(July 8, 2023 at 8:01 pm)Bucky Ball Wrote:(July 8, 2023 at 7:01 pm)Angrboda Wrote: Okay. Followup question. Supposing I martyr myself without committing suicide, would I get male virgins, female virgins, or some of both?
Sorry, it's not virgins. It's a mistranslation of the word for grapes. Grapes in paradise.
"The Koran says martyrs going to heaven will get 'hur,' and the word was taken by early commentators to mean 'virgins,' hence those 72 consorts. But in Aramaic, hur meant 'white' and was commonly used to mean 'white grapes' ".
Please spare us your ignorace of Islam. The Qur'an doesn't say anywhere that martyrs specifically get the huris', it speaks of the huris' generally as all male believers who go to heaven get huris', the info specific to martyrs is a hadith of Muhammad pbuh, not a verse.
The Qur'an also made it clear that the huris' are highly attractive women, not grapes. Now go back to learning, please.
In general, men actively desire and seek women more than women seek men. That was certainly true in Arabia because men take the initiative when it comes to marriage. So it makes sense that the Qur'an doubles down on female houris instead of male partners, which certainly exist (even if the woman wasn't married) as no one is single in paradise.
