A painting I made earlier this year. It was a commentary on the incorrect popular impression in America that Muslims believe they will have forty virgins when they die. I haven't heard of this belief until I came to the states. So I imagined if I did get forty virgins after I die they would be American.The Painting is water color on paper.
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I like the painting a lot. So, what is the correct belief as to Muslim afterlife? I admit I don't understand it well. Of course, I don't understand Christian belief either!
I'm not a Muslim scholar, but the Quran talks about eternal peace in beautiful gardens with rivers of milk and wine. I think very similar to the bible version of heaven. Nowhere thou dose it promise forty virgins. It dose however talk about purified and virgin wifes but it could also be understand as husbands for women.
Sad the way religions argue with one another, or each wish to convert or conquer the other. The issue of whose god is really god, seems quite primitive to me. Did you see David Lynch's "Eraserhead"? The woman in the radiator sings: "In Heaven everything is fine. You go your way I'll go mine."
In Archibald MacLeash's play "JB" ( based on the biblical character of Job) he has another provocative line: "If God is God, he is not good. If God is good, he is not God"
Peace always! D.
I agree with you completely. I felt reluctant to answer your question in your first comment because it really doesn't matter what answer I give you because it's like answering some arbitrary question that you could never verify, at least in this life. I rally don't care what heaven is like. I am not a theologian even if I sound like one at times. All that matters to me concerning religion is I do my best and let everyone else do their best even if we disagree, I believe we could get along. But the thing about the forty virgin issue is a way of mockery and ridiculing someone else's faith. How is it of any body's concern what someone else believes?
Sorry if went on a tangent Dan. I'm really thankful to you for coming back to my blog and taking the time to comment.
I think of you as a brother, Salah. I am sure our lives have been very different, the ways we grew up, or try to. "All that matters to me concerning religion is I do my best and let everyone else do their best even if we disagree," That is the way I see it, too.
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