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JANNAH:
The Garden from
the Qur’an and Hadith

Another hadith mentions the bright faces of the
women in the Garden:

If one of the women of the Garden peeped into this world,
she would illuminate and fill with fragrance everything
between [heaven and earth]. Her veil is better than the
earth and everything in it. (Imam Ghazzali, Ihya Ulum
ad-Din, vol. 4; Sahih al-Bukhari)
When asked what the beauty described in the ha-

dith was like, the famous scholar, Bediuzzaman, an-
swered:
Its meaning is truly beautiful and its beauty is most
lovely. It is like this: in this world, which is ugly,
inanimate, lifeless, and for the most part just a
husk, beauty and loveliness only appear beauti-
ful to the eye, and so long as familiarity is
not an obstacle, that is sufficient.
Whereas in the Garden, which is beau-
tiful, living, brilliant, and entirely
essence without husk and kernel
without shell, like the eye, all
man’s senses and subtle

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