Monday, October 28, 2013

Fathwa, - Status of women in Paradise

Question
I am married with a very smart lady who converted to Islam a year ago.
She has done her master's in computer science when she was 17. She
usually has many intelligent questions. Some of them I answer, the
other I cannot because of my lack of Islamic knowledge. Recently, She
has asked these questions below. Could you please answer them for us?
1( Is it true that man get 70 women when they go to heaven? If so what
is the source of this information? What do women get? 2( If a man
divorces several times and marries divorced women, which family would
he find in heaven third first, second wife? 3( Are man rewarded more
than women in heaven?
Answer
Praise be to Allah, the Lord of the Worlds; and may His blessings and
peace be upon our Prophet Muhammad and upon all his Family and
Companions. We do not know any evidence proving that a person may
marry seventy women in Paradise. This is reported only about the
martyrs who are killed in the way of Allah.
ImamsAhmadandal-Tabranireported that the Prophet )Sallallahu Alaihi wa
Sallam( said:A martyr gets seven blessings, among them he mentioned:
'he will marry seventy-two Houris. ]Ibn Hajargraded it Hasan[ As for
the women in Paradise, she will get one husband and she will not see
anyone better than him. She will be satisfied with him and will never
turn to anyone else. Allah Says )interpretation of meaning(: }Wherein
both will be those )maidens( restraining their glances upon their
husbands, whom no man or jinn yatmithhunna )has opened their hymens
with sexual intercourse( before them.{]55:56[. A person will not marry
the women he had divorced in his life in Paradise because they are no
longer his wives. But a person will marry his wife, who dies before
him, or he dies before her but did not marry again. The Prophet
)Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam( said:any woman whose husband dies
leaving her and she marries after him will be for her last husband.
]al-Tabrani,al-Albanigraded it sound in his book )al-Silsila
al-Sahiha([. If a person marries women who were divorced. If he does
not divorce them in his life, or they do not marry again after his
death, then they will be with him in Paradise. No doubt, a man will
get more than one wife in Paradise as mentioned in many texts, but at
the same time we should know that Allah will never be unjust. He will
grant other kinds of His Great blessings to women that they will never
feel any shortage or sorrow. Allah has emphasized this fact in many
verses. Allah Says )interpretation of meaning(: }Whoever works
righteousness, whether male or female, while he )or she( is a true
believer )of Islâmic Monotheism( verily, to him We will give a good
life )in this world with respect, contentment and lawful provision(,
and We shall pay them certainly a reward in proportion to the best of
what they used to do )i.e. Paradise in the Hereafter(.{]16:97[. Allah
knows best.

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