Answering to the doubts about Holy Qur'an's encouraging people to the animalistic pleasures in the heaven, With an emphasis on the doubts of sexual attraction in the Holy Quran

Document Type : Research Article

Authors

1 PhD student at Department of Islamic Mysticism, Higher Education Academy for Wisdom and Religious Studies, Al-Mustafa International University, Qom, Iran. Email:ar.ridwaan@gmail.com

2 Date of receiving: 1 February 2024, Date of approval: 28 February 2024. 1. Associate Professor at Department of Philosophy of Science in Faculty of Management, Science and Technology, Amirkabir University, Tehran, Iran.

3 Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Higher Education Academy for Wisdom and Religious Studies, Al-Mustafa International University, Qom, Iran

Abstract

One of the greatest doubts that the seculars and atheists make to the Muslims is that in the Holy Qur’an there are some verses about paradise that encourage people to animalistic pleasures especially sexual pleasures. Their aim is to belittle Islam and showing it as a religion devoid of human values. These people rely on to the interpretation of some  commentators and some distorted Narrations refer to blessings in the Paradise. Their hatred of Islam increases when they see the negative effects of this understanding. For example, some Jihadists are eager to die in order to reach to beautiful houris. In this research, we are going to show that this is not the only interpretation from the Paradise and its blessings. In this research, We used the descriptive analytical approach to clarify the matter. We must negate all negative aspects of this world from the afterworld because the Paradise is the land of peace, purity, and absence of impurities and wickedness. For understanding the true meaning of verses related to Paradise we must know some philosophical and gnostical premises about the true nature of this world and its  hierarchal levels. The findings are as the following: in the paradise we can not neglect from God and there is no animalistic pleasures such as indulging in animalistic desires; there is no evidence showing that in the Holy Quran sex is used as an incentive for going to Paradise and it is in the paradise that the true nature of humans will be revealed completely. Paradise is the final station of believers that the goal of their creation will be actualized.

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