Huris
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From: Farhad Aghdasi
To: Farzin Aghdasi Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2002 9:13 AM Subject: húrís - mysteries of divine utterance Dear all, According to Islamic literature, húrís are virgin
maids of heaven: Then which of your
Lord's bounties will ye twain deny? There is a reference
to the "mysteries of divine utterance" in the Seven Valleys: Praise be to God Who
hath made being to come forth from nothingness; graven upon the tablet of man
the secrets of preexistence; taught him from the mysteries of divine
utterance that which he knew not; made him a Luminous Book unto those
who believed and surrendered themselves; caused him to witness the creation of
all things (Kullu Shay') in this black and ruinous age, and to speak forth from
the apex of eternity with a wondrous voice in the Excellent Temple [1]: to the
end that every man may testify, in himself, by himself, in the station of the
Manifestation of his Lord, that verily there is no God save Him, and that every
man may thereby win his way to the summit of realities, until none shall
contemplate anything whatsoever but that he shall see God therein. Warmest love, Farhad P.s. To my knowledge of Islam there are no male equivalent
of húrís in heaven!
Therein are maids of modest glances whom no man nor ginn has deflowered before.
(The Qur'an (E.H. Palmer tr), Sura 55 - The Merciful)
[1 The Manifestation.]
(Baha'u'llah, The Seven Valleys, p. 1)