Posted on 09/06/2025 7:08:26 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Most in the West don’t know much about Islam, and what they know is often incorrect. But what about the 72 virgins?
Are they real? Do Muslim men believe that after death, they will be rewarded with 72 virgins? The question needs to be addressed, because it has been suggested that there was an incorrect translation, and the men are getting raisins, not virgins. And, perhaps out of envy or jealousy, some claim the virgins are old, ugly, and in constant PMS. So what’s the truth about the 72 virgins?
Muslims believe that after they die, they will be admitted into paradise, where the weather is never too hot or too cold. In paradise, there is an abundant supply of all kinds of food, as well as rivers of water, milk, wine, and honey. There is a marketplace where men can choose and enter the image of a handsome man, after which they will remain 30 to 33 years old. In paradise, there is no waste, such as urine; however, some believe that waste is secreted as sweat, which has a pleasant, musky odor. In paradise, men recline on jeweled couches, facing one another, while each is served by thousands of immortal boys.
The virgins (Hur, Houris, and Houri) are special creations for the men in paradise. They have white skin and beautiful eyes and are hairless except for their eyebrows and heads. They have fully rounded, pear-shaped breasts that don’t sag or hang. Every man will have between 72 and 100 virgins as wives. Men have sex 100 times a day; they are never exhausted, and sex doesn’t become boring or routine. After sex, the non-virgins become virgins again. The virgins desire only their husbands and are never annoying or ungrateful.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Although the verses about paradise and virgins are believed to have been revealed early in Muhammad’s prophecy, they had little impact on attracting followers. After 12 years of preaching, when he left Mecca for Medina in 622, Muhammad had between 80 and 200 followers. In Medina, conditions were initially so bleak that the survival of Islam was uncertain.
Then, just in time, Muhammad revealed new verses from the Quran that provided a way for his followers to attain paradise while they were still alive. These verses gave Muslims permission to loot, murder, rape, rob, and enslave non-Muslims.
Thus, rather than waiting to die, Muslim men could immediately reward themselves with loot and women. And, as a bonus for looting and raping, the Islamic god gave them a fast pass into paradise after death. Promising Muslim men loot and women proved to be an effective recruiting tactic, as eight years later, Muhammad left Medina with an army of 10,000 bandits and rapists to conquer Mecca.
The path to paradise differed during Muhammad’s life. Initially, when he needed large numbers of morally compromised, violent men to loot, rape, and force non-Muslims to submit to Islam, jihad was the only path. In fact, jihad was an obligation, and those who died without participating met the Islamic god with a religious imperfection or as a hypocrite.
There were concerns about whether women were allowed into paradise because of two consecutive verses in the Quran. The first says the men in paradise are married to virgins with “wide, lovely eyes.” The second says that in paradise, men are joined by their “believing offspring,” with no mention of their believing wives.
The absence of women in paradise is partly explained because they are overrepresented in hell, since they are less intelligent than men and they swear a lot. They are also annoying and ungrateful to their husbands, and a wife is forbidden from entering paradise if her husband is displeased with her.
Even if earthly wives were admitted to paradise, it doesn’t appear they were united with their husbands. The virgins told them that their husbands were only passing guests with them, and that after death, their husband would join his non-annoying, grateful virgin wives in paradise.
One of the few things Bill Maher got right was Mad Mo’s promises about the afterlife.
Mohammed invented that in order to recruit fighters for his jihads. He actually promised them a lot more, such as slaves and mansions in the afterlife, since slavery is pretty commonplace among Arabs. In addition to the 72 female virgins, he also said there would be 28 males for the more perverted followers.
Those mut be some real good raisins.
Mad Mo was nothing but a scam artist and fraud.
RE: he also said there would be 28 males for the more perverted followers.
I thought Islam executes homosexuals...
If they do, they have been mis-led.
They will get One(1) 72 Year Old Virgin. Enjoy!
Yes but they are virgin sheep.
Yes, officially homosexuality is illegal in Islam. But unofficially it’s rampant. It has a lot to do with plural marriages. The rich ones can have 100 of the best looking women as wives and the others get nothing.
Do mooselimb men believe this? Obviously some do....
Islam isn’t really a religion, it is a sex and death cult.
Thse “”’special, virgins.
Does it seem odd that they are called, “Hur, Houris, or Houri?”
This hits me as a word for WHORE!
How about you?
RE: Does it seem odd that they are called, “Hur, Houris, or Houri?” This hits me as a word for WHORE!
I asked Microsoft’s Chat LLM and here’s what it explains to me:
No, the English word “whore” was not derived from the Arabic word ḥūr (حُور) or its variants like ḥūrīya. Despite the phonetic similarity, the two words have entirely different origins, meanings, and cultural contexts.
🧠 Etymology of “Whore”
• The word “whore” comes from Old English hore, which traces back to Proto-Germanic hōran- and ultimately to the Proto-Indo-European root ka- meaning “to desire”.
• Cognates exist across Germanic languages:
• Old Norse: hora
• Dutch: hoer
• German: Hure
• Gothic: hors (adulterer)
It was used as early as the 12th century in English to describe a sexually promiscuous woman, and later broadened into a general insult.
🕌 Meaning of ḥūr in Arabic:
• ḥūr (حُور) refers to celestial companions in Paradise, described in the Qur’an as beings with beautiful eyes and purity.
• It has no sexual connotation in its original usage, and is often interpreted metaphorically or spiritually by scholars.
• The word entered European languages as “houri” in the 17th–18th centuries, but retained its religious and poetic associations.
🚫 No Linguistic Link
There is no historical or linguistic evidence that the English word “whore” was influenced by or derived from the Arabic ḥūr. The similarity in sound is purely coincidental. One stems from Indo-European roots of desire and moral judgment, the other from Arabic religious imagery of reward and purity.
You're the one who posted this article. It was very clear where it said:
"In paradise, men recline on jeweled couches, facing one another, while each is served by thousands of immortal boys."
Served equals serviced. They do this to each other's children in this life, which may help explain how they become so mentally screwed up. Well, that and generations of inbreeding. "Homosexuality is forbidden, but don't be a bad guest by turning down a little boy if offered."
So the insane reprobate used camel salesman, disappointed that his initial presentation wasn't selling, merely kept modifying the product where it appealed to the basest lows of human nature. He must have had quite the aura about him to convince people that his brand of barbarity would save their souls AND allow them to live like self-absorbed swine forever.
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It’s a translation error. What they actually get are the 72nd Company of the Army of Virginia.
“Ready, Aim, Fire!”
Wacko death cult.
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