Where do Muslims think the virgins that are given to martyrs come from?

Question

Are they real spirits? Are they fantasies? Are they slaves? Are they children? I am trying to understand the Muslim religion, and not trying to insult it. But I don't understand their views of women. Please explain this in your own words. No quotes from the Q'ran please. If I understood them, I wouldn't be asking.

What do Muslim women think of this? And what gifts do righteous women receive?

Thankyou, Amine. Your English isn't great but you've helped me understand, somewhat. I'll leave the question open for a while to get more answers.

Answer 1

The virgins and 72 virgins for that matter date back to the early 11th century where Hassan Sabah , a Nizari Ismaili, chose the fortress of Alamut (Alborz mountains of northern Iran) in 1090 as his base for a revolt against the Turkic Seljuq rulers of Persia.

He and his hit men were called "Hashashin". Sabah drugged his men (hashish), transported them into a beautiful garden that posed as Paradise and promised them everlasting bliss and virgins on completion of their murderous missions (great incentive, huh). While under the influence of drugs, his hit men took part in suicide missions against prominent figures in mosques and other public places, etc .on the basis that they will die and go to this concocted Paradise. You can read more about it here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashashin

While i'm a muslim...i don't take the description of heaven literally...not the alcohol, not the virgins (hur ein), none of it. I think the description is beneath God...absolutely degrading. It's almost described as a brothel or whorehouse and God as a pimp.

Answer 2

You are comparing a creation of God that will exist only in heaven to a creation of God who is human. If you don't know than in heaven there are also kids who are servants; so you will ask a question are they slaves ???

God created human (man and woman) and he examine them on earth and following the result there will be a reward or punishment. This definition does not apply about the virgins of heaven as you call them !

You have to know that even the woman has a reward; I don't know about the details.

We Muslim think that God if he want something than he just say Be and it will happen.

Are they real spirits? Are they fantasies? Are they slaves? Are they children?
For sure they are not children because they are woman. Lets say they are a creation of God and he created them to be a reward; don't compare them to the woman of earth because a woman who will enter the heaven is better than all the virgins of the heaven; God want it like this.

Answer 3

Keep in mind, you're talking about paradise. Where we will have new bodies, that never get tired or sick or commit evil.

So, the virgins could be people who were purified in that way. Or who had died as virgins. It is simply one of the many rewards of heaven/paradise.

By the way, a martyr in Islam is NOT someone who kills themself. And it's not everyone who is killed by a non-Muslim, either. It is someone who is killed FOR THE SAKE OF GOD/ALLAH (meaning, they did it to please Him, not for other reasons) and who is killed BECAUSE OF THEIR FOLLOWING ISLAM, such as simply for being Muslims. So, if a hate criminal sharp shoots an innocent muslim mom (which happened recently in the news in CA), and the person was killed simply for being Muslim - then they die as a martyr. Martyrs are guaranteed paradise.

Answer 4

Virgins in Paradise is a reward promised by Allah سبحانه و تعالى. The number that each man gets, Allah سبحانه و تعالى knows best. (72 is for the martyrs).

Abu Umama narrated: "The Messenger of God said, 'Everyone that God admits into paradise will be married to 72 wives; two of them are houris and seventy of his inheritance of the [female] dwellers of hell. All of them will have libidinous sex organs and he will have an ever-erect penis.' "
Sunan Ibn Majah, Zuhd (Book of Abstinence) 39

It was mentioned by Daraj Ibn Abi Hatim, that Abu al-Haytham 'Adullah Ibn Wahb narrated from Abu Sa'id al-Khudhri, who heard the Prophet Muhammad PBUH saying, 'The smallest reward for the people of Heaven is an abode where there are eighty thousand servants and seventy-two houri, over which stands a dome decorated with pearls, aquamarine and ruby, as wide as the distance from al-Jabiyyah to San'a.
Al-Tirmidhi, Vol. 4, Ch. 21, No. 2687

Each time we sleep with a Houri we find her virgin. Besides, the penis of the Elected never softens. The erection is eternal; the sensation that you feel each time you make love is utterly delicious and out of this world and were you to experience it in this world you would faint. Each chosen one [i.e. Muslim] will marry seventy [sic] houris, besides the women he married on earth, and all will have appetizing vaginas.
Al-Itqan fi Ulum al-Qur'an, p. 351

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.”
Sifat al-Janna, al-`Uqayli in the Du`afa’, and Musnad of Abu Bakr al-Bazzar

This [Qur'an 78:33] means round breasts. They meant by this that the breasts of these girls will be fully rounded and not sagging, because they will be virgins, equal in age.

Tafsir Ibn Kathir, Abridged, Volume 10 Surat At-Tagabun to the end of the Qur'an, 333-334

Answer 5

Muslims do not think that,It is a Western concoction.
What are described in Islam are Hur which will serve in heaven but there is no sexual description or attachment to them.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

the Hurun Ein don't necessarily mean "virgin girls" it means pure creatures most likely to be angels.

they are servants of the people of paradise. they are not for "sex". if your spouse makes it to heaven he/she will join your company.

hope this clarifies it for ya.

peace.

Answer 8

the muslim women who go to heaven get recycled into virgins as rewards for the rightous.