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وَحُورٌ عِينٌ
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-Al-Wâqi‘ah ( الواقعة )

Tafsir al-Jalalayn

and houris, maidens with intensely black eyes [set] against the whiteness [of their irises], with wide eyes (‘īn: the ‘ayn here is inflected with a kasra instead of a damma because it [the kasra] better harmonises with the yā’; the singular is ‘aynā’, similar [in pattern] to hamrā’; a variant reading [for wa-hūrun ‘īn] has the genitive case wa-hūrin ‘īn)


Tafsir al-Jalalayn, trans. Feras Hamza
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