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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^[1],

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 ?

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1. For the inferior inhabitants of Paradise.