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The Qur'an compares women to "rubies and coral" (Surat
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ar-Rahman, 58). These elegant and valuable stones, which are
so pleasing to the eye, are used in the Qur'an to stress these
women's striking beauty. We can imagine that comparing the
women to rubies and coral is meant to describe their bright
and pure complexion.
Due to these terse comparisons and essential descrip-
tions, believers can understand how great a reward Allah has
prepared for them. Thus, they pray even more to attain
Allah's good pleasure and mercy, to be received into His
Paradise, and exert great effort to attain it.
Allah has not revealed all of Paradise's blessings in the
Qur'an, for they are beyond any human being's ability to imag-
ine and conceive. In Paradise, Allah offers believers countless
blessings that the eye has never seen and the ear has never
heard.