Assalamo Alaikum
Can you please tell me about the reality of Houris or maidens of
Is it also true that a martyr will marry seventy-two maidens
in the
Name Withheld
Answer:
Walekum Assalam WRWB!
May Allah increase your knowledge, Amen!
The Houris or maidens of
كذالك
وَ
زَوَّجنَاهُم
بِحُورٍ
عِينٍ
(Similarly, We have married them with
large lustrous- eyed hooris) (Ad-Dukhan 44: 54)
This word hoor is also used in (At-Toor 52: 20), (Ar-Rahman 55: 72), and (Al-Waqiah 56: 62).
The following Ahadith also talk about these maidens
in
Al-Mikdam in Tirmizi
Allah's Messenger (peace be upon him) said, "The martyr receives six good things from Allah: he is forgiven at the first shedding of his blood; he is shown his abode in Paradise; he is preserved from the punishment in the grave; he is kept safe from the greatest terror; he has placed on his head the crown of honor, a ruby of which is better than the world and what it contains; he is married to seventy-two wives of the maidens with large dark eyes; and is made intercessor for seventy of his relatives."
Muadh ibn Jabal in Abi
Dawood:
The Apostle of Allah (peace be upon him) said: if anyone suppresses anger when he is in a position to give vent to it, Allah, the Exalted, will call him on the Day of Resurrection over the heads of all creatures, and ask him to choose any of the bright and large eyed maidens he wishes.
Abdullah ibn Umar in Tirmizi:
The Prophet (peace be upon him) said, "Paradise is decorated for Ramadan from the beginning of the year till a following year, and when the first day of Ramadan comes, a wind under the throne blows some of the leaves of paradise on the maidens with large bright eyes, and they say, 'My Lord, appoint us husbands from among Thy servants, with whom we shall be happy and who will be happy with us."
Ali ibn Abi
Talib in Tirmizi:
Allah's Messenger (peace be upon him) said, in Paradise there is a meeting-place for the large-eyed maidens who will raise voices such as created beings have never heard and say, "We are the women who live for ever and do not pass away, we are the women in affluent circumstances who will not be destitute, we are the women who are pleased and not displeased. Blessed are those who belong to us and to whom we belong!"
Hope these will remove
your doubts.
Wassalam
Dr. Syed Hasanuddin
Ahmad