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FAITH: THE WAY TO HAPPINESS

less beauty for themselves alone:
In [the Gardens] are maidens with eyes for them alone, un -
touched before them by either man or jinn. (Surat ar-
Rahman: 56)
With expressions such as "just like closely guarded pearls"
(Surat as-Saffat: 49) and "dark-eyed maidens like hidden pearls"
(Surat al-Waqi‘a: 23), Allah describes the faultless beauty of these
spouses created solely for believers. They are without any worldly
defect and will never lose any of their beauty. All these are blessings
which Allah will grant only to believers. Believers will be pleased
with all these blessings and grateful to their Lord. Allah tells us that
the eternal happiness believers will feel and their joy is reflected in
the illumination of their faces in the verse, " You will recognize in
their faces the radiance of delight." (Surat al-Mutaffifin: 24)
Another cause of happiness for believers is the perfection of
Allah's creation of everything in Paradise. In the Garden there will
be none of the faults and flaws which annoy people in the life of this
world and which make them uncomfortable, troubled and unhappy.
Allah tells us in the Qur'an that in Paradise there will be no worldly
discomforts such as tiredness, death, illness, pain, ageing, dirtiness,
thirst, hunger and so forth:
You will not go hungry in it or suffer from nakedness. [W e
said to Adam,] "You will not go thirsty in it [the Garden] or
burn in the sun." (Surah Ta Ha: 118-119)
Without doubt, a place where a person is cleansed of all the fac-
tors which trouble and discomfort him and make him unhappy, is
also the source of the greatest comfort and luxury he can possibly
experience.
In addition, in Paradise, there will be no such concept as "need"
for believers. There they will do nothing out of necessity. Everything

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