Whats So good About 72 Virgins?
All those wonderfully informed scholars on the news channels are convinced that all the motivation for seeking martyrdom is 72 eternal virgins.
Now that seriously makes you wonder.
I mean, from a personal and entirely frivolous point of view, 72 eternal virgins sounds like some seriously hard work.
Just think about it.
You'd have to find 72 eternal father-in-laws to seek permission from.
There would be 72 eternal mother-in-laws, then there's the 72 eternal wedding nights with every single aunty that you have ever known parked outside your room door (while you ..erm ..get on with it..), making comments that you wouldn't think would be part of the aunty lexicon and generally eternally partying till very un-aunty hours of the morning.
Talk about performance pressure.
Then there's the 72 eternal virgins themselves. They'd better be an eternal Harrods to by the eternal blooming chocolates and flowers to deal with it.
And the rub of it is... you have to do it again.
Granted this would be in your own personal palace with all the abundance of the eternity...
but you have to do it again, 72 times.....
now if there were 72 slightly older women with a penchant for loft living and ..... we wont go there....
but at the end of it all.. at the rate this FB is going.. by the time I up sticks and the world breathes a long sigh of relief when i shuffle of it... in the unlikely event that I get to top level..it'll be 73 Virgins.....
Now that seriously makes you wonder.
I mean, from a personal and entirely frivolous point of view, 72 eternal virgins sounds like some seriously hard work.
Just think about it.
You'd have to find 72 eternal father-in-laws to seek permission from.
There would be 72 eternal mother-in-laws, then there's the 72 eternal wedding nights with every single aunty that you have ever known parked outside your room door (while you ..erm ..get on with it..), making comments that you wouldn't think would be part of the aunty lexicon and generally eternally partying till very un-aunty hours of the morning.
Talk about performance pressure.
Then there's the 72 eternal virgins themselves. They'd better be an eternal Harrods to by the eternal blooming chocolates and flowers to deal with it.
And the rub of it is... you have to do it again.
Granted this would be in your own personal palace with all the abundance of the eternity...
but you have to do it again, 72 times.....
now if there were 72 slightly older women with a penchant for loft living and ..... we wont go there....
but at the end of it all.. at the rate this FB is going.. by the time I up sticks and the world breathes a long sigh of relief when i shuffle of it... in the unlikely event that I get to top level..it'll be 73 Virgins.....
posted by D at 8:30 PM
6 Comments:
Let's just hope they don't use white sheets in Heavan!
Salaam
I stopped bothering with mwu a while back, but your blog is still nessescary reading.
Dawwud
I don't know, the thought of having 72 Houris treating me like the tastiest ice lolly brings at the very least a smile to my face
If it's 72 'eternal' virgins, would that mean that they'd return to virgin-status on the eternal morning after? Talk about Groundhog Day....
here's the funny thing: sex is a tabbo (atleast from the family background i came from in Pakistan), so really, as the westerners put the 72 virgins in a sexual perspective, I doubt it was meant to be that way.
Well - you'd do it again...
the cup in heaven never is empty. :)
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