Page 48 - Paradise: The Believers' Real Home

46 PARADISE

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The "shady nooks" may be special spaces created so that
believers can sit and observe all of this beauty. (Allah knows
best) As with mansions, these shady nooks also are placed in
high places so that the people in Paradise can view the beauty
below and see its many details. Shady nooks offer special plea-
sure to believers. For example, people are served various
kinds of food and fruits there, come together there and hold
pleasurable conversations, and enjoy themselves there. Their
being placed next to springs, spaces that give pleasure to the
human soul, adds to their attractiveness. From these springs
flow delicious waters.
Another natural beauty is the gardens. For example, the
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have been prepared only for believers. One of their particular
features is the harmony of natural beauty contained therein.
Within them grow a never-ending variety of plants, similar to
the most delicate and sweet-smelling ones on Earth, and sev-
eral species of animals, both known and unknown to us.
The gardens are adorned with various fruit and other types
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of trees, plains of "deep viridian green" (Surat ar-Rahman, 64)
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plants and flowers, and, in some places, pools and fountains.
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