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Full Idea
In fair gardens the righteous shall dwell in bliss, rejoicing in what their Lord will give them. They shall recline on couches ranged in rows. To dark-eyed houris We shall wed them.
Gist of Idea
The righteous shall dwell on couches in gardens, wedded to dark-eyed houris
Source
Mohammed (The Koran [c.622], Ch.52)
Book Ref
Mohammed: 'The Koran', ed/tr. Dawood,N.J. [Penguin 1968], p.115
A Reaction
What I find distressing about this is that we have gradually worked out how young men can recline on couches in gardens with dark-eyed houris before death, and the Koran seems to depict it as the highest form of living.
| 13 | Is the supreme reward for virtue to be drunk for eternity? [Plato] |
| 7908 | At the end of a saint, he is not located in space, but just ceases to be disturbed [Ashvaghosha] |
| 6820 | The righteous shall dwell on couches in gardens, wedded to dark-eyed houris [Mohammed] |
| 6812 | Heaven will be reclining on couches, eating fruit, attended by virgins [Mohammed] |
| 4412 | Those in bliss have their happiness increased by seeing the damned punished [Aquinas] |
| 7203 | In heaven all the interesting men are missing [Nietzsche] |
| 18318 | People who disparage actual life avenge themselves by imagining a better one [Nietzsche] |
| 18288 | Heaven was invented by the sick and the dying [Nietzsche] |
| 18306 | We don't want heaven; now that we are men, we want the kingdom of earth [Nietzsche] |
| 21520 | That our heaven is a dull place reflects the misery of excessive work in life [Russell] |
| 23063 | The first man obviously found paradise unendurable [Cioran] |
| 20699 | Paradise would not contain some virtues, such as courage [Davies,B] |
| 7356 | Pious Jews saw heaven as a vast library [Johnson,P] |