72 Houries Are Bodily Manifestations Of Men's Dark Fantasies

By Sumit Paul, New Age Islam 23 June 2023 The drivel about 72 Houries is an apologist's sophistry. 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 1111 CE) and Al-Ash'ari (died 935 CE) have "admitted sensual pleasures into paradise". The sensual pleasures are graphically elaborated by Al-Suyuti (died 1505), Quranic 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 [i.e. Muslim] will marry seventy [sic] Houries, besides the women he married on earth, and all will have appetising vaginas. Sleeping with gorgeous damsels, who don't fart, defecate and experience menses, is not just an average Muslim's fantasy, but a secret desire of all men with a wiener. Religions provide this phantasmagoria or the fantasy world where men can satiate their libido indefatigably. Not just Quran but the scriptures of Hinduism also graphically, nay erotically, describe the beauty of Apsaras like Menka, Rambha, Tilottama, Ghritachi, Urvashi among others who're eternally young (never exceeding the age of 25! So luscious, lascivious and voluptuous!). Remember, all religious books were written by men. Even if you assert that they were god's words, well, you thought of your god as a male. So, it's but obvious that a lot many things in these putrid books will always revolve around repressed sexuality and pander to a man's basic instincts. Women are a commodity whose only function is to make men (sexually) happy. This ingrained notion birthed the idea of Houries, Apsaras and heavenly consorts. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Also Read: The Hoor in Paradise and Their Attributes in the Quran and Ahadith in Response to Inquiries Following the Newly Released Movie 72 Hoorain --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- That such corporeal and extremely sexist thoughts in different religions and their books are still justified by 'learned' people and apologists is proof that believers can go to any length to defend their books, faith, god and religious tenets. What's all the more ludicrous is the assertion that these Houries will not be concubines but legal wives of a Momin in heaven! What about pious women? Won't they get well-hung studs as hubbies in heaven? Alack, poor women will have no choice. So sad! The same (monotonous) husband on earth will again be her husband in paradise! Doesn't she long for a different man, let alone, a gaggle of guys, just like her husband craves a bevy of sexy females? Who're we fooling? Who wrote this crap? Remember, all these Houries and Apsaras in an imaginary heaven are symbolical as well as bodily manifestations of men's embarrassingly dark fantasies that cannot easily be fulfilled on earth. Humans need to purge their faiths and books of this arrant nonsense and lustfulness. Quran, Puran, Hadees, Agamas, Pitakas, Gathas and all that jazz have put the mockers on the evolution of human civilization. Remove them to let the juggernaut of rationality march ahead. ---- A regular columnist for New Age Islam, Sumit Paul is a researcher in comparative religions, with special reference to Islam. He has contributed articles to the world's premier publications in several languages including Persian. URL: https://newageislam.com/spiritual-meditations/72-houries-manifestations-dark-fantasies/d/130058 New Age Islam, Islam Online, Islamic Website, African Muslim News, Arab World News, South Asia News, Indian Muslim News, World Muslim News, Women in Islam, Islamic Feminism, Arab Women, Women In Arab, Islamophobia in America, Muslim Women in West, Islam Women and Feminism