Al-Jalalayn

Al-Jalalayn — Al-Jalalayn

crystal of silver that is they are made of silver which is transparent like crystal — which they that is the ones passing around them in service have measured in a precise measure according to the measure required by the one drinking it neither more nor less which makes for a most delightful drink.

Al-Jalalayn — Al-Jalalayn

And they will be given to drink therein a cup wine whose mixture that with which it is mixed is ginger

Al-Jalalayn — Al-Jalalayn

a spring ‘aynan substitutes for zanjabīlan ‘ginger’ therein named Salsabīl meaning that its water is like ginger which the Arabs find very tasteful and which is very palatable for the throat.

Al-Jalalayn — Al-Jalalayn

And they will be waited upon by immortal youths immortally in the form of youths never ageing whom when you see them you will suppose them because of their beauty and the way in which they are scattered about offering service to be scattered pearls strewn from their string or from their shells in which they are fairer than when they the pearls are otherwise not in their shells.

Al-Jalalayn — Al-Jalalayn

And when you look there that is to say when you begin to look about in Paradise you will see ra’ayta is the response to idhā ‘when’ bliss that is indescribable and a great kingdom vast without limit.