RE: Member Photos
January 14, 2016 at 8:49 pm
(This post was last modified: January 14, 2016 at 9:38 pm by Catholic_Lady.)
(January 14, 2016 at 8:42 pm)MysticKnight Wrote:(January 14, 2016 at 8:32 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Do you really believe that MK? I could have sworn another Muslim told me this whole thing about virgins in Heaven was a more extremist view, rather than a mainstream one.I would have to see what he has to say about all the verses in Quran regarding this. If it's the raisin interpretation...then I don't really appreciate that one and it has no basis. There are verses that mention pure wives (not houris, other virgins, so they all interpret each other).
These houris were chosen by God to not be tested in this world and are of high purity. So we have to do quite a bit to become deserving of them and they are not all the same rank like Angels are not the same rank and have different levels of purity intensity, so the higher the rank we get, the higher rank will the houris be. Not all humans who enter paradise will earn them from my understanding but rather the believers that follow the light of God and that of his guidance or the Guides will become worthy of them. The people who were neither on the straight path (or the people of the right hand) nor on the evil path, but God forgives them due to not having reached the power to reject or accept faith, I'm not sure if they get Houris or not.
Could it be possible to take an allegorical interpretation of this?
Perhaps it doesn't literally mean you'll be having sex with a bunch of virgins, but rather, simply means that you will find complete fulfillment and ecstasy simply by being so close to God?
(Also, are the women who die also promised a bunch of virgin men? Just curious.)
"Of course, everyone will claim they respect someone who tries to speak the truth, but in reality, this is a rare quality. Most respect those who speak truths they agree with, and their respect for the speaking only extends as far as their realm of personal agreement. It is less common, almost to the point of becoming a saintly virtue, that someone truly respects and loves the truth seeker, even when their conclusions differ wildly."
-walsh
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