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BASIC TENETS OF ISLAM

constant thanks to Allah. The human soul burns with love of
Allah in paradise. You look at a pitcher in paradise and you
give thanks to Allah. You can even talk to it. You can tell it to

turn a bit to the right and it will do so. And if you tell it to
bring you a cool drink, it will bring you one. Pour it out, you
say, and it will pour it into a glass. Go back to your place you
say, and back it goes. Paradise is very pleasant and
entertaining like that. Allah has created it specially to be like
that. But in this world we are bound by direct causes. I
cannot bring something to me without stretching my hand

out for it. I am bound by direct causes. Yet it is not my hand
that brings it here. Allah creates that in my head. He creates
my hand as the direct cause. But in paradise, the most
beloved thing is talking with the Prophets. And also one's
spouse will be manifested there in the most beautiful forms.
They will be manifested in hundreds of physical bodies. The
women of paradise are more beautiful than houris. I mean,
devout women are more beautiful. They are much more
beautiful both in terms of quality, and beauty and the delight
they give the soul. But there are also the houris, the children

and youths of the paradise and they are its beauty and
adornment. They are young and lovely men, lovely children
and young and lovely women, who wait on Muslims. They
are all entities specially created by Allah but just like human
beings, blessed and glorious beings who recall Allah in their
speech and language. But if we are married, we know our
spouse's moral values and the hardships they have suffered

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