Houri

The houris (Arabic حور, DMG Hur, [ mu ] f pl, .. .. Variants f sg and pl [ not in the Koran ] Arabic حورية, DMG ḥūrīya, pl ḥūrīyāt ) are in accordance with Islamic faith virgins (al- Hur, " the dazzling " ) in Paradise, which are added to the Blessed.

• Retrieved from " houris " the Qur'an speaks in only four verses of " big-eyed " in 44:54, 52:20, 56:22, without this attribute in 55:72.
• Without the designation " houris " he mentions " big-eyed " Paradise women in 37:48, the men " brunette " in 38:52, 78:33.
• From young women he speaks in 55:56.74 and 56:35 f ( but again without the designation " houris ").

The popular number 72 for the number of a man in Paradise beige discontinued houris is not in the Quran. She has a mystical / magical function and means about as much as " abundant ".

Houris are according to the description in the Qur'an of dazzling beauty ( 55:58: " like rubies and coral "; 56:23: " the same well-guarded pearls" ).

Interpretations

The descriptions of the houris in Quran have been provided and embellished over time from the traditional lore and exegesis with details. From the verse that says that they were still not deflowered by man of jinn, some commentators have concluded that the existence of two types of houris, from human nature and the nature of the jinn. On its breast two names were enrolled: one of the names of God and the name of their spouses. They themselves are named after the female form of the name of her husband. Again and again the young age is emphasized and continually renewed virginity. In its purity, the houri has neither menstrual cramps, human needs, nor the pain of labor, since she bears children.

The ideas regarding the life in the hereafter are very different in the different branches of Islam. This is true, and others, both for the houris ( in the Arabic language masculine! ), Which according to various directions with femininity have nothing to do, as well as for the so-called Gilman ( Ar. غلمان الجنة ), which are to be determined for pious women. Concerns about overly materialistic and sensual interpretations to the pleasures of paradise were expressed in Islamic history early on. The Shafi'i Koranexeget Al- Baidawi from the 13th century AD is of the opinion that the substances from which women or even food of Paradise exist, differ fundamentally from the respective earthly counterparts. A similar interpretation ( Islamic mystics ) represented by the Islamic philosophers and the Sufis, which give the specific information from the Koran an esoteric sense.

The writing under the pseudonym Christoph Luxenberg semitist goes in his book The Syro- Aramaic Reading of the Koran (see below) of an erroneous translation of the word "virgin " and translates this as " white, crystal clear grapes ": fruits, which in the conceptions of paradise of the Orient from time immemorial regarded as a symbol of good living and comfort.

Importance in the present

At present, the houris serve several times as a means to motivate young male Muslims for suicide attacks. For example, was the assassins of September 11 in the Spiritual Guide, which was found in their luggage, given the prospect that the gardens of paradise are already decorated for them and the houris they induce cried.