For most people the idea of having a nice time in a luxurious garden setting invariably involves gossip with friends. And gossip, in order to be fun, easily turns into vain talks and even accounts-which-are-not-so. By promising their total absence in Paradise, the Qur’an is reforming our idea of fun. Paradise is the ideal place. Every possible means of joy will be there. If something will not be there, that is sufficient evidence that that thing is not enjoyable or desirable, regardless of its appearance