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Surah An-Naba — 78:33

وَكَوَاعِبَ أَتْرَابًا

Wa kaawa 'iba at raaba

I dziewczęta o zaokrąglonych piersiach - jednakowej młodości,

and well-matched companions of blossoming youth,

Reflection

Atrāb is the word that shapes the picture: peers, people of one age, companions on level footing. Kawāʿib has been read more than one way, some commentators taking it as a description of physical youth and others hearing the fullness of life in it, and the surah leaves the matter at a single word. The reward arrives as four short rhyming images, answering the heat and thirst described a few lines above.

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