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https://archive.org/stream/TheMessageOfTheQuran_20140419/55877864-54484011-Message-of-Quran-Muhammad-Asad-Islam-Translation_djvu.txt ""what is kept hidden for them [by way] of a joy of the eyes", i.e., of blissful delights, irrespective of whether seen, heard or felt. The expression "what is kept hidden for them" clearly alludes to the unknowable - and, therefore, only allegorically describable - quality of life in the hereafter. The impossibility of man's really "imagining" paradise has been summed up by the Prophet in the well-authenticated hadith; "God says: 'I have readied for My righteous servants what no eye has ever seen, and no ear has ever heard, and no heart of man has ever conceived'" (Bukhari and Muslim, on the authority of Abu Hurayrah; also Tirmidhi). This hadith has always been regarded by the Companions as the Prophet's own comment on the above verse'(cf. Fath al-Bari VIII, 418 f.). "
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Bahraq al-Yamanī, Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar (1996) [composed 15th-16th century]. Ḥilyat al-Banāt wa'l-Banīn wa Zīnat al-Dunyā wa'l-Dīn [The Splendour of Girls and Boys and the Adornment of This Life and the Next]. Dār al-Ḥāwī. p. 129. والنّساء الآدميّات أفضل من الحور العين بصلاتهنّ وصيامهنّ وعبادتهنّ.
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Smith & Haddad, Islamic Understanding, 1981: p.165 Smith, Jane Idleman; Haddad, Yvonne Y. (1981). The Islamic Understanding of Death and Resurrection. Albany: State University of New York Press. doi:10.1093/0195156498.001.0001.002.013 (inactive 1 July 2025). ISBN 0-87395-506-4. Retrieved 28 February 2025.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of July 2025 (link)
Kitāb aḥwāl al-qiyāma, p. 111. References to the general description of the ḥūr are abundant in the collections of traditions; see, for example, the summary and numerous citations of Ṣoubḥi El-Ṣaleḥ, La Vie Future selon le Coran. Paris: Librarie Philosophique J. Vrin, 1971, p.25. quoted in Smith & Haddad, Islamic Understanding, 1981: p.164 Smith, Jane Idleman; Haddad, Yvonne Y. (1981). The Islamic Understanding of Death and Resurrection. Albany: State University of New York Press. doi:10.1093/0195156498.001.0001.002.013 (inactive 1 July 2025). ISBN 0-87395-506-4. Retrieved 28 February 2025.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of July 2025 (link)
La Vie Future selon le Coran, p.39. quoted in Smith & Haddad, Islamic Understanding, 1981: p.164 Smith, Jane Idleman; Haddad, Yvonne Y. (1981). The Islamic Understanding of Death and Resurrection. Albany: State University of New York Press. doi:10.1093/0195156498.001.0001.002.013 (inactive 1 July 2025). ISBN 0-87395-506-4. Retrieved 28 February 2025.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of July 2025 (link)
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Smith & Haddad, Islamic Understanding, 1981: p.166 Smith, Jane Idleman; Haddad, Yvonne Y. (1981). The Islamic Understanding of Death and Resurrection. Albany: State University of New York Press. doi:10.1093/0195156498.001.0001.002.013 (inactive 1 July 2025). ISBN 0-87395-506-4. Retrieved 28 February 2025.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of July 2025 (link)

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https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/jun/21/saturdayreviewsfeatres.guardianreview26 quote: "While Dawood's translation presents the Qur'an as a patriarchal, sexist text, Khalidi brings out the gender-neutral language of the original. A good example is provided by 2:21. In Dawood we read: "Men, serve your Lord." In Khalidi, it becomes: "O People! Worship your Lord." Dawood's translation of the famous verse 2:25, frequently quoted, is largely responsible for the current misconception that Muslim paradise is full of "virgins" - despite the fact that the Qur'an explicitly denies any carnal pleasures in paradise. This is because we find "men" in Dawood's translation in the garden of paradise who are "wedded to chaste virgins". Khalidi renders it correctly: "In these gardens they have immaculate spouses"."

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Smith & Haddad, Islamic Understanding, 1981: p.165 Smith, Jane Idleman; Haddad, Yvonne Y. (1981). The Islamic Understanding of Death and Resurrection. Albany: State University of New York Press. doi:10.1093/0195156498.001.0001.002.013 (inactive 1 July 2025). ISBN 0-87395-506-4. Retrieved 28 February 2025.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of July 2025 (link)
Kitāb aḥwāl al-qiyāma, p. 111. References to the general description of the ḥūr are abundant in the collections of traditions; see, for example, the summary and numerous citations of Ṣoubḥi El-Ṣaleḥ, La Vie Future selon le Coran. Paris: Librarie Philosophique J. Vrin, 1971, p.25. quoted in Smith & Haddad, Islamic Understanding, 1981: p.164 Smith, Jane Idleman; Haddad, Yvonne Y. (1981). The Islamic Understanding of Death and Resurrection. Albany: State University of New York Press. doi:10.1093/0195156498.001.0001.002.013 (inactive 1 July 2025). ISBN 0-87395-506-4. Retrieved 28 February 2025.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of July 2025 (link)
La Vie Future selon le Coran, p.39. quoted in Smith & Haddad, Islamic Understanding, 1981: p.164 Smith, Jane Idleman; Haddad, Yvonne Y. (1981). The Islamic Understanding of Death and Resurrection. Albany: State University of New York Press. doi:10.1093/0195156498.001.0001.002.013 (inactive 1 July 2025). ISBN 0-87395-506-4. Retrieved 28 February 2025.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of July 2025 (link)
Smith & Haddad, Islamic Understanding, 1981: p.167-8 Smith, Jane Idleman; Haddad, Yvonne Y. (1981). The Islamic Understanding of Death and Resurrection. Albany: State University of New York Press. doi:10.1093/0195156498.001.0001.002.013 (inactive 1 July 2025). ISBN 0-87395-506-4. Retrieved 28 February 2025.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of July 2025 (link)
Smith & Haddad, Islamic Understanding, 1981: p.166 Smith, Jane Idleman; Haddad, Yvonne Y. (1981). The Islamic Understanding of Death and Resurrection. Albany: State University of New York Press. doi:10.1093/0195156498.001.0001.002.013 (inactive 1 July 2025). ISBN 0-87395-506-4. Retrieved 28 February 2025.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of July 2025 (link)

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