Springs. ʿUyūn. Specifically, eyes-of-water, gushing up from the earth, perpetually fresh, never exhausted. The dunyā's most precious resource (in the deserts of revelation) is named alongside the Gardens. The believer's place will have water that does not need to be drawn from any well; it springs by itself.

In the Arabia where the Qur'an was revealed, a spring was the difference between life and death. Tribes fought over them; lineages were named after them. The Garden's promise of springs in plural (ʿuyūn) is, to that audience, a stunning luxury. There is no scarcity in the Garden. There is no possession of the spring by one over another. Every believer's place has its own springs eyes-of-water opening upward, perpetually fresh. The dunyā's springs run low in summer; the Garden's springs do not have summers. The dunyā's springs can be muddied; the Garden's springs are clear. The dunyā's springs require travel; the Garden's springs are at the believer's feet. May Allah seat us by the springs of His Garden, and may every glass of cool water in this dunyā be a small remembrance of that destination.