WAITING

WAITING FOR THE REDEMPTION OF OUR BODIES
Koran 55:70-77 "In each there shall be virgins chaste and fair... Dark eyed virgins sheltered in
their tents whom neither man nor Jin will have touched before..
In the Hadiths, Mohammed goes one step further and expands the promise of virgins to
include a free sex market where there is no limit of the number of sexual partners. Women and
young boys are on display as if in a fruit market where you can choose the desired ripeness.
Al Hadis, Vol. 4, p. 172, No. 34 Ali reported that the Apostle of Allah said, "There is in
Paradise a market wherein there will be no buying or selling, but will consist of men and
women. When a man desires a beauty, he will have intercourse with them."
Apparently Hadith extends it even to homosexuality.
But then Hadith is simply tradition and cannot be the norm. It is only folklore.
The idea presented in the Quran of Paradise is certainly one of sensual pleasures with human
bodies and material prosperity.
AHMADIYYA
According to the Ahmadiyya view, much of the imagery presented in the Qur'an regarding
heaven, but also hell, is in fact metaphorical. They propound the verse which describes,
according to them how the life to come after death is very different to the life here on earth.
The Quran says: “From bringing in your place others like you, and from developing you into a
form which at present you know not.”[Quran 56:62] According to Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, the
founder of Ahmadiyya sect in Islam, the soul will give birth to another rarer entity and will
resemble the life on this earth in the sense that this entity will bear a similar relationship to the
soul, as the soul bears relationship with the human existence on earth.
We will raise you into a form of which you have not the slightest knowledge. Surah Al-Waqiah (Ch. 56: V.62)
The human being not only has a body, but also has a 'spirit' given to him or her by God. The
spirit is the seed from which a higher form of life grows within man, higher than physical life,
just as the body has developed from a small 'seed'. Just as in the world around us higher
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