12 Preface وَيُمدِدكُم بِأَموالٍ وَبَنينَ وَيَجعَل لَكُم جَنّاتٍ وَيَجعَل لَكُم أَنهارًاYusuf Ali“?Give you increase in wealth and sons; and bestow on you gardens and bestow on you rivers (of flowing water).1Each of these blessings? rain and crops, wealth and manpower, flourishing gardens, and perennial streams?are indications of prosperity, and have not only a material but also a spiritual meaning. Note the last point, “rivers of flowing water”. The perennial springs make the prosperity as it were permanent; they indicate a settled population, honest and contented, and enjoying their blessings here on earth as the foretaste of the eternal joys of heaven.