A woman bore many children in succession, but none of
them lived beyond the age of three or four months. In
great distress she cried to God, and then beheld in
a vision the beautiful gardens of Paradise, and many
fair mansions therein, and upon one of these mansions
she read her own name inscribed. And a voice from
heaven informed her that God would accept the sorrows
she had endured in lieu of her blood shed in holy
war, as, owing to her sex, she was unable to go out
to battle like the men. On looking again, the woman
beheld in Paradise all the children she had lost, and
she cried, "O Lord! they were lost to me, but safe
with Thee!"