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What of the rewards in paradise? The Islamic paradise is described in great sensual detail in the Koran and the Traditions for instance, Koran sura 56 verses 12 -40 sura 55 verses 54-56 sura 76 verses 12-22.

While suicide is forbidden, martyrdom is everywhere praised, welcomed, and urged: 'By the Being in Whose Hand is my life, I love that I should be killed in the way of Allah then I should be brought back to life and be killed again in His way.' 'The Prophet said, 'Nobody who enters Paradise will ever like to return to this world even if he were offered everything, except the martyr who will desire to return to this world and be killed 10 times for the sake of the great honour that has been bestowed upon him'.' They include what was done in his presence that he did not forbid, and even the authoritative sayings and doings of his companions.īut the Hamas spokesman correctly uses the word martyr (shahid) and not suicide bomber, since those who blow themselves up almost daily in Israel and those who died on September 11 were dying in the noblest of all causes, Jihad, which is an incumbent religious duty, established in the Koran and in the Traditions as a divine institution, and enjoined for the purpose of advancing Islam.

#Oops all raisins series#

Suicide (qatlu nafsi-hi) is not referred to in the Koran but is indeed forbidden in the Traditions (Hadith in Arabic), which are the collected sayings and doings attributed to the Prophet and traced back to him through a series of putatively trustworthy witnesses. Since September 11, news stories have repeated the story of suicide bombers and their heavenly rewards, and equally Muslim scholars and Western apologists of Islam have repeated that suicide is forbidden in Islam.

If you become a martyr, God will give you 70 virgins, 70 wives and everlasting happiness.' Wardeh was in fact shortchanging his recruits since the rewards in Paradise for martyrs was 72 virgins.

Abu Wardeh was quoted as saying: 'I described to him how God would compensate the martyr for sacrificing his life for his land. In August, 2001, the American television channel CBS aired an interview with a Hamas activist Muhammad Abu Wardeh, who recruited terrorists for suicide bombings in Israel.