Was it mentioned in the Quran that faithful Muslims will be rewarded with virgins?

Question

Is there verses from the Quran that say that faithful Muslims will be rewarded in heaven with virgins?

Answer 1

No. That myth was taken from a false Hadith.

Answer 2

The Quran mentions nothing about 72 virgins. What you are thinking of came from a Hadith. The Quran is consideredthe word of God given to mankind through Muhammad. The Hadith are stories and sayings of the prophet and sometimes his companions or family that have been recorded. Often there is debate over wihich hadith are authoritative and strong, as opposed to unlikely and weak. The one you mention is on the weak side.

Answer 3

Well, if it's not in the Quran, why do some Muslims take it for the truth? Do Muslims sometimes put the Holy Quran before Hadith?

Answer 4

No there is not such thing in Quran.........Quran has only mentioned about houri who would be the pious wives for good muslim ! thes virgins and that too 72 .....this is just a myth and linked to islam wronly ! there is no reality in it !!

Answer 5

Actually, no - NOT from Koran - that is from the Hadith (Islamic Tradition) collected by Al-Tirmidhi (died 892 CE)

Answer 6

The Arabic word used in that hadith is ambiguous. It could mean virgin. It could also mean raisin.

Answer 7

Please refer yourself to Verses (Suras) of the Koran Nos. 52:17-24; 55:54-56; and 78:32-34
"The Islamic Paradise is a place of sensual pleasure consisting of gluttonous feasts and endless sex orgies."

The Imperialist Nature of Islam:

From its inception, Islam has been committed to what it calls jihad - a word meaning holy war. The duty of Muslims is to subjugate or destroy "infidels" - the term the Koran uses for all non-believers.
In the Muslim viewpoint, the world is divided into regions - those areas controlled by Islam, called Dar al-Islam (meaning the House of Islam) and those called Dar al-Harb (House of War). The Koran commands Muslims to fight non-Muslims until they exterminate all other religions, leaving Islam as the one and only religion in the world (Suras 2:193 and 8:39). Muhammad is quoted in the Hadith as saying, "I have been ordered to fight with the people until they say, none has the right to be worshiped but Allah" (Hadith 4:196).

Regarding terror, Allah orders Muslims to terrorize non-Muslims on his behalf: "Strike terror (into the hearts of) the enemies of Allah and your enemies" (Sura 8:60). Allah then assures his followers that he will assist them: "I will instill terror into the hearts of unbelievers. Smite them above their necks and smite all their finger-tips off them. It is not you who slay them, it is Allah" (Sura 8:12, 17).

Concerning jihad, the Koran guarantees Paradise to those who fight for Allah (Sura 4:74). It promises instant Paradise for those who die in battle (Suras 9:111 and 47:5-6). Dying for Allah is presented as better than living: "And if you are killed or die in the Way of Allah, forgiveness and mercy from Allah are far better than all that others may amass [of wordly wealth]" (Sura 3:157).

Martyrs are promised a sensual and luxurious life in Paradise (Sura 52:17-22). According to Al-Ghazzali, one of Islam's greatest teachers, when a Martyr reaches Paradise, he "will marry 500 companions, 4,000 virgins, and 8,000 divorced women." Commenting on this statement, Randall Price, biblical teacher and Middle East expert, observed that the Islamic Paradise is "just the kind of place that adolescent, unmarried men, isolated through their lives from the opposite sex by rigid cultural standards, would die for."

P.S. It is in the Islamic Traditions that we find the 72 virgins in heaven specified: in a Hadith (Islamic Tradition) collected by Al-Tirmidhi (died 892 CE [common era]) in the Book of Sunan (Volume iv, chapters on the features of Paradise as described by the Messenger of Allah [Prophet Muhammad], chapter 21, About the Smallest Reward for the people of Paradise, (Hadith 2687). The same hadith is also quoted by Ibn Kathir (died 1373 CE) in his Koranic commentary (Tafsir) of Sura Al-Rahman (55), verse 72: "The Prophet Muhammad was heard saying: 'The smallest reward for the people of Paradise is an abode where 80,000 servants and 72 wives await them, over which stands a dome decorated with pearls, aquamarine, and ruby, as wide as the distance from Al-Jabiyyah, [a Damascus suburb] to Sana'a [Yemen]'."

I would not say that what Al-Ghazzali said regarding the number of women and companions for every person in Paradise is correct, I will go with what the Hadith says and that is, 80,000 servants and 72 wives (black-eyed virgins) for every person in Paradise.

Answer 8

Could be figs, depends on the pronunciation.