Houri (Heavenly Virgin): Difference between revisions

“There is no one whom Allah will admit to Paradise but '''Allah will marry him to seventy-two wives''', two from houris and seventy from his inheritance from the people of Hell, '''all of whom will have desirable''' [شَهِيٌّ, translated here as "desirable", is used to refer to''' "food" that is "delicious, or sweet" '''<ref>[http://ejtaal.net/aa/#hw4=h587,ll=1661,ls=h4,la=h2355,sg=h580,ha=h393,br=h527,pr=h88,aan=h318,mgf=h489,vi=h218,kz=h1294,mr=h353,mn=h749,uqw=h899,umr=h587,ums=h494,umj=h436,ulq=h1041,uqa=h230,uqq=h183,bdw=h502,amr=h354,asb=h523,auh=h854,dhq=h302,mht=h492,msb=h132,tla=h64,amj=h428,ens=h552,mis=h2131 Lane's Lexicon شَهِيٌّ]</ref>] '''front passages''' [قُبُلٌ, translated here as "front passages", refers to "the anterior pudendum" or''' "vulva, and vagina"'''<ref>[http://ejtaal.net/aa/#hw4=h587,ll=h1661,ls=4,la=h2355,sg=h580,ha=h393,br=h527,pr=h88,aan=h318,mgf=h489,vi=h218,kz=h1294,mr=h353,mn=h749,uqw=h899,umr=h587,ums=h494,umj=h436,ulq=h1041,uqa=h230,uqq=h183,bdw=h502,amr=h354,asb=h523,auh=h854,dhq=h302,mht=h492,msb=h132,tla=h64,amj=h428,ens=h552,mis=h2131 Lane's Lexicon Supplement قُبُلٌ]</ref>] and '''he will have a male member''' [ذَكَرٌ, translated here as "male member", refers to''' "the male organ of generation; the penis" '''and a an adjectival form of the word is used to describe "herbs, or leguminous plants, that are hard and thick"<ref>[http://ejtaal.net/aa/#hw4=h371,ll=1013,ls=h5,la=h1507,sg=h406,ha=h241,br=h353,pr=h60,aan=h200,mgf=h324,vi=h152,kz=h786,mr=h242,mn=h448,uqw=h575,umr=h386,ums=h320,umj=h268,ulq=h754,uqa=h138,uqq=h111,bdw=h336,amr=h236,asb=h313,auh=h594,dhq=h190,mht=h314,msb=h86,tla=h50,amj=h258,ens=h191,mis=h718 Lane's Lexicon ذَكَرٌ]</ref>] '''that never becomes flaccid (i.e., soft and limp)'''.’”}}

===Scholars===

{{Quote|Sifat al-Janna, al-`Uqayli in the Du`afa’, and Musnad of Abu Bakr al-Bazzar|Anas said, Allah be well-pleased with him: The Messenger of Allah said, upon him blessings and peace: “'''The servant in Paradise shall be married with seventy wives'''.” Someone said, “Messenger of Allah, can he bear it?” He said: “He will be given strength for a hundred.” From Zayd ibn Arqam, Allah be well-pleased with him, when an incredulous Jew or Christian asked the Prophet, upon him blessings and peace, “Are you claiming that a man will eat and drink in Paradise??” He replied: “Yes, by the One in Whose hand is my soul, and '''each of them will be given the strength of a hundred men in his eating, drinking, coitus, and pleasure'''.”}}

{{Quote|al-Ghazzali, ''Ihya Uloom Ed-Din'', vol.4 p.4.|“According to Prophet Muhammad (SW), the Hurs of Paradise will be pure women, free of menstruation, urine, stool, cough and children. The Hurs will sing in Paradise on divine purity and praise—we are most beautiful Hurs and we are for the honored husbands.