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JANNAH:
The Garden from
the Qur’an and Hadith
Pearls are a good example of the rare value of the blessings of the
Garden. Divers must go down several times into the dangerous depths
of the sea to bring them up, and this adornment is found in only a few
of the many oysters that are collected. Besides its beauty, what gives val-
ue to this little object is, as we said above, the effort required to obtain it
and its great rarity.
Much time, effort and expense is required in this world to obtain
the pearl, but they are abundant in the world to come. The fact that such
a rare and valuable object of beauty is plentiful will doubtless produce
a particular excitement in the human spirit. Moreover, the blessings of
the Garden revealed in the Qur’an will have a beauty that is beyond our
capacity to imagine. The hadith mention a pearl that illuminates every-
thing between East and West, but we cannot completely picture the bril-
liance and splendour of such a pearl in our minds.
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