Muddled And Addled Theories
By Sumit
Paul, New Age Islam
30 August
2023
“The sexual
pleasures of Paradise mentioned in the verses of the Quran are a symbol of
spiritual connection rather than a sublimated version of the pleasures of
worldly sexuality. Even though what one experiences on earth is only a mirror
of paradise, one can only make allusions to paradise through the language of
the earthly sexual union since it is the purest and most potent form of
physical pleasure one may have on earth.”
Can you
make heads or tails of the aforementioned statement?
Sex is sex.
Adding spirituality to it makes it a guilt-ridden activity. Spirituality, like
love, is the most overused term. Let spirituality and sex remain separate. The
Quranic Houries are there for 'that' purpose only. Don't try to sugar-coat it.
Quran, like any other scripture, is a book of mundane temptations. Don't
glorify or sublimate them.
Jabalpur's
Mahesh Yogi tried to spiritualise sex in the US and ended up raping the
actress, Mia Farrow. Rajnish also did the same and relegated his spiritual and
meditation sessions to uninhibited orgies and debaucheries. By the way, Rajnish
was also from the same region, the exponent of transcendental meditation hailed
from. I'm talking about that fraud Mahesh Yogi.
What type of spiritual connexions the devout
Muslims will have with the luscious Houries? If they're not there for men's
sexual gratification, why did Allah create them? One gentleman writes that not
Houries, but the people in Jannah will have the company of a running stream.
Don't you get to see running streams on earth? Followers believe that heaven
will be full of exotic and exquisite things that aren't made available to
humans on earth by a sadistic and tantalizing Allah. They'll enjoy those things
when they go there.
Is a
running stream a rarity in this world? Who're you fooling, my dear? All these
misleading explanations are cover-ups. The apologists of all religions are the
most unscrupulous people. They resort to Naro wa Kunjaro wa (from
Mahabharat, when Yudhishthir confounded Dronacharya during the Battle of
Kurukshetra) or the Greek poetess Sappho's Enoma-Enona (literally, this
can be, that can be from her ' Fragments').
Quran's
Houries are offered by Allah (or Muhammad?) to pander to the basic human
instincts. Accept this unvarnished truth and stop advancing muddled and addled
theories.
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A regular columnist for New Age Islam, Sumit Paul
is a researcher in comparative religions, with special reference to Islam. He
has contributed articles to the world's premier publications in several
languages including Persian.
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