Gardens of the Righteous — Page 321
RIYADH AS-SALIHIN 321 man. The your husbands and despite your deficiency in intelligence and matters of faith you are the greatest cause of destroying the intelligence of a women asked him: What is the deficiency in intelligence and matters of faith that we suffer from? He answered: The evidence of two women is equal to that of one man and a woman cannot partake in Prayer during her monthly days (Muslim). 370. . On the Bounties of Paradise. Allah, the Exalted, has said: 424. The righteous will surely be amid gardens and fountains; they will be told: Enter therein, in peace and security. We shall cleanse their hearts of all traces of illwill; they will be as brethren seated on couches facing one another. They shall never be weary nor shall they be ejected therefrom (15. 46-49). 425. O My servants, there is no fear for you this day, nor shall you grieve. Enter the Garden, you and your companions, delighted and joyful. Dishes and cups of gold will be passed round to them and in them will be all the heart desires and in which the eyes delight. Therein will you abide. This is the Garden to which you have been made heirs, because of that which you practised. Therein for you is fruit in abundance of which you will eat (43. 69-74). 426. Verily, the righteous will be in a place of security, among gardens and springs attired in fine silk and heavy brocade, facing one another, Thus will it be. We shall give them as companions fair maidens having wide lustrous eyes. . They will call therein for every kind of fruit, dwelling in security. They will not suffer any death therein after the first death, and Allah will safeguard them against the torment of the Fire as an act of grace from thy Lord. That is the supreme triumph (44. 52-58). 427. The virtuous will be in bliss, seated on couches, viewing everything. Thou wilt discern in their faces the freshness of bliss. They will be given to drink of a pure sealed beverage, sealed with musk, and tempered with the water of Tasnim, a spring of which the chosen ones will drink. After this should the aspirants aspire (83. 23-29). 1886. Jabir relates that the Holy Prophet said that the dwellers of. Paradise will eat and drink but will not have to answer the call of nature or to