"She wanted to please Allah and get safe passage to paradise," Mamman says.
Although the ultimate prospect was of arriving safe and sound in paradise, the way there, so the Egyptians believed, was arduous and primed with any number of booby-traps.
Paradise lost, paradise regained.
"We have it made," said one, speaking not just of the lush scenery but also of the surrounding ocean, which made the island paradise seem so safe.
"My paradise is a safe Syria.
Halloween is an exhibitionist's paradise, and nowhere do more (safe for work) exhibitionists congregate than in online communities like DailyBooth, a site which asks users to upload photo booth style pictures of themselves.
Their confinement, however, was luxurious: their days spent in a predator-free bunny paradise, their bellies full and their burrows safe in the shadow of the wall.
To ensure a safe, sexy place for women, rather than a perv's paradise, the following rules are firmly enforced: "Men must not approach women.
He paints Guantánamo as a relative paradise, with prisoners well fed, kept in "clean and safe shelter" with access to DVDs and a library.
If your greed harms the environment that sustains you, paradise will disappear, as it is doing today -- the paradise of clean, safe water, air, food, shelter and climate that allowed humanity to expand over several millennia.
