Is there sex in heaven according to Islam?
If there is, then how does God handle two people who were married on earth, and one of them died and the other remarried?
2007-09-03 03:07:34 · 4 answers · asked by Antares 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Since we retain our genders according to the Islamic belief, there is reason to believe that sexual intercourse will be there. Secondly, as for married couples, only God knows the answers to such detailed questions about the afterlife however what you should understand is that on the day of resurrection, it will be everyone for themselves. The acts of individuals will be judged so life in Heaven could be a new beginning. Imagine those couples who do spend their lives together but are unhappy with each other. They surely would not want to be together in the hereafter. The Islamic belief is that life is an individual endeavor so no one carries the burden of anyone else. Whenever asking a question such as this, understand that perfect knowledge is with God only and the FACT that human knowledge is very very limited is one of the basic principles of Islam. Understand that there are somethings which we'll never know in this life; humility is the beginning in this religion.
2007-09-03 03:15:22 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
To...OMAR::
1. Hoor mentioned in the Qur’an
The word hoor occurs in the Qur’an in no less than four different places:
(1) In Surah Dukhan chapter 44, verse 54
"Moreover, We shall join them to companions
With beautiful, big and lustrous eyes."
[Al-Qur’an 44:54]
(2) In Surah Al-Tur chapter 52 verse 20
"...And We shall join them to companions, with beautiful,
big and lustrous eyes."
[Al-Qur’an 52:20]
(3) In Surah Rahman chapter 55 verse 72
"Companions restrained (as to their glances), in goodly pavilions."
[Al-Qur’an 55:72]
(4) In Surah Al-Waqiah chapter 56 verse 22
"And (there will be) companions with beautiful, big and lustrous eyes."
[Al-Qur’an 56:22]
2. Hoor Translated as Beautiful Maidens
Many translators of the Qur’an have translated the word hoor as ‘beautiful maidens’ especially in the Urdu translations. If hoor means ‘beautiful maidens’ or girls, then they are meant only for the men. Hence, what will the women get if they enter Paradise?
3. Meaning of Hoor
The word hoor is actually the plural of ahwar (applicable to man) and of haura (applicable to woman) and signifies a person having eyes characterized by hauar a special quality bestowed upon a good soul, male or female in paradise and it denotes the intense whiteness of the white part of the spiritual eye.
The Qur’an describes in several other verses that in paradise you will have azwaj which mean a pair or spouse or companion which means you will have spouses or companions pure and holy (mutaharratun means pure, holy).
"But give glad tidings to those who believe and work righteousness, that their portion is gardens, beneath which rivers flow. Every time they are fed with fruits therefrom, they say: "Why, this is what we were fed with before", for they are given things in similitude; and they have therein companions pure (and holy); and they abide therein (forever)".
[Al-Qur’an 2:25]
"But those who believe and do deeds of righteousness, We shall soon admit to Gardens, with rivers flowing beneath – their eternal home; therein shall they have companions pure and holy: we shall admit them to shades, cool and ever deepening". [Al-Qur’an 4:57]
Therefore the word hoor has no specific gender. Mohammad Asad has translated the word hoor as spouse and Abdullah Yusuf Ali as companion. Therefore according to some scholars a man in paradise will have a hoor that is a beautiful maiden with beautiful big and lustrous eyes and a woman in paradise will get a man with beautiful big and lustrous eyes.
4. Women will get something exceptional in Paradise
Many scholars say that in context, the word hoor used in the Qur’an refers only to ladies since gents are addressed. A reply that would be accepted by all types of people would rather be the answer given in the Hadith when a similar question was posed that if a man gets a hoor, a beautiful Maiden in Paradise, then what will the women get? The reply was that the women will get that which the heart has not desired for, the ear hasn’t heard off and the eye hasn’t seen, indicating that even the women will get something exceptional in Paradise.
2007-09-04 07:32:15 · answer #2 · answered by afrasiyab k 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sex
that's nice concern
how god handles .....
would that be a question?
how can any one tells
but if some one was good.his deeds were good.and in heavens he got high place do you think god will let him down if he preys to god to have the company of his wife.remind you he might choose the 1st
or the second.or god knows his choices what ever it could be
he might ask hijaba between him and her
who knows
2007-09-03 17:44:26 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Here is a few verses, so I assume these virgins are to have sex with or what else is their use.
Hadith: Al hadiths, Vol. 4, Page-172, No.34: Hozrot Ali (r.a) narrated that the Apostle of Allah said, "There is in paradise an open market wherein there will be no buying or selling, but will consist of men and women. When a man desires a beauty, at once he will have intercourse with them as desired.
Quran-(52:17-20): "They will recline (with ease) on thrones arranged in ranks. And We shall marry them to Huris (fair females) with wide lovely eyes." "There they shall pass from hand to hand a (wine) cup, free from any Laghw-."
Quran: (37:40-48): -they will sit with bashful, dark-eyed virgins, as chaste as the sheltered eggs of ostriches.
Quran: (44:51-55): Yes and we shall wed them to dark-eyed houris (beautiful virgins).
Quran: (55:56-57): In them will be bashful virgins neither man nor Jinn will have touched before. Then which of the favours of your Lord will you deny?
Quran-(55:72): "Hur (beautiful, fair females) guarded in pavilions;"
2007-09-03 10:20:12 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋