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Don't forget they will get their 72 year old virgin or is that 72 virgins or 72 camels?

These Islamic terrorists make it so confusing.

there is no mention of 72 virgins, that is a myth/stereotype based on lies, borderline anti-Islamic.

Prophet Muhammad said, "A man was inflicted with wounds and he committed suicide, and so God said: My slave has caused death on himself hurriedly, so I forbid Paradise for him."

Suicide is a sin even in Islam

Doesn't grant 72 houri to suicides! Or has that part escaped you?

there is no mention of 72 virgins, that is a myth/stereotype based on lies, borderline anti-Islamic.

you are incorrect.you don't know,you are presenting myth/stereotype, fiction,as reality.

Prophet Muhammad said, "A man was inflicted with wounds and he committed suicide, and so God said: My slave has caused death on himself hurriedly, so I forbid Paradise for him."

you can not source that from a reliable hadith collection can you ?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2002/jan/12/books.guardianreview5

Article history

In August, 2001, the American television channel CBS aired an interview with a Hamas activist Muhammad Abu Wardeh, who recruited terrorists for suicide bombings in Israel. Abu Wardeh was quoted as saying: "I described to him how God would compensate the martyr for sacrificing his life for his land. If you become a martyr, God will give you 70 virgins, 70 wives and everlasting happiness." Wardeh was in fact shortchanging his recruits since the rewards in Paradise for martyrs was 72 virgins. But I am running ahead of things .

Since September 11, news stories have repeated the story of suicide bombers and their heavenly rewards, and equally Muslim scholars and Western apologists of Islam have repeated that suicide is forbidden in Islam. Suicide (qatlu nafsi-hi) is not referred to in the Koran but is indeed forbidden in the Traditions (Hadith in Arabic), which are the collected sayings and doings attributed to the Prophet and traced back to him through a series of putatively trustworthy witnesses. They include what was done in his presence that he did not forbid, and even the authoritative sayings and doings of his companions.

But the Hamas spokesman correctly uses the word martyr (shahid) and not suicide bomber, since those who blow themselves up almost daily in Israel and those who died on September 11 were dying in the noblest of all causes, Jihad, which is an incumbent religious duty, established in the Koran and in the Traditions as a divine institution, and enjoined for the purpose of advancing Islam. While suicide is forbidden, martyrdom is everywhere praised, welcomed, and urged: "By the Being in Whose Hand is my life, I love that I should be killed in the way of Allah; then I should be brought back to life and be killed again in His way..."; "The Prophet said, 'Nobody who enters Paradise will ever like to return to this world even if he were offered everything, except the martyr who will desire to return to this world and be killed 10 times for the sake of the great honour that has been bestowed upon him'." [Sahih Muslim, chapters 781, 782, The Merit of Jihad and the Merit of Martyrdom.]

What of the rewards in paradise? The Islamic paradise is described in great sensual detail in the Koran and the Traditions; for instance, Koran sura 56 verses 12 -40 ; sura 55 verses 54-56 ; sura 76 verses 12-22. I shall quote the celebrated Penguin translation by NJ Dawood of sura 56 verses 12- 39: "They shall recline on jewelled couches face to face, and there shall wait on them immortal youths with bowls and ewers and a cup of purest wine (that will neither pain their heads nor take away their reason); with fruits of their own choice and flesh of fowls that they relish. And theirs shall be the dark-eyed houris, chaste as hidden pearls: a guerdon for their deeds... We created the houris

Read a tafsir or Quranic commentary (56:36) then click next.

an indepth look at the Islamic concept of 72 virgins in the after life.With the corresponding text from a tafsir linked.

(And on couches, raised high.) meaning, high, soft and comfortable. Allah said,

[إِنَّآ أَنشَأْنَـهُنَّ إِنشَآءً - فَجَعَلْنَـهُنَّ أَبْكَـراً - عُرُباً أَتْرَاباً - لاًّصْحَـبِ الْيَمِينِ ]

(Verily, We have created them a special creation. And made them virgins.`Urub, Atrab. For those on the right.) The Ayat describe the women who will be on the beds and couches, but since mentioning the beds hints to them, they were not directly mentioned. For instance, Allah said that Sulayman said,

[إِذْ عُرِضَ عَلَيْهِ بِالْعَشِىِّ الصَّـفِنَـتُ الْجِيَادُ - فَقَالَ إِنِّى أَحْبَبْتُ حُبَّ الْخَيْرِ عَن ذِكْرِ رَبِى حَتَّى تَوَارَتْ بِالْحِجَابِ ]

(When there were displayed before him, in the afternoon, well-trained horses of the highest breed. He said, "I did love the good instead of remembering my Lord,'' till the time was over, and it had hidden in the veil (of night).) (38:31-32), "it'' (Tawarat) refers to the sun setting, according to the scholars of Tafsir. Al-Akhfash said that Ayah,

[إِنَّآ أَنشَأْنَـهُنَّ]

(Verily, We have created them), implied the maidens of Paradise although it did not mention them directly. Abu `Ubaydah said that they were mentioned before in Allah's statement,

[وَحُورٌ عِينٌ - كَأَمْثَـلِ اللُّؤْلُؤِ الْمَكْنُونِ ]

(And Hur (fair females) with wide lovely eyes. Like preserved pearls.) Therefore, Allah's statement,

[إِنَّآ أَنشَأْنَـهُنَّ]

(Verily, We have created them), meaning, in the other life, after they became old in this life, they were brought back while virgin, youthful, being delightfully passionate with their husbands, beautiful, kind and cheerful. Abu Dawud At-Tayalisi recorded that Anas said that the Messenger of Allah said,

«يُعْطَى الْمُؤْمِنُ فِي الْجَنَّةِ قُوَّةَ كَذَا وَكَذَا فِي النِّسَاء»

(In Paradise, the believer will be given such and such strength for women.) Anas said, "I asked, `O Allah's Messenger! Will one be able to do that' He said,

«يُعْطَى قُوَّةَ مِائَة»

(He will be given the strength of a hundred (men).)'' At-Tirmidhi also recorded it and said, "Sahih Gharib.'' Abu Al-Qasim At-Tabarani recorded that Abu Hurayrah said that the Messenger of Allah was asked, "O Allah's Messenger! Will we have sexual intercourse with our wives in Paradise'' He said,

«إِنَّ الرَّجُلَ لَيَصِلُ فِي الْيَوْمِ إِلَى مِائَةِ عَذْرَاء»

(The man will be able to have sexual intercourse with a hundred virgins in one day.)

http://www.qtafsir.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1655&Itemid=112

Doesn't grant 72 houri to suicides! Or has that part escaped you?

What does a Muslim have to do to get granted 72 houri?

Well, friend kpr 37, done your homework on this one I see! What about the women? What if anything besides being "houris" do the women get? :))

What if anything besides being "houris" do the women get? :))

they are made virgin again

kpr 37- Such a deal!! To the bomb business, sounds like this bomb was capable of incurring a lot of damage and death. Glad it was intercepted before it could do so. Sounds like the attacks against Israel are getting more sophisticated, as the threat of war seems more eminent.

Don't forget they will get their 72 year old virgin or is that 72 virgins or 72 camels?

I think they have a choice of receiving either one 72 year old virgin-- or 72 one year old virgins.

(Unless, of course, they run out!)

Hands up everyone who recognizes that cartoon...

Helen Thomas look alikes?

Giving them that would be "cruel and unusual punishment". (Probably also a violation of the Geneva Convention, among other things).

there is no mention of 72 virgins, that is a myth/stereotype based on lies, borderline anti-Islamic.

If that's the case-- then you should be telling it to all the morons who beleive it-- and blow themselves up with that misconception in mind.

Helen Thomas look alikes?

Oh my, lol, that's rich!

Doesn't grant 72 houri to suicides! Or has that part escaped you?

Suicide shmuicide . As long as they knock off a few infidels they're not concerned over the fine points .