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Will
Women Have “Companions” in Paradise?
Question of Fatwa:
Dear Sheikh! We always hear that men will have Hoor
Al-`Een in Paradise. What about women? Will
they have their own Hoor Al-`Een or what?
Answer:
In the Name of
Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
All thanks and praise are due to Allah and peace
and blessings be upon His Messenger.
Dear questioner, we would like to thank you for
your good question and we implore Almighty Allah
for His help in furnishing you with the best
answer.
In the very beginning, we would like to cite Ibn
Kathir’s comment on the issue of men having Hoor
Al-`Een. It reads:“ Almighty Allah tells us
that He will provide the residents of Paradise
with beautiful wives who have big and lustrous
eyes and 'whom no man or Jinn before them has
touched' and who are 'Like unto rubies and
coral'”.
In fact, Paradise is the abode of the believers in
the Hereafter. Allah has prepared for His
believing servants, males and females, in Paradise
indescribable bliss that which no eye has seen, no
ear has heard of and that has never ever crossed
the minds of people, to the extent that even the
person who has the least blessings in Paradise
will think that he is the most blessed one.
In more than one Qur'anic verse, Allah, Most High,
calls upon His servants to do their utmost in
order to be favored with Paradise. For example, He
says, "And vie one with another for
forgiveness from your Lord, and for a Paradise as
wide as are the heavens and the earth, prepared
for those who ward off (evil)." (Al `Imran:
133)
All this indicates that in Paradise believing men
and women will be showered with blessings; there
is no room for discrimination based on gender in
Paradise.
Focusing more on this issue, Sheikh `Atiyyah
Saqr, former Head of Al-Azhar Fatwa Committee,
adds:
“Here Allah mentions the Hoor Al`Een
because in most cases men pursue women and not
vice versa. As for women, Allah Almighty may marry
them to any of the believers in Paradise, if they
did not get married during worldly life, or He may
compensate them by making them feel content with
their position. It is also said that Allah may
grant women some kind of beauty with which they
will feel that they are better than the Hoor
Al-`Een and that they are their mistress, so
they will not love anyone other than their own
husbands nor will they feel jealous of the Hoor
Al-`Een.”
Source: http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503543756
Allah Almighty
knows best.
You
can also read:
The
Reward of Women in Paradise
Multiple
Wives in Paradise: What Is for Women?
Will
Women Have “Companions” in Paradise?
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