Maidens of Paradise

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Maidens of Paradise are the pure, beautiful companions promised to the righteous in Islamic descriptions of the afterlife.

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Maidens of Paradise canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Islamic eschatological concept
religious belief
alsoKnownAs Houris
Hūr
associatedConcept bliss of Paradise
marital companionship in the afterlife
associatedWith Paradise
afterlife
eschatology in Islam
characteristic beauty
chastity
freedom from bodily impurity
immortality
purity
youth
contrastedWith punishments of Hell
culturalImpact frequent theme in Islamic poetry
frequent theme in popular preaching
describedIn Hadith literature
Quran
surface form: Qur’an
discussedIn Islamic creed manuals
Islamic mystical literature
tafsir (Qur’anic exegesis)
iconography not depicted in orthodox Islamic art
interpretedAs literal companions in Paradise
symbolic representation of reward
linguisticOrigin Arabic term ḥūr or ḥūr ʿīn
mentionedIn Qur’an 44:54
Qur’an 52:20
Qur’an 55:56
Qur’an 55:72
Qur’an 56:22
moralFunction encouragement toward piety
reminder of the afterlife
perceivedAs divine favor
promisedTo believers
inhabitants of Paradise
righteous
relatedTo Islamic concept of Jannah
rewards for martyrdom in some traditions
religion Islam
roleInDoctrine reward for the righteous
statusInBelief unseen (ghayb) reality in Islamic theology
subjectOf Islamic theological debate
modern scholarly interpretation
viewedBy classical Muslim exegetes

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Surah Ar-Rahman mentions Maidens of Paradise