In each jewel are couches, wives and maidservants. The least of them is a wide-eyed houri wearing seventy robes. The marrow of her shin is visible through her skin, and her liver is his mirror. Whenever he looks away from her, she becomes seventy times more beautiful in his eyes than before; and whenever she looks away from him, he becomes seventy times more beautiful in her eyes than before. He will say to her, “By Allah, you have become seventy times more beautiful in my eyes!” She will say to him, “And you, by Allah, have become seventy times more beautiful in my eyes!”

He said: He will then be told, “Look out,” and he will look out. He said: He will then be told, “You also have a dominion extending a hundred years’ journey, all within the reach of your sight.”

Then Umar, may Allah be pleased with him, said, “Do you not hear what we are being told by Ibn