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Jannah is exactly what I would expect a 7th century desert dweller to conjure up.Seems boring and hypocritical to me. Sure we all want to escape. But how biased and misogynist is Islam?! Are you denying that? The prizes that we get in heaven...you think a JUUST AND PROGRESSIVE GOD WOULD COME UP WITH THAT?? LOOL. It sounds more like the sexual fantasies of a 5th Century man. Please think about what you're saying and look at everything from the perspective of a man from the 5th century and it all makes sense.
All the water and greenery imagery in reference to paradise (gardens beneath which rivers flow). The emphasis on types of fruits and rivers of milk and honey, which were all understandably hot commodities in the harsh bedouin culture. The whole thing reads like a oasis mirage of a thirsting desert-dweller amid a never-ending landscape of sand dunes and the occasional date palm tree.
And why not insert countless virgins into such a place, imagination being the only form of human escape aside from outright death. Imagination, once upon a time, being the only form of sexual reverie.
The serving boys (not girls, not women, not men, but boys) who never grow up also having their purpose in early Arab culture where there was the element of sex with boys being for pleasure, and sex with women being for (more male) heirs, the houris and women in Jannah being perpetually sterile, thereby it not being inherently within their existence to question his masculinity with the pressure to produce young and virile heirs only for them to eventually topple him and take his place as he further loses his strength, and goes frail and dies as is the case with this grim earthly life. Which he won't be the case in Jannah, bc he's already done that (died that is, gained immortality (no more death), and been infinitely restored to the reasonable age of 33 years old).
There are no thoughts, no cares, no pressures, no hardships in this great after-life.