Hoor in Islam
According to the Islamic concept, Hoors are women with beautiful eyes created as a reward for faithful Muslim believers in Paradise. The word is used four times in the Qur'an, where it is indirectly mentioned several more times. It is traditionally believed that Hoors are beautiful women promised as rewards to believing men, described in numerous hadiths and interpretations of the Quran. They are generally said to be made of saffron from foot to knee, musk from knee to breast, amber from breast to throat, and camphor from neck to head. Often working with the multiples of seven, traditionalists describe them as wearing seventy to seventy thousand gowns, through which even the marrow of their bones can be seen due to the delicacy of their flesh, reclining on seventy couches of red hyacinth. , and the like. Hurras do not sleep, do not get pregnant, do not menstruate, do not spit or blow their nose, and are never sick. Mention is made of the enhancement of the sexual process of those male believers for whose pleasure Hoor is made; The Qur'an makes it clear that Hoors are specially made as rewards for the men of the Muslim community who were faithful to Allah.
Description of Hoor in Islam
i. A Hoor is a most beautiful young woman with a transparent body. Her bone marrow is visible as inner lines of pearls and rubies. She looks like red wine in a white glass.
ii. She is of white color, and free from the routine physical disabilities of an ordinary woman such as menstruation, menopause, urinal, and oval discharge, childbearing, and related pollution.
iii. She is a woman characterized by modesty and flexing glances; she never looks at any man except her husband and feels grateful for being the wife of her husband.
iv. A Hoor is a young woman, free from odium and animosity. Also, she knows the meaning of love and has the ability to practice it.
v. A Hoor is an immortal woman, who does not age. She speaks softly and does not raise her voice at her man; she is permanently reconciled with him. Being brought up in luxury, she is a luxury in himself.
vi. A Hoor is a girl of tender age, having large rising breasts which are round, and not inclined to dangle.
vii. Hoor dwells in palaces of splendid surroundings. If a Hoor looks down from her abode in Heaven onto the earth, the whole distance shall be filled with light and fragrance.
viii. A houri’s face is more radiant than a mirror and one can see one’s image in her cheek. The marrow of her shins is visible to the eyes.
ix. Every man who enters Paradise shall be given a minimum of seventy-two Hoors; no matter at what age he had died, when he enters Paradise, He will be thirty years old and age no more/increase.
x. Their glances, with big eyes (Of wonder and beauty)
xi. When a man turns his face away from her, she will become 70 times more beautiful in his eyes
xii. If she was to spit in the salty water of the seven oceans, then all the seven oceans would turn sweeter than honey.
Men will get 'Hoor' in paradise, women what will do?
Men will get 70 Hoors in Paradise. But what is there for women? In most cases, the answer to this question is that the woman will find her (worldly) husband.
70 Hoors for men and husbands of the world for women. Less was given to women. The bigger question is, how will a woman accept that her husband is going to 70 people? Women are the most deprived in the world. Will they be deprived of paradise?
The word Hoor is the plural form of the word 'howra'. Hawrah is a feminine word in Arabic. Which means female companion. The plural of a feminine singular can never be both genders. Rather, the plural of feminine singular is also feminine.
Therefore, the word Hoor means not just companion more than else. Which can be used for both men and women.
Rather, the word Hoor means many wives. Allah Ta'ala has given the adjective Maksurat in the 72nd verse of Surah Ar-Rahman. This word is also a feminine plural.
And in Arabic, adjectives are used according to the gender of the noun. As such, Hoor is a feminine word.
Moreover, all the details that Allah has given in the Holy Qur'an about the physical appearance of Hoor, do not apply to the appearance of men. All those details are beautiful for women's figures. For example, 'I made them (Hoor) virgins, sohagini, peers. ’ (Surah Waqiya: 36-37)
'For the Muttakis there is a success, gardens, grapes, and girls of the same age with swollen breasts. ’ (Surah An-Naba: 31-33)
According to the mentioned verse, it can be said that in the Holy Qur'an, when describing the reward of the people who will get paradise, the women who are like human beings will be women of paradise. It goes without saying that from a healthy, clean, and decent sense of taste since Hoor will be the women of Paradise, only the men who will receive Paradise will receive them as a reward.
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Now the question is, the resurrection in the afterlife will not be only for the soul. Rather, the resurrection will be of the soul and the body. Only human souls will not enter Paradise. Rather, his body will enter Paradise along with his soul. For the satisfaction of the body, food is needed, and sexual intercourse is also needed. This applies to women as well as to men in Paradise. And the women who will go to paradise will get paradise as a reward after passing the test of faith and deeds like men. They will enter Paradise by fulfilling all the responsibilities that Allah has assigned to them in the life of this world. In that case, the men will enter Paradise and get Hur. But what will women get?
The answer to this question is not clearly mentioned anywhere in the Quran and Hadith. However, those women who will enter Paradise in the Hereafter due to faith and good deeds will not be deceived. They will not suffer any kind of deprivation, they will not face any kind of injustice - that is a certain and certain fact.
Because, referring to the principle of the reward of Paradise, Allah Almighty said, "There is for you whatever your heart desires and whatever you ask for." These will be received as hospitality from the Forgiving, the Most Merciful. ’ (Surah Ha Mim Sijda: 31)
'There is whatever the mind desires and whatever the eye pleases. You will be there forever. (Sura Az-Zukhruf: 71)
It is unequivocally proved from the mentioned verses that all women will gain the great fortune of entering Paradise; None of their wishes or desires will remain unfulfilled there. Whatever they desire there, whatever they request - the merciful Lord will satisfy them with that, satisfy their eyes.
But we do not know what women will want after entering heaven. It is not possible to imagine what a woman will desire from her Lord in the distant future in a completely different new environment.
This time, the new question is, as men's achievement is said in detail, why is women's achievement not so detailed? This is probably because men in the world are quite open about sex. But women are naturally conservative-minded and quite shy. Women would have felt extremely ashamed or embarrassed if the women's achievements were discussed in such detail as the discussion of men's achievements is detailed in the Qur'an. Maybe Allah Ta'ala did not want to shame women in front of the world, did not want to put them in an embarrassing situation in front of everyone so He carefully avoided the detailed discussion of women's achievements.
However, Surah Ha-Mim Sijdar 31 and Surah Zukhruf verse 71 has confirmed women's attainment of their will.
In this context, another important matter should be mentioned. Sexual satisfaction is not the main attainment of paradise. Rather, it is a much later matter in the unimaginable vast blessings of Paradise. Allah Ta'ala did not discuss Hoor at the beginning of the discussions of Jannah. Rather, he first discussed the lush green environment and nature of Paradise, the discussion of beautiful reservoirs, waterfalls, fountains, and the discussion of breathtakingly beautiful palaces.
Therefore, it is the duty of people to devote themselves to righteous deeds with faith, not because of the greed of any Hoor, and not because of despair because of not getting Hoor - but in the hope of getting the pleasure of Allah.
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