Analyzing the verbal and spiritual beauty of comparing wives to clothes in the verse "They are clothes for you and you are clothes for them" (Baqarah: 187)

The Holy Quran is the divine book guiding humanity, employing various expressive methods for this purpose. The precise and captivating expression "They are garments for you, and you are garments for them" possesses extraordinary capability in conveying these concepts and intentions, encompassing both verbal and spiritual beauty. Considering the significance of discussing the verbal and spiritual beauties of the verses of the Holy Quran, this article aims to conduct a literary and rhetorical analysis of the analogy of spouses to garments. It explores the perspectives of scholars and Islamic interpreters in uncovering and analyzing the verbal and spiritual beauties of this expression. The article presents the verbal merits of the verse using this Quranic metaphor within the framework of literary and rhetorical points such as simile, metaphor, allusion, brevity, and figures of speech. Additionally, from a spiritual perspective, it extracts ethical, educational, and behavioral points such as principles of spouse selection, the nature of marital relationships, and the functions of appropriate relations like mutual tranquility, beautification and adornment, loving coexistence, and good companionship, as well as the bond and unity between spouses.