Sex in different religions' heavens (not in Christianity)

[lpetrich]

That "72 virgins" bit is not in the Koran itself but in the Hadiths, a huge collection of sayings about Mohammed and his companions.  Houri mentions

The Sunni hadith scholar Tirmidhi quotes the prophet Muhammad as having said:

The smallest reward for the people of Heaven is an abode where there are eighty thousand servants and seventy-two houri, over which stands a dome decorated with pearls, aquamarine, and ruby, as wide as the distance from al-Jabiyyah to San'a.[51][52]

However, others object that the narration granting all men seventy-two wives has a weak chain of narrators.[53]

Another hadith, also in Jami` at-Tirmidhi and deemed "good and sound" (hasan sahih) gives this reward specifically for the martyr:

There are six things with Allah for the martyr. He is forgiven with the first flow of blood (he suffers), he is shown his place in Paradise, he is protected from punishment in the grave, secured from the greatest terror, the crown of dignity is placed upon his head—and its gems are better than the world and what is in it—he is married to seventy-two wives among the wide-eyed houris (Ar. اثْنَتَيْنِ وَسَبْعِينَ زَوْجَةً مِنَ الْحُورِ الْعِينِ) of Paradise, and he may intercede for seventy of his close relatives.[54]

Also in the Hadiths is when Mohammed married  Aisha. More specifically, Sahih al-Bukhari 7:62:64

Aisha's age at the time of her marriage is frequently mentioned in Islamic literature.[16] According to John Esposito, Aisha was married to Muhammad in Mecca in 624 CE, after Hegira to Medina and the Battle of Badr.[30] Several scholars interpret this to indicate that she reached puberty at this age,[15][16][31][32] although her age at the time is the subject of dispute. Al-Tabari says she was nine at the time her marriage was consummated.[33] Sahih al-Bukhari's hadith says "that the Prophet married her when she was six years old and he consummated his marriage when she was nine years old."[34] Other sources differ on the age of marriage, but agree that the marriage was not consummated at the time of the marriage contract.[35] All biographical information on Muhammad and his companions was first recorded over a century after his death,[36] but the ahadith[37] and sīra (traditional Islamic biographies of Muhammad) provide records of early Islam through an unbroken chain of transmission. Various ahadith stating that Aisha was either nine or ten at the time of her consummation come from collections with sahih status, meaning they are regarded as reputable by most Sunni Muslims.[34][38] Other traditional sources also mention Aisha's age. The sīra of Ibn Ishaq edited by Ibn Hisham states that she was nine or ten years old at the consummation.[39] The historian al-Tabari also states that she was nine.[40] Marriage at a young age was not unheard of at the time, and Aisha's marriage to Muhammad may have had a political connotation, as her father Abu Bakr was an influential man in the community.[41] Abu Bakr, on his part, may have sought to further the bond of kinship between Muhammad and himself by joining their families together in marriage via Aisha. Leila Ahmed notes that Aisha's betrothal and marriage to Muhammad are presented as ordinary in Islamic literature, and may indicate that it was not unusual for children to be married to their elders in that era.[42]

 

[DrZoidberg]

The main problem with the Quran is that it's in verse. So words are picked based on metre, rather than being the best terms. This adds a lot of vagueness to the Quran.

There's a couple of popular English translations of the Quran. You can buy Qurans with the top translations side-by-side. I read one of these. What's striking is how wildly different they are. My take from this is that the Quran is pretty much open to any interpretation.

When Arabs say that the Quran needs to be read in the original Arabic. I'm convinced that this is the reason. Rather than that Arabic being some magical language. You need to read it in the original to understand just how vague this book is. I think that's what they're saying without saying it straight out.

 

[Politesse]

The main problem with the Quran is that it's in verse. So words are picked based on metre, rather than being the best terms. This adds a lot of vagueness to the Quran.

LOL I will not be going to you for poetry reviews any time soon!