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Last Update: 01:45 GMT, Monday, Feb. 08, 2010
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| Name of Questioner |
Diana
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| Title: |
Heavenly Rewards For Pious Women? |
| Date |
24/Jul/2003 |
| Question |
Dear Scholars,
As-slaamu `alaikum, hope you all are well by the grace of Allah.
My question is:
What will the believing women get in Heaven? In Surah al-Rahman (no. 55) I found that Allah Almighty is telling about the special gifts for men like beautiful "hoors". Is there anything special for women?
My second question is about women martyr. We know there is the hadith:
“The martyr (shaheed) has seven blessings from Allah: he is forgiven from the moment his blood is first shed; he will be shown his place in Paradise; he will be spared the trial of the grave; and he will be secure on the Day of the Greatest Terror (the Day of Judgment); there will be placed on his head a crown of dignity, one ruby of which is better than this world and all that is in it; he will be married to seventy-two of hoor al-`ayn (most beautiful pure women); and he will be permitted to intercede for seventy of his relatives.”
Here our Prophet (pbuh) addressed the man only. Is there any hadith on women martyr? And what will they get?
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Islamic Creed, Women's life
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| Name of Counselor |
Amani Aboul Fadl Farag
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Salaam Dear Diana,
Mother of the believers, Um Salama had the same question about the equivalent
of hoor al-`ayn to women before you. She asked her question to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and he informed her that the woman's pious husband is going to be her husband in Paradise.
Then she asked him what if a woman has been married to more than one husband through out her life in this dunya (life)? He answered her that she will get the best – regarding piety and manners - amongst them to be her husband.
As for the pious woman herself, whether a martyr or good worshipper,
Allah will not make of her simply a hoor but she will be a mistress of all hoors. They will become maids to her. This means that she will be the most beautiful of them all and the most beloved by her husband among them.
I can read some questions already aroused in your mind!
Supposed a woman was not in love enough with her husband in this life and would not like to take him again! And… how come that a woman accepts to share her husband with all this number of hoors?
Actually, we have to realize that the dwellers of Paradise are not going to be ruled by the same nature of passion that used to rule them in this life. This is such as
hatred and jealousy. They will have a totally different psychology from that
they used to have in this life. It is the special psychological nature of the people of Paradise, which Allah has described in the Qur'an in Surah 43, verse 7. This is when He said the meaning of:
*{And we shall remove from heir hearts any rancor}*
Even if the husband was not appreciated by his pious wife in this life, Allah is capable of changing his negative nature so to please her in Paradise. In the same way he changes her into the most beautiful woman - while she was so not in this life - just to please him.
As for the second half of your question about rewards given to men martyrs alone, this is a common misunderstanding. A masculine pronoun does not only refer to men in the Arabic language. There is a linguistic rule that exists in both Arabic and English that a masculine pronoun in case of referential ambiguity - that is when the referred to person is not identified - refers to both men and women. The martyr here refers to both he and she martyrs. May Allah make us among them.
Thank you again and please keep in touch.
Salaam.
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