I'm dying to know but where did the 72 virgins come from?

Question

This is too funny but if a male martyr gets 72 virgins in Heaven then is the Males heaven the females hell? What do the women get? {Has anyone read the joke about the 72 Virginians and Osama BinLaden?}

The 72 Virginians
Ben Laden's Paradise
After getting nailed by a Daisy Cutter, Osama made his way to the pearly gates. There, he is greeted by George Washington. "How dare you attack the nation I helped conceive!" yells Mr. Washington, slapping Osama in the face.

Patrick Henry comes up from behind. "You wanted to end the Americans' liberty, so they gave you death!" Henry punches Osama on the nose.

James Madison comes up next, and says "This is why I allowed the Federal government to provide for the common defense!" He drops a large weight on Osama's knee.

Osama is subject to similar beatings from John Randolph of Roanoke, James Monroe, and 65 other people who have the same love for liberty and America.

As he writhes on the ground, Thomas Jefferson picks him up to hurl him back toward the gate where he is to be judged.

As Osama awaits his journey to his final very hot destination, he screams "This is not what I was promised!"

An angel replies "I told you there would be 72 Virginians waiting for you, idiot. What did you think I said?"

Answer 1

A_K is right.

The hadith (which are mostly a collection of anecdotes about Muhammad's life and are not entirely reliable) makes reference to a concept of 'houri' - for some reason, this is often translated into English as 'virgin', but as I understand, it can be interpreted more as 'pure' - some people understand the hadith to mean 'the rewards of heaven will be 72 times greater than any earthly woman'.

In any case, it's a very small aspect of the religion. I live in a Muslim country and people here treat the houris just as a silly joke. Nobody takes it seriously. The Qur'an promises married people an eternity together in the afterlife - which, I've recently learnt to my surprise, the Bible apparently doesn't.

The hadith was addressed to men, and so it doesn't say what women get... People here say that if men get 72 houris, women will get 72 Nuri's (it's a man's name, and a silly pun) :)

Take care

Answer 2

Quite simply, the terrorists get the 72 virgins, that is heaven for the terrorists. But for the 72 virgins, that is their hell!

Answer 3

Do you know how ugly a Muslim woman would have to be to reach Paradise still a virgin. I would love to be a fly on the wall there to see the look on "martyr's" faces when they see the long line of ugly women that are their reward.

Answer 4

Its an nonsense story somewhere in the hadith books which is lie which is very wrongly attributed to Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). The people who are bringing it over and over again are the people without any knowledge and their agenda is to flame the hatred against Islam. These people are terrorists who can't live in peace.

Answer 5

You have misread the sacred and holy Koran! It is not 72 virgins - it a 72 year old virgin.

Answer 6

Those muslim "martyrs" are also dying to know where the 72 virgins come from. They're gonna be SOOO disappointed. There's a rumor that Allah is running out of virgins.....
Could you post a link to that joke, please?

Answer 7

Debra, unfortunately Muslim men are quite serious about their place in the future relative to the place of muslim women. Kind of reminds me of the polygamist tendencies of early Mormonism.

Answer 8

And what happens to those virgins after the men get tired of them? The'ye not virgins any more.

Answer 9

It comes from the same superstitious imagination where Christians created some dude named Jesus who is the son of a god.

It's all a load of bull crap.

Answer 10

I haven't heard the joke! I'm interested, haha