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“Verily, Allah will admit those who believe and do righteous deeds into gardens beneath which rivers flow, they shall be adorned therein with bracelets of gold and (with) pearls, and their garments therein shall be of silk.” In these holy verses, by the usage of the style comparison, the Qur’an states the status of the righteous believers in order that the circumstances of both of them might be distinguished through the way of comparison.

So, the Qur’an explains five sorts of reward for them here. At first, it says: “Verily, Allah will admit those who believe and do righteous deeds into gardens beneath which rivers flow…” The first group, i.e., the disbelievers, are qualified as being sent down into the burning Fire, while this group, the righteous believers, are said to be inside the gardens of Heaven, resting beside the flowing rivers.

Then, the Qur’an refers to their adornments and garments when it says: “…they shall be adorned therein with bracelets of gold and (with) pearls, and their garments therein shall be of silk.” [^1] Those two merits are their rewards in addition to others. Thus, they will wear the most beautiful clothing which they were deprived of in the world, and they will also have bracelets of gold, decorated with jewelry.

“And they are guided unto the purest of speeches, and they are guided to the Path (of Him who is) Worthy of (all) Praise.” The fourth and fifth merits which Allah bestows on them, the righteous believers, and which are merely in spiritual aspect, are that, firstly, they are guided toward the speech which is pure.