Paradise
The triliteral root jīm nūn nūn (ج ن ن) occurs in the Quran 201 times.
Paradise is the term for gardens of eternal pleasure. The Abrahamic faiths associate Paradise with the Garden of Eden.
Etymology
The word "paradise" entered English from the French paradis, inherited from the Latin paradisus, from Greek parádeisos (παράδεισος), from an Iranian source similar to Avestan pairidaeza "enclosure, park" (Modern Persian and Arabic firdaus "garden, paradise"), compound of pairi- "around" (from PIE root *per- (1) "forward," hence "in front of, near, against, around") + diz "to make, form (a wall)."
The first element is cognate with Greek peri "around, about" (see per), the second is from PIE root *dheigh- "to form, build."
In The Quran
(23:10-11) These are the inheritors. The ones who shall inherit Paradise (Arab. الْفِرْدَوْسَ, l-fir'dawsa), in it they will abide.
(18:107) Those who acknowledge and do good works, they will have gardens of Paradise (Arab. الْفِرْدَوْسِ, l-fir'dawsi) as a dwelling place.
In The Hebrew Bible
(Songs 4:13) Your plants (are) an orchard (Hebrew פַּרְדֵּ֣ס, par-dês) of pomegranates With fruits, With choice of camphor and spikenard,
(Ecclesiastes 2:5) I made to me gardens orchards (Hebrew וּפַרְדֵּסִ֑ים, ū-p̄ar-dê-sîm), and I planted in trees all (kind of) fruits
(Nehemiah 2:8) and a letter to Asaph the keeper of the king's forest (Hebrew הַפַּרְדֵּ֜ס, hap-par-dês), that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the fortress which is by the temple, for the wall of the city and for the house to which I will go." And the king granted them to me because the good hand of my God was on me.
In The Art
Phil Collins - Another Day In Paradise
