Darkness and daybreak; personal experiences, manners, customs, habits, religious and social life in Persia . MN i:iv(i riii:K. .lAfni; a da 3: seventy slave girls, and every morninf^- when he is anx-ious for food the Mussulman is g-iven all that he desires;besides, their beauty shall be as the moon in the nig-ht;their Vessels and combs shall be of gold and silver. Ever}one of them shall have two wives. Every man among-the people of paradise shall surely have 500 houries,4,000 virg-ins, 8,000 divorced women, and two larg^e-eyedhouries shall sing- to him with charming- voices. Theinhabitant
Darkness and daybreak; personal experiences, manners, customs, habits, religious and social life in Persia . MN i:iv(i riii:K. .lAfni; a da 3: seventy slave girls, and every morninf^- when he is anx-ious for food the Mussulman is g-iven all that he desires;besides, their beauty shall be as the moon in the nig-ht;their Vessels and combs shall be of gold and silver. Ever}one of them shall have two wives. Every man among-the people of paradise shall surely have 500 houries,4,000 virg-ins, 8,000 divorced women, and two larg^e-eyedhouries shall sing- to him with charming- voices. Theinhabitants of paradise have horses and camels, andthere the bridles and saddles are of rubies; and if anyman among- the inhabitants of paradise should desirechildren, they shall be born to him in one sing-le people of paradise are smooth and beardless, whiteand curly-haired ; they shall be 30 3ears of ag-e, as wasAdam when he was created ; their heig-ht shall be sixt}cubits. If a woman of Paradise should come down to theearth she would illuminate and till the space betweenheaven and earth with her perfume. The people ofParadise shall be wa
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