Is it true that a muslim gets 72 virgins in paradise? (woman, language)

[Woodrow LI]

Originally Posted by robertpolyglot

I find this difficult to take. Along with another thread on sex in the afterlife, I feel that sex is NOT what the afterlife is about. But that's just me. And I'm not puritanical.

I feel the same way.


There is no requirement in Islam that demands I have sex in the afterlife. But, I see no reason that if some feel it is what they desire, why it would be denied to them.

[Sci Fi Fan]

Originally Posted by Woodrow LI

They are new creations. Created especially for those who enter heaven. Basically spiritual beings created to serve the person they are created for.

Both men and women will receive them. Although they are not human they do resemble perfect humans in every aspect.

Wha-how is this any less morally despicable? Beings created solely for the purpose of being sex toys?

[Woodrow LI]

Originally Posted by Sci Fi Fan

Wha-how is this any less morally despicable? Beings created solely for the purpose of being sex toys?

That is not primary purpose. they are created to be perfect servants with no needs and only a desire to serve who they are created for.


I think the closest human concept of them would be perfect robots built to look like perfect humans.

[robertpolyglot]

Originally Posted by Woodrow LI

I feel the same way.

There is no requirement in Islam that demands I have sex in the afterlife. But, I see no reason that if some feel it is what they desire, why it would be denied to them.

The afterlife, for me, is ideally a place to REST. That's all I want from it.

[Capt. Dan]

Originally Posted by Woodrow LI

That is not primary purpose. they are created to be perfect servants with no needs and only a desire to serve who they are created for.


I think the closest human concept of them would be perfect robots built to look like perfect humans.

Or eunuchs!!!

[Woodrow LI]

Originally Posted by Capt. Dan

Or eunuchs!!!

Not quite as eunuchs are Human Beings and altered to be eunuchs,usually without their consent. They are forbidden in Islam. Islam brought an end to harems and eunuchs in Arab Nations.

[Sci Fi Fan]

Originally Posted by Woodrow LI

That is not primary purpose. they are created to be perfect servants with no needs and only a desire to serve who they are created for.

So the perfect slaves, with no free will, yet sufficient intelligence to act like normal humans?

[Woodrow LI]

Originally Posted by Sci Fi Fan

So the perfect slaves, with no free will, yet sufficient intelligence to act like normal humans?

Indestructible servants that require no maintenance. Can not be harmed or feel pain, created with eternal happiness and free from personal desires.

[hiker45]

Originally Posted by Woodrow LI

Indestructible servants that require no maintenance. Can not be harmed or feel pain, created with eternal happiness and free from personal desires.

Is that who you really want to associate with in your heaven?

[Woodrow LI]

Originally Posted by hiker45

Is that who you really want to associate with in your heaven?

I am of the school of thought that sees the concept of the Houri;Aynn as being simply an illustration that Humans in heaven can have what ever they desire.

On a personal note I have other desires that I would prefer to have fulfilled. I see that simply as verification that all I desire would be fulfilled in heaven.


A paradoxical side to this is that a person overly obsessed with sexual pleasures is probably among the least likely to reach heaven. Now that would be hell a person whose primary desire is sex to be sent for an eternity to a place where it does not exist while having full knowledge they could have had it in heaven.