What women will get??

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AoA!

This post will give you an idea about a question that might have sprouted in your mind many times; but you just brushed it aside as there was no satisfactory answer available.

During my entire academic life so far; I have always remained a student who comes up with questions that gives jitters to all

I can clearly reminisce the day when i stunned my Islamiyat teacher that she couldn't stop grinning ;D

It goes like this:

While memorizing Surah Rehamn my hafiz saab told me about the hoors a man will get in Jannah . I didn't got the point as i thought of my mother; that what will happen to her?? if my father will go away with all those hoors

Being 7 years old then; i didn't had guts; either to question or to argue with him but the question kept tingling my mind until that very fortunate day

Fast forward 10 years....

Our Islamiyat teacher was teaching about the Jannah when boys went gaga over the hoors n all. Taking the advantage of situation I finally cracked it!

"That if men will get hoors in Jannah what women will get as their companions? And what will happen to our wives? What if they only wants to live with their husbands in the life hereafter and want no hoors with him? Like typical Pakistani women "

Her jaw dropped n she was like dumbfounded ; stoned and grinning ;D, then after a moment she sighed n said women will get pious man called kirmans. There was a loud uproar of laughs n witty comments the question got lost somewhere in that entire hullabaloo.

It confused me even more. I looked for Kirmans but didn’t found any clue. All I managed to find was the meaning of the word. It means a particular kind of Persian carpet. umm..all women will get in Jannah as companion is a carpet A BIG NO!!

All the frantic efforts proved to be futile in the end. I thought of kirmans; that how they would look like?? …Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Josh Duhamel, Daniel Radcliffe or Gerard Butler cos these were the personalities; girls usually go crazy about. Duh..!!..Nah pious men are not clean shave they wear long beards..lol =). And how come they ever commit garish and blatant sinful acts like all these people do?? All this really puzzled me until I came up with my conclusion.

Being a man myself I know how a man with good nature feels. He loves his wife to core. He wants her to be pious and devoted to him only. A true man protects his wife like a canopy and saves her from all odds of the world. In a nutshell he wants a hoor on earth. The Holy Quran confirms this trait of males.

Whom neither man nor Jinn has ever touched before.[55:56]

Similarly a man wants his wife to be pure, unseen and untouched.

I don’t know how we would feel in heaven; as upon asking from grandpa that “what if we get bored in Jannah?” he said “God will take boredom out of your system”. But right now I believe a man with true heart would want to stay with his better half forever. No doubt a man is lured by hoors to do good by divine authority; but would everyone be okay with polygamy??? And above all would you be able to connect emotionally with a strange hoor? Umm….Allah knows better

This is a mystery know best to Allah. But I firmly believe He is all just, kind and merciful. As a man in paradise will get whatever he wants; if I get there (Allah willing) I will ask God to give my only wife as my sole companion; with all her bad traits fixed up. I want her to be my hoor forever =).

Well; this was my ideology that I made up after thinking a lot. But I found the following article by a Muslima sis (May Allah be pleased with her) which proved to be very helpful in making up my mind. It has answered so many queries so beautifully and felicitously.

Hope all of you will enjoy reading =).

Wassalaamalikumwarahmatullahewabarakatuh.

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Asma writes:

Men get Hoor Al'Een in Jannah....But what about us women.......what do we get??!!

That is a question that we come across many times and actually, that is something a lot of us ask. In fact, just the other day, someone asked me the very same question.

To that sister and others who may have this question up their mind, I say....

My dear sister.....first of all Jannah and Jahannum (and Hoor Al'Een, for that matter) and all what happens in them are matters of the Hereafter. These are a part of the realm of the Unseen of which we have very limited perception. Such matters are beyond our understanding and cannot be known by reasoning and thinking and we have really no knowledge of these things except what the Quraan and the authentic Sunnah tell us.
All we do is to believe in such matters of the Unseen, while remembering that its realities are known only to Allaah.

And actually, one should not really get into the details or indulge in discussions of the matters of the unseen without knowledge, because there is really no benefit in that. Rather if such a question comes up, we should say Allaah knows best.
As Allaah says:
“And follow not (i.e., say not, or do not, or witness not) that of which you have no knowledge. Verily, the hearing, and the sight, and the heart of each of those ones will be questioned (by Allaah)” (Surah al-Isra’ :36)

And, dear sister, from whatever limited knowledge we do have about Jannah that Allaah and His Messenger (sal Allaahu Alayhi wa Sallam) have informed us, there are a few points that we, as believing women, should remember, when questions such as these pop up in our heads.

1. Allaah is Most-Just and the Most-Merciful
The first and foremost thing to remember is that this is Allaah, Rab ul Aalameen we are talking about here.
Subhaan Allaah.
Remember that He is ar-Rahmaan ar-Raheem, the One who is Just and there is no one more just than Him....
And He is the One who is Fair and there is no one who is more fair than Him!!

He will never ever let you down or be unfair to you. If He has promised the men of Jannah Hoor Al'Een, then surely He will give the believing women of Jannah something equally pleasing too. There is no way that He will favor the men over the women, aoodhu billaah. Subhaanahu wa Ta'ala.

"If any do deeds of righteousness, be they male or female, and have faith, they will enter Jannah, and not the least injustice will be done to them." (Surah an-Nisa:124)

2. Allaah created men and women differently
Another thing to remember is that what pleases women may be different from what pleases men. And everybody knows that. So wouldn't He, Who created us in the first place know that better than anybody else?

"Shall He who has created (all things) not know? He is the Subtle, the Aware." (Surah Mulk: 14)

So have this firm belief in Him, and have blind trust in Him, Subhaanahu Wa Ta'ala....He, who knows us women and our nature best and He, who will give the women of Jannah whatever will please her the best.

“Therein you shall have (all) that your inner-selves desire" (Surah Fussilat:31-32)

3. In Jannah the righteous woman will be married to her husband and she will be pleased with that
Allaah will marry the believing women to their husbands of the dunya if they were righteous and make them pleased with that. That IS what they would desire. They wouldn't want any one else.
And if a woman did not get married during her worldly life, or if her husband was not from the people of Jannah, then Allaah will marry her to one of the believing men in Jannah. The women will live with their husbands and children and families in their own realms in Paradise, and they will be so content with that.

"Gardens of perpetual bliss: they shall enter there, as well as the righteous among their fathers, their spouses, and their offspring." (Surah ar-Ra`d: 23)

"Enter the Garden, you and your wives, you will be made glad. There will be brought round for them trays of gold and goblets, and therein is all that the souls desire and eyes find sweet and you will stay there forever. This is the garden, which you are made to inherit because of what you used to do. Therein for you is fruit in plenty whence to eat." (Az-Zukhruf 43: 70-73)

Ibn Katheer said: “ they (the women of Jannah) lower their gaze and avoid looking at men other than their husbands, so they do not think that there is anything in Paradise that is more handsome than their husbands. This was stated by Ibn ‘Abbaas, Qataadah, ‘Ata’ al-Khuraasaani and Ibn Zayd. And it was narrated that one of them will say to her husband: By Allaah I do not think that there is anything in Paradise finer than you, or that there is anything in Paradise dearer to me than you; praise be to Allaah Who has made you for me and made me for you." (Tafseer al-Qur’aan al-‘Azeem).

4. In Jannah there will be no jealousy
Remember,my sister, that life in Jannah will be nothing like life here in this world. It is a different world that has nothing in common with this world except names only; the realities of things are completely different.
Pleasures and feelings that we experience here in this life will be experienced in a different and much better and purer way. We will eat and drink but there will be no filth or dirt. Our bodies will not excrete wastes nor will we grow old. And not only our physical bodies, but our psychology and nature will be different also.

“And We shall remove from their breasts any (mutual) hatred or sense of injury...." (Surah al-A’raaf:43)

The Prophet (sal Allaahu Alayhi wa Sallam) said: “The first group to enter Paradise will look like the moon when it is full. They will not spit or blow their noses or defecate therein. Their vessels and combs will be of gold and silver, their incense burners will be of aloeswood and their sweat will be musk. Each of them will have two wives, the marrow of whose calves will be visible from beneath the flesh because of their beauty. There will be no dissent or enmity among them and their hearts will be as one, and they will glorify Allaah morning and evening.” (al-Bukhaari, Muslim)

He also said: “they will not envy one another.” (Bukhaari)

So even if the men will have Hoor Al'Een, we will not be jealous. Yes, it seems hard at this time, but it is just as hard to imagine eating and drinking without any excretion, although it is surely true. So rest assured...there will be love and peace and no jealousy.
Besides, think about it....Isn't the One capable of making you the way you are in this world with all your jealousy and the other 'womanly' feelings, capable of making you without jealousy in the Hereafter??!! Of course He is!

Rejoice, O sister, the believing women will be better than the Hoor Al'Een

Yes that's right. Read the quote below, my sister, and rejoice!

"The situation of the believing woman in Jannah will be better than the situation of the hoor al-‘iyn; she will be higher in status and more beautiful. Several ahaadeeth and reports have been narrated concerning that, but none of them can be proven to be sound. But, if a righteous woman from among the people of this world enters Paradise, then she will do so as a reward for her righteous deeds and as a honor from Allaah to her for her religious commitment and righteousness. As for the hoori who is one of the delights of Paradise, she has only been created in Paradise for the sake of someone else, and has been made the reward for the believing man for his righteous deeds. There is a great difference between one who enters Paradise as a reward for her righteous deeds and the one who was created as a reward for one who did righteous deeds. The former is a queen and a princess, and the latter, no matter how beautiful she is, is undoubtedly lower in status than a queen, and she is subject to the command of her believing master for whom Allaah created her as a reward." (www.islamqa.com)

Shaykh Ibn ‘Uthaymeen said regarding this matter:
"It seems to me that the women of this world will be better than the hoor al-‘iyn, even in outward appearance, and Allaah knows best." (Fataawa Noor ‘ala al-Darb).

Logically speaking......Wouldn't you rather be beautiful??
When we look at ourselves and our nature, we realize Allaah's infinite Wisdom and Justice in the way He has created us. It is in our very nature that most of us women are generally pleased with and devoted to only one man.
Ask yourself this or any woman out there you know, this question and you would know what I mean. Ask them....
"What would you rather be......be extremely beautiful with one loving husband or be ordinary looking with several husbands??!!

I am sure there will not be very many women out there who would pick the second choice...!!!

We have no right to question to Allaah
Actually, if you think about it, we have no right to question Allaah in whatever He does, how He does it and when He does it. We should not question Allaah’s wisdom in making us in the nature we are now or in re-creating us in the nature we will have in the future. We know that He is generous and merciful, and we have to trust Him.
He is All-Wise, All-Knowing. He is the Just and He knows Best.

AND, for arguments sake, EVEN IF, in His Infinite Wisdom, Allaah chooses to give men Hoor Al'Een and the women absolutely nothing, so be it. Know firmly, in your heart and believe unshakably in your mind, that, this is what was better for you. Know that He will NEVER be unfair to you and He will give you ONLY and ONLY if He pleases. And He will withhold from you, ONLY and ONLY if you deserve it.
Where is our trust in the Almighty??

The real focus
Instead of worrying about what Allaah has promised men and competing with them, we should focus on how to serve Him and worship Him better. We should try to improve our relationship with Him so that we may hope for His generous reward and forgiveness, so that out of His Mercy, He may enter us in Jannah.
Think about it, sister, if we learn all the details of what life in Jannah will be like and what rewards women will get, but fail to worship and serve Him the way He and His Messenger have taught us to.... then our knowledge is pretty useless, isn't it...?

If you are among those women who leave this world having won the pleasure of Allaah, then good news to you, my sister. When you enter Jannah you will have delights and pleasures such as no eye has seen, no ear has heard and no mind has ever imagined. You will have all that you wish for in the best of ways. You will be more beautiful than you can ever imagine, with a status higher than you can ever conceive and happier than you have ever been, content with your husband and family. Everything that you will ask for will be granted, and everything that you long for, you will get. You will never find anything to upset or disturb you, or make you jealous for you will be in the care of the Most Generous, Most Merciful.
What more could you ask for....?

[Maria]

very nice article..jazakallah kher..

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The Prophet's (S.A.W) Love

Watch and you will be so moved

[sameen]

Being a lady, i hold no grudge against men getting their hoors!I just want Jannat!the place more amazing than my puny imagination..
we dont know exactly how things will be running in Jannat, we have just been told a rough sketch of what actually is Jannat..
so,really,as Asma implies, why waste time on these mundane petty things?? pehlay uss jagaa peh pohanch kar tou dikhao

[affinity]

Your thoughts turn into actions, actions turn into eternal deeds and then you get reward accordingly
thus
Positive thoughts + Good Deeds = Jannah

and Allah says:

"You will find Me as you think/imagine of Me"

all I know is that my Lord is all beneficent, merciful and loves his creation even more than the love of 70 mothers. Ever thought how affectionately He calls us 5 times a day?

Just imagine how much your mother cares for you?..The love of Allah..ahh..no one can even imagine even a tinge of it without loving and craving for it.

If you will ask your Lord to hold your hand for life and not let you astray from the righteous path He will never let you down.

So
Think before its too late; act before it gets over..!!!
May Allah give us all the strength to fight against the all odds & may we all get there.


P.S: ummm..btw it was not a case study/poll, just a query that might have bugged many
Cheers

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Stumbled upon this beautiful piece of information; which further clarifies many questions that remained unanswered.


But in this century of women, this question keeps coming up, even in the most conservative of circles. In several places in the Quran, where the blissful condition of the dwellers of paradise is described, mention is also made of houris. In Surah Al-Dukhan it is said, “We will pair them with large-eyed companions (44: 54).” In Surah Al-Tur, it is said, “They will be resting against pillows on couches arranged in rows. We will pair them up with beautiful companions with big, beautiful eyes (52:20).”

In Surah Al-Rehman, the Quran says, “The houris will be protected in tents, whom neither humans nor jinns have touched before (55: 72).”

According to Surah Al-Waqia among the blessings of paradise will be “…houris with beautiful eyes like hidden pearls” (56: 22).

In the same surah, the Quran goes on to describe the conditions for the righteous in paradise: “With companions most refined; Whom We have created in the best of form; We made them virgin; loving, well-matched; For those on the right” (56: 34-38). Even though the word ‘virgin’ is most frequently applied to women, according to the Concise Oxford Dictionary, it is applicable to both males and females.

In An Arabic-English Lexicon, Lane gives the definition of ‘hur’ or ‘hurun’, which is the plural form of haura, and can be both masculine as well as feminine. ‘Hawar’ means, “the intense whiteness of the white of the eye and intense blackness of the black of the eye, with intense whiteness or fairness of the rest of the person”. ‘Ahwariyyun’ means “a man, white or fair of the towns or villages”. The word ‘hawariyyun’ means, “those who whiten clothes etc. by washing and beating them”. Or, “one who is freed and cleared from every vice, fault or defect”, or, “a thing that is pure and unsullied”.

According to Maulana Umar Ahmed Usmani, it is a misconception that hurun means the females of paradise who will be reserved for good men. He says that ‘hur’ or ‘hurun’ is the plural of both ‘ahwaro’, which is the masculine form as well as ‘haurao’, which is feminine. It means both pure males and pure females. He says that basically the word ‘hurun’ means white.

‘Alhawarriyat’ means the women of the towns and cities who are comparatively fairer. The word ‘al-hawariyyun’ has also been used in the Quran to refer to the disciples of Jesus, who used to wash clothes white. By whiteness here is also meant the purity of their personalities or souls.

Another word in the Quran, which has been widely misinterpreted, especially in Urdu translations and commentaries, is ‘zauj’, whose plural is ‘azwaj’. In Arabic this word means “a pair” or “one of a pair”, or “a spouse” (36:36). In Urdu, this word has come to refer to wives only. Sometimes it can also mean “various kinds”, or “variety”. Since ‘zauj’ is also used to refer to the female partner, the wives of the Prophet (PBUH) are referred to as ‘Azwaj-i-Mutaharrat’, or pure companions.

In the Quran when mention is made of those who will go to paradise, it is stated, ‘Wa lahum fiha azwajum mutaharratun’ (2:25).

‘Hum’ is a masculine preposition, but this is used as a common gender and is the manner of address adopted throughout the Quran. It actually means, “And for them will be pure companions”. Pick up any Urdu translation of the Quran and you find something like, “And for them will be pure wives”, and sometimes, “pure women”, assuming that only men will go to paradise and be rewarded with pure and beautiful wives or women.

There is also the belief that good wives here will be transformed into the women of paradise for the benefit of good men. In the case of ‘zauj’, the word itself belongs to the group of words which come under the heading of ‘ghair zawil uqool’, meaning “those without intelligence”. For the plural of this group, the grammatical female form is used.

There are numerous examples in history and the Quran of women who will go to paradise. One example is that of Hazrat Aasiya, the wife of Pharaoh. She was an extremely pious woman and did not support her husband in his cruelty, false pride and shirk. When it became clear to him that she was a staunch believer in one God and would never accept him as her god, he punished and tortured her.

At this she prayed, “O my Lord, make for me a house near You in Paradise and save me from Pharaoh and his deeds and save me from the people who are unjust” (66: 11). At this God showed her her heavenly abode and she became blissful. One wonders what the reward for Bibi Aasiya would be: would she be turned into a houri for some man’s pleasure, or would she be rewarded with pure companions, just like the male dwellers of paradise?

Since loneliness is a blight and no one likes to be alone for a long period, those who are successful will be provided with companions for their eternal life in paradise. Thus houris and azwaj in the Quran refer to the pure, chaste and beautiful companions that both good men, as well as good women, will be rewarded with, without discrimination.

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