56 Preface هُم وَأَزواجُهُم في ظِلالٍ عَلَى الأَرائِكِ مُتَّكِئونَYusuf AliThey and their associates1 will be in groves of (cool) shade, reclining on Thrones (of dignity);Secondly, the joy or happiness is figured to be, not solitary, but sharedshared by associates like those whom we imagine in spiritual Love or Marriage; in whose fair faces “some ray divine reflected shines” (Jami): whose society is enjoyed in homes of happiness, situated in soothing shade, and furnished with thrones of dignity and peace.