۞ وَيَطُوفُ عَلَيْهِمْ وِلْدَٰنٌۭ مُّخَلَّدُونَ إِذَا رَأَيْتَهُمْ حَسِبْتَهُمْ لُؤْلُؤًۭا مَّنثُورًۭا
Wa yatoofu 'alaihim wildaanum mukhalladoona izaa ra aytahum hasibtahum lu'lu 'am mansoora
There will circulate among them young boys made eternal. When you see them, you would think them [as beautiful as] scattered pearls.

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And they will be waited upon by immortal youths immortally in the form of youths never ageing whom when you see them you will suppose them because of their beauty and the way in which they are scattered about offering service to be scattered pearls strewn from their string or from their shells in which they are fairer than when they the pearls are otherwise not in their shells.

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Jami` at-Tirmidhi #2256'Abdullah narrated that the Messenger of Allah (s.a.w) said:Sahih
"In the end of time there will come a people young in years, foolish in minds, reciting the Qur'an which will not go beyond their throats, uttering sayings from the best of creatures, going through the religion as an arrow goes through the target."
Sahih al-Bukhari #3120Narrated Abu Huraira:Sahih
The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "The first batch (of people) who will enter Paradise will be (glittering) like the full moon, and the batch next to them will be (glittering) like the most brilliant star in the sky. Their hearts will be as if the heart of a single man, for they will have neither enmity nor jealousy amongst themselves; everyone will have two wives from the houris, (who will be so beautiful, pure and transparent that) the marrow of the bones of their legs will be seen through the bones and the flesh."
Jami` at-Tirmidhi #2609Abu Hurairah narrated from the Messenger of Allah (s.a.w) that he said:Hasan
"The people of Paradise are without body hair, Murd, with Kuhl(on their eyelids), their youth does not come to an end, and their clothes do not wear out."
Sahih al-Bukhari #3189Narrated Abu Huraira:Sahih
Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, "The first group of people who will enter Paradise, will be glittering like the full moon and those who will follow them, will glitter like the most brilliant star in the sky. They will not urinate, relieve nature, spit, or have any nasal secretions. Their combs will be of gold, and their sweat will smell like musk. The aloes-wood will be used in their centers. Their wives will be houris. All of them will look alike and will resemble their father Adam (in stature), sixty cubits tall."
Sahih Muslim #6967Anas b. Malik reported that Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said:Sahih
In Paradise there is a street to which they would come every Friday. The north wind will blow and would scatter fragrance on their faces and on their clothes and would add to their beauty and loveliness, and then they would go back to their family after having an added lustre to their beauty and loveliness, and their family would say to them: By Allah, you have been increased in beauty and loveliness after leaving us, and they would say: By Allah, you have also increased in beauty and loveliness after us.

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