What does the Quran use as an analogy for paradise?http://www.islamic-architecture.info/A-HIST.htm

The Quran specifically and repeatedly refers to Paradise
as a garden, described as being infinite in size and wealth, with fruits and company and
every conceivable comfort or desire.  Keep in mind that the following passages are
translated into English, and surely lose some of their literal meaning in the
translation from Arabic:

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Surely for the godfearing awaits a place of
security, gardens and vineyards and maidens with swelling breasts, like of age, and a
cup overflowing.

(The Koran Interpreted
78:31-34)

And view with one another, hastening to
forgiveness from your Lord, and to a garden whose breadth is as the Heavens and the
Earth, prepared for the godfearing.

(The Koran Interpreted
3:133)

Many archaeologists
and those who study architecture suggest that the Quran's references to and descriptions
of gardens contributed greatly to how they were designed, in ancient times and even
today.