﴿ وَحُورٌ عِينٌۭ ﴾

“And [with them will be their] companions pure, most beautiful of eye,”

and houris maidens with intensely black eyes set against the whiteness of their irises with wide eyes ‘īn the ‘ayn here is inflected with a kasra instead of a damma because it the kasra better harmonises with the yā’; the singular is ‘aynā’ similar in pattern to hamrā’; a variant reading for wa-hūrun ‘īn has the genitive case wa-hūrin ‘īn