Recordings › What Islam says about '72 Virgins' in Paradise -Mufti Abu Layth · 8 Oct 2018 › Segment 1 of 1
Do Muslims really get 72 virgins in Paradise?
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machinesummary, machine-writtenThe number 72 or 73 has no basis and comes from a fabricated or very weak report that became an old wives' tale. The Quran does mention women and virgins in Paradise in modest terms, and some non-sahih reports speak of sexual relations there.
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Mufti Abu Layth turns to the question of the virgins of Paradise, which he says has many people worked up. He says there is no mention of the number 72 or 73 anywhere: he thinks it comes from some fabricated or extremely weak hadith and has circulated until it became an old wives' tale that everybody repeats, and he calls the number fake news. He then gives what he calls the other news: the Quran does mention women, and among what is mentioned are virgins, intimated in certain verses with an understanding of modesty. He adds that there are reports, again not sahih but quoted in much literature, that speak of sexual relations in Paradise, including one in which the Prophet is asked whether people will have intercourse in Paradise and answers with an expression meaning with great passion and force [?]. He closes with banter about his spilled tea and about men's imaginations running away with them.
Question as read aloud · questioner not identifiedDo Muslims get 72 or 73 virgins in Paradise?
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Mufti Abu Layth says there is no mention anywhere of a number of 72 or 73 virgins, which he thinks may come from a fabricated or extremely weak report, while the Quran does mention women and virgins in Paradise in modest terms and some non-sahih reports speak of sexual relations there.
“this number I don't know I think it comes in some fabricated or extremely weak hadith maybe and for some reason people have just circulated it”
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let's get on to this virgin question people so many people all worked up right first of all there is no mention of 73 this 72 actually I'd heard 72 to be fair but maybe 73 people say there is no such mention of this number anyway to start off with let's just get that out there this number I don't know I think it comes in some fabricated or extremely weak hadith maybe and for some reason people have just circulated it and circulated in it's become one of those
like an old wives tale like that it's just become so that everybody says 73 or 72 73 is the sex not to be mixed with sex which is what this topic is about this topic is not about this sex which is to do is hatred hatred hatred hatred this is to do with love hate love hate love so the question is this the 72 or
73 whatever is this number is inauthentic let's just put that out there there's no such thing people about this 72 73 however there is mention so that's the bad news people right what about the good news musty can I be your second oh can I be your second yeah scandal huh I can't handle the scandal people people can't handle me this is the thing you see this
insanity this level of craziness this local that is required to survive in this world so let's people the pink tea by the way you can't really see it the way it's with the camera and I can't if I tilt it that would just be like a moment hey people pink tea spilled all over myself right so now right till the number the bad news I don't know if it's bad news but the fake news people is the 70 to the 70 odd virgins this number is
fake news let me do one of those Trump poses that's fake news people write the the other news is there is mention of of of women there is don't worry people there is mention of of women and amongst them into what is mentioned is virgins in the Quran as in it gives that up car and it gives this kind of understanding of modesty and stuff like this
this is intimated in certain verses of the Quran so that is this so there is a and there are certain rewired once again not so sorry but that speak about sex in paradise and will they be sex it will be so what's the word what's that what's the how can we translate the the Arabic word that they says that they asked in this but this hadith isn't so sorry but it says that an after our national Phil Jenna will we be having sex in paradise and he says diamond diamond like hell yeah like
like with great passion and force and rigor and that's the the kind of connotations of of this hadith which is not that sahi but quoted once again in many literature and texts and and the imagination is like now going but people so these things are mentioned but at this stage right most of men now are not listening to anything else I'm saying they're just uh they're just kind of like
and they just what what are the channels are on at this time that's enough of Mufti Abu layth what are the channels are on let me have a bit of me time but right people so that's enough right that's enough that's enough of all this
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