72 virgins

[Iam]

Can anybody claim to think it would be heaven to be "given" 72 purpose built automaton virgins who revert to virginhood after sex? Can any sane person possibly consider that heaven?
(I hope I haven't broken rules)

[10CC]

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Not until he had told him THREE TIMES to read, what was it gabriel was telling him to READ?

The circumstance is as follows:

Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) was illiterate. It was the habit of Muhammad (peace be upon him) to frequently remove himself and spend many days secluded in the cave of "Hiraa" in the mountains of Makkah where he would pray to God according to the religion of Abraham (peace be upon him). After many years of this, and having reached the age of forty, the angel Gabriel suddenly appeared before him and ordered him to "Iqra!" (read, recite, repeat, proclaim). Muhammad (peace be upon him), in his terror thought he was being asked to read, so he said: "I am unlettered." The angel Gabriel again ordered him to "Iqra!" Muhammad (peace be upon him) again replied: "I am unlettered." The angel Gabriel now took a firm hold of him and commanded him "Iqraa in the name of Allah who created!". Now Muhammad (peace be upon him) began to understand that he was not being asked to read, but to recite, to repeat. He began to repeat after him, and Gabriel revealed to him the first verses of the Qur'an, those at the beginning of the chapter of Al-Alak(96):

"Read(Iqraa): In the name of your Lord who created, Created man from a clot. Read(Iqraa): And your Lord is the Most Bounteous, Who teaches by the pen, Teaches man that which he knew not." 

Deflection? Is that the best you've got. I see you can't answer the question.

[HaLi8993]

@ 10CC

Deflection? Is that the best you've got. I see you can't answer the question.

Lol, the question has been answered, you obviously haven't understood or grasped what we are talking  about. What is it your having difficulty in understanding?? Its pretty straight forward. 

[Aetixintro]

To kill prejudgmentalism (against Islam), I think the best interpretation is that:

it's assumed that all people who get to Heaven achieve to meet again 71 (virgin-) friends and one (virgin-) wife/husband in the sense that all who get to Heaven are by premise innocent/virgin (after the purgatory).

[10CC]

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Not until he had told him THREE TIMES to read, what was it gabriel was telling him to READ?

The circumstance is as follows:

Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) was illiterate. It was the habit of Muhammad (peace be upon him) to frequently remove himself and spend many days secluded in the cave of "Hiraa" in the mountains of Makkah where he would pray to God according to the religion of Abraham (peace be upon him). After many years of this, and having reached the age of forty, the angel Gabriel suddenly appeared before him and ordered him to "Iqra!" (read, recite, repeat, proclaim). Muhammad (peace be upon him), in his terror thought he was being asked to read, so he said: "I am unlettered." The angel Gabriel again ordered him to "Iqra!" Muhammad (peace be upon him) again replied: "I am unlettered." The angel Gabriel now took a firm hold of him and commanded him "Iqraa in the name of Allah who created!". Now Muhammad (peace be upon him) began to understand that he was not being asked to read, but to recite, to repeat. He began to repeat after him, and Gabriel revealed to him the first verses of the Qur'an, those at the beginning of the chapter of Al-Alak(96):

"Read(Iqraa): In the name of your Lord who created, Created man from a clot. Read(Iqraa): And your Lord is the Most Bounteous, Who teaches by the pen, Teaches man that which he knew not." 

Now then when muhammad was praying to the god of abraham for the many years before gabes visit, how was he doing that? In the muslim fashion or the hebrew or the christian fashions? And how did he know of the worship practices of these religions if he was illiterate?

And of course he did not teach by the pen did he, I think your god tells lies.