and a brimming cup.That is, continuously full.Once, a wise man (ḥakīm) met another wise man in Mosul and said to him, ‘Do you long for the dark-eyed houris?’ He replied: ‘Should I not long for them, when the light of their faces is from the light of God, Majestic and Mighty is He?’ At this he [the wise man] fell into a swoon and was carried to his home. For a month afterwards people would visit him due to his sickness.Ibn ʿAbbās, y said, ‘If one of the maidens [of Paradise] were to spit into the seven seas, they would become sweeter than honey.’ But God, Glorified and Exalted is He, knows best.His words, Exalted is He:
