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LV, 51-69. THE CHAPTER OF THE MERCIFUL.
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Then which of your Lord's bounties will ye twain
deny ? In each are, of every fruit, two kinds. Then which of your Lord's bounties will ye twain
deny ? Reclining on beds the linings of which are of
brocade, and the fruit of the two gardens within
reach to cull. [55] Then which of your Lord's bounties will ye
twain deny ? Therein are maids of modest glances whom no man
nor ginn has deflowered before. Then which of your Lord's bounties will ye twain
deny ? As though they were rubies and pearls. Then which of your Lord's bounties will ye twain
deny ? [60] Is the reward of goodness aught but goodness ? Then which of your Lord's bounties will ye twain
deny ? And besides these, are gardens twain, Then which of your Lord's bounties will be twain
deny ? With dark green foliage. [65] Then which of your Lord's bounties will ye
twain deny ? In each two gushing springs. Then which of your Lord's bounties will ye twain
deny ? In each fruit and palms and pomegranates. Then which of your Lord's bounties will ye twain
deny ?
1 For the inferior inhabitants of Paradise.
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