Parable of the Garden which the righteous are promised: in it are rivers of water incorruptible; rivers of milk of which the taste never changes; rivers of wine, a joy to those who drink; and rivers of honey pure and clear. In it there are for them all kinds of fruits; and Grace from their Lord.... bullet Sura 56:1-40 of the Quran deals in depth with the Day of Judgment and the rewards that await persons who have led a good life. bullet 56:15-21: [They will sit] on gold-encrusted thrones of happiness, reclining upon them, facing one another in [love]. Immortal youths will wait upon them with goblets, and ewers, and cups filled with water from unsullied springs by which their minds will not be clouded and which will not make them drunk; and with fruit of any kind that they choose, and with flesh of any fowl that they may desire. bullet 56:22-26: And [accompanying them will be their] companions pure, most beautiful of eye, like unto pearls hidden in their shells. [This will be] a reward for what they did [during life]. No empty talk will they hear there, nor any call to sin, but only the tiding of inner soundness and peace. bullet 56:27-33: Now as for those who have attained to righteousness- what of those who have attained to righteousness? [They too will find themselves] admist fruit-laden lote-trees, and acacias flower-clad, and shade extended, and waters gushing, and fruit abounding, never-failing and never out of reach. bullet 56:34-37: And [with them will be their] spouses, raised high; for behold, We shall have brought them into being in a life renewed, having resurrected them as virgins, full of love, well matched to those who have attained to righteousness bullet Surah 55 discusses the presence of húr. They have most commonly been considered to be Houris -- beautiful virgins: bullet 55:70: In them will be fair [Maidens], good, beautiful. bullet 55:72: Maidens restrained [as to their glances], in [goodly] pavilions. bullet 55:74: Whom no man or Jinn before them has touched.
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