Time to explain it: yeah there's sexual partners in Islamic afterlife, but idk where they got the 72 number from, and "virgins" doesn't make sense Islamically speaking. if I remember correctly they're creatures that were created for that purpose and not people from life, they're also fully customizable, I don't want to get into an ethicality discussion about something in the afterlife because we're not in the afterlife and we kinda don't know if the afterlife is real. What matters is how it affects the thought process of who believe in it, and the conclusion that I and multiple people I've discussed it with reached is that it's a promise to keep Muslims away from sexually assaulting in war, a man who believes in afterlife where he'll have his sexual urges satisfied forever will not risk it to sexually assault a helpless person in a war, and I think we've seen how effective it was with Al Qassam on oct.7.
I always heard 72 virgins was a thing Hasan-i Sabbah and his followers made up. They'd get a recruit high and laid and when he woke up they'd tell him that it was a vision from Allah of a fraction of their rewards for martyrdom.
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Time to explain it: yeah there's sexual partners in Islamic afterlife, but idk where they got the 72 number from, and "virgins" doesn't make sense Islamically speaking. if I remember correctly they're creatures that were created for that purpose and not people from life, they're also fully customizable, I don't want to get into an ethicality discussion about something in the afterlife because we're not in the afterlife and we kinda don't know if the afterlife is real. What matters is how it affects the thought process of who believe in it, and the conclusion that I and multiple people I've discussed it with reached is that it's a promise to keep Muslims away from sexually assaulting in war, a man who believes in afterlife where he'll have his sexual urges satisfied forever will not risk it to sexually assault a helpless person in a war, and I think we've seen how effective it was with Al Qassam on oct.7.
Thanks for the context!
I always heard 72 virgins was a thing Hasan-i Sabbah and his followers made up. They'd get a recruit high and laid and when he woke up they'd tell him that it was a vision from Allah of a fraction of their rewards for martyrdom.