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This is a preview of subscription content, log in to check access. Google Scholar. Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion , trans. James Strachey New York: W. The same hadith is also quoted by Ibn Kathir died CE in his Koranic commentary Tafsir of Surah Al-Rahman 55 , verse "The Prophet Muhammad was heard saying: 'The smallest reward for the people of paradise is an abode where there are 80, servants and 72 wives, 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]'.
Modern apologists of Islam try to downplay the evident materialism and sexual implications of such descriptions, but, as the Encyclopaedia of Islam says, even orthodox Muslim theologians such as al Ghazali died CE and Al-Ash'ari died CE have "admitted sensual pleasures into paradise". The sensual pleasures are graphically elaborated by Al-Suyuti died , Koranic commentator and polymath. He wrote: "Each time we sleep with a houri we find her virgin. Besides, the penis of the Elected never softens.
The erection is eternal; the sensation that you feel each time you make love is utterly delicious and out of this world and were you to experience it in this world you would faint. Each chosen one [ie Muslim] will marry seventy [sic] houris, besides the women he married on earth, and all will have appetising vaginas. One of the reasons Nietzsche hated Christianity was that it "made something unclean out of sexuality", whereas Islam, many would argue, was sex-positive.
One cannot imagine any of the Church fathers writing ecstatically of heavenly sex as al-Suyuti did, with the possible exception of St Augustine before his conversion. But surely to call Islam sex-positive is to insult all Muslim women, for sex is seen entirely from the male point of view; women's sexuality is admitted but seen as something to be feared, repressed, and a work of the devil.
Scholars have long pointed out that these images are clearly drawn pictures and must have been inspired by the art of painting. While there are many reasons young Muslims sacrifice their lives -- including the honor and money bestowed onto their families after their death -- it is the martyr's afterlife that captures the imagination.
In the late s, Pakistani journalist Nasra Hassan interviewed nearly prospective bombers, their families, as well as their trainers, from within militant Palestinian camps.
In remarkable accounts, members of the Palestinian fundamentalist group Hamas described how potential bombers came to believe that paradise was on the "other side of the detonator. Candidates for martyrdom were told the first drop of blood shed by a martyr washes away their sins.
They could select 70 of their nearest and dearest to enter Heaven; and they would have at their disposal 72 houris, the beautiful virgins of paradise, Hassan recounted in the New Yorker. Indeed many of the statements written by suicide bombers before they died spoke of a painless death that offered the shortest path to such a Heaven. But Islamic law prohibits suicide and the killing of innocents, and many bodies, such as Saudi Arabia's Council of Senior Clerics, have said terror acts have no "religious grounds.
A sacred pillar of Islam is the jihad, or struggle. The greater part of the jihad is the struggle within the soul to fight the devil inside, experts say, while the lesser jihad is the fight against those who try to subjugate Muslims. In Saudi-born militant Osama bin Laden took the lesser struggle and declared a jihad on America, claiming Muslims were under attack. Suicide attacks were seen as the deadliest arsenal for this "Holy War", a weapon that could not only penetrate "enemy territory" and kill, but also instill fear, horror and revulsion.
Fundamentalist Islamic leaders justified such acts by saying those who were strapping bombs on their bellies, or flying planes into buildings were not committing suicide, but were chosen by Allah to commit "sacred explosions" and become shahids, or martyrs. In a bid to meet a growing call to arms, charismatic, but extremist, Islamic leaders began upping their recruitment efforts, very often honing in on religious schools, such as the madrassahs in Pakistan and pesantrens in Indonesia.
Terror group goes to school. The original [word] that was used in the Quran was the word for raisin, not virgin. Manji's views have been seen as controversial by mainstream Muslim scholars. She claims to be a progressive scholar, often lands in controversy for challenging mainstream views. Imagine the disappointment among those who held this belief for so long. Okay, let's let them daydream about virgins, that too Videos News India.
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