۞ وَعِندَهُمْ قَٰصِرَٰتُ ٱلطَّرْفِ أَتْرَابٌ
Wa 'indahum qaasiraatut tarfi atraab
And with them will be women limiting [their] glances and of equal age.
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Paradise & Hell
38:52Ayah 188
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And with them there will be maidens of restrained glances restricting their eyes to their spouses of a like age of the same age girls who are thirty three years of age atrāb is the plural of tirb.
Related Hadiths
The verse: "And say to the believing women that they should lower gaze was partly abrogated by the verse: "Such elderly women as are past the prospect of marriage."
There would come a time for the people when a person would roam about with Sadaqa of gold, but he would find no one to accept it from him. And a man would be seen followed by forty women seeking refuge with him on account of the scarcity of males and abundance of females."
"When we performed our Hajj with the Prophet we would say the Talbiyah for the women and we would stone for the boys."
Aisha said, "While the Ethiopians were playing with their small spears, Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) screened me
behind him and I watched (that display) and kept on watching till I left on my own." So you may
estimate of what age a little girl may listen to amusement.
A hadith like this has been narrated on the same chain of transmitters by 'A'isha (Allah be pleased with her).
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