Allah promises Paradise to those who follow the pillars of Islam and if he considers them good enough to enter. But according the Al-Quran there aren’t really any rewards for women once they get to Paradise. Yet men receive many rewards, including women.
Paradise According to the Al-Quran
Sura 56:23 describes Paradise as a place where men sit on couches eating fruit, with “maidens restraining their glances, untouched before them by any men…lovely as rubies.” This passage also states that the women are young and immortal. They give the men wine that doesn’t make them drunk. The women also give the men any food they want. Sura 78:32-33 says that the reward of the god-fearing man is a place of security, “gardens and vineyards and maidens … like of age.”
Paradise According to the Injil
The Injil’s description of Paradise is very different. Men and women receive the same rewards in Paradise. A big difference between Paradise in the Al-Quran and Paradise in the Injil is that according to the Injil, there is no sex in Paradise. The apostle Mark states, “When the dead rise, they will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven” (Injil, Mark 12:25). This verse is talking specifically about the end of time when the dead who believe in Isa are raised again. But in speaking about the resurrection, the verse is also talking about heaven.
Paradise is for Women
None of the rewards that a follower of Isa receives in Paradise are based on being a man or a woman. No one will have pain again (Revelation 21:4). No one will hunger or thirst (Revelation 7:16). We will be in the presence of God forever. We will worship around His throne with others from all over the world. “After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands. And they cried out in a loud voice: ‘Salvation belongs to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb.’” (Injil, Revelation 7:9 – 10).
Paradise is for women! It is not just for men! Women and men are equal in Paradise, receiving the same rewards as men. But, Paradise is only for those who follow Isa. He says, “Jesus answered, ‘I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me’” (Injil, John 14:6)
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Maria_Islamic says
25 October 2012 at 7:48 am`
In Islam, women will also enter into paradise. Paradise is for both men & women.
“Never will I allow to be lost the work of any of you, be he male or female” (3:195).
jasmin says
25 October 2012 at 11:17 pm~
Maria,
I understand that women will get into Paradise. But all of the rewards in Paradise are for men. The only reward women get in Paradise is getting in. After that, their life in Paradise doesn’t seem to much different than their life on earth.
On the other hand, the Injil teaches that men and women get the same rewards in Paradise. There is no difference between the two.
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29 October 2012 at 10:34 pm`
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Ho Theos says
30 January 2013 at 2:38 pm`
Paradise is for holy people. That idea comes from Muhammad.
jasmin says
16 May 2013 at 5:21 pm~
Ho Theos,
I must kindly disagree with you. Although Muhammad was wrong in the way he described Paradise, he was right when he said that Paradise is for holy people.
The Injil is very clear that only those who are made right with God, and therefore holy, will be able to go to Paradise. Romans 6:23 says, “The wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
umul- kulsum says
14 February 2013 at 1:00 pm`
1. What can a Muslim man do to show respect to his wife?
2. What can a Muslim woman do to show respect to her husband?
3. Who should thank who, the husband or the wife?
Women are even closer to paradise then men. As long as you take good care of yourself, get married, and follow your husband as Islam says, the Prophet Mohammed(SAW) says you have entered paradise, not you will enter paradise.
jasmin says
14 February 2013 at 9:27 pm~
Umul-kulsum,
The best place to go to answer all of your questions is Ephesians 5.
1. Husbands respect their wives by loving them and putting them above themselves.
Ephesians 5:25-33 says, “Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her …In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29 After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it, …’For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.’ …However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself…”
2. Wives love their husbands through submission.
Ephesians 5:22-24 says, “Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church,… Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.”
The verse says she is to submit “as to Christ” and Isa would never ask his followers to do something wrong.
3. The husband and the wife should do things for each other and thank each other.
Ephesians 5:21 says, “Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.”
jamal says
18 March 2013 at 9:15 pm`
There is a huge gap that Muslims should bridge to understand and convince our brothers from other monotheistic religions, to not misunderstand the right meaning of the Divine holy Quran.
Allah rewards both righteous men and women in paradise. They get and share the same reward. They will all have a common life, where the most important thing will be praising Allah and hoping to see his face, not just eating and enjoying their time.
jasmin says
17 May 2013 at 6:00 pm~
Jamal,
What is the same reward that both men and women receive? And if men and women are not equal even in heaven, then how do they share a common life?
Everything I have read in the Quran about Paradise gives different rewards and a different life to men and women. That seems to be the emphasis to me, not praising Allah.
In the Bible, though, the emphasis is definitely praising Allah. Every description of Paradise includes being around Allah’s throne praising and worshiping Him with people from all over the world, regardless of race, sex, or status.
Khan Sahab says
4 May 2013 at 5:28 pm`
Why are you Christians trying to find a place for women in the after life?
The matter should be a place for women in this life. Islam gives all types of values to women, i.e., honor, respect, hijab, etc.
But what does Christianity give? Nothing other than the freedom to have sex with any man she wants.
jason says
23 May 2013 at 5:26 pm*
Hi Khan Sahab:
Well, it depends what you class as values. Is a woman valued if she needs to get permission from her husband if she goes out of the house? Is she valued if she always has to become accompanied by a male family member? Is she valued if she is not allowed to drive a car? Is she valued if she is required to wear a burka or hijab? What if she doesn’t want to wear a hijab? Is she valued if her voice in a court of law is not equal to a male’s voice? Is she valued if divorce is the right of the husband and not the wife? Is she valued if the Qur’an permits her husband to beat her with a stick? Is she valued if she is never allowed out of the house at all (purdah in Pakistan)? Is she valued if her percentage of an inheritance is less than a male’s? Is she valued if she is always required to veil herself (Saudi Arabia) when outside the house? Does a woman feel valued when her husband brings a second, third, fourth wife into the home? Do women feel valued when little girls are forced to experience female genital mutilation?
Secondly, do all Muslims live according to the teaching of Islam? No! Do all “Christians” live according the teaching of Jesus? No!
No where does the Bible teach free sex? If you studied the Gospel and in fact the whole Bible you would see that free sex is absolutely forbidden.
As you would not equate the actions of a drunken Muslim with true Islam, I suggest that you do not equate the actions of a licentious Christian with the true teachings of Jesus and the Bible.
Finally, we must remember to precious and holy words of Jesus, “For even the Son of Man [Jesus] did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for man” (Mark 10:45). The reason Isa Al-Masih left heaven and came into the world was to save you and I from eternal punishment! We need to learn about Him!
Kind regards,
Jason Gilead
lubna says
11 May 2013 at 6:16 pm`
Well done, I really appreciate you.
According to the Injil, men and women are like angels in heaven. That’s not natural.
Man is created superior to the angels and present day Christianity decreases his honor in the heavens. That surely is not the right idea.
Now in the Qur’an, it is obvious that women feel comfort in living with and serving their husband in this world. The same will be the case in the hereafter. Their best reward is to be with their men and that is best suited to their nature.
So the concept of life in heaven that is given by the Qur’an for both men & women is absolutely natural.
jason says
23 May 2013 at 5:45 pm*
Dear Lubna,
Men and women are only like angels as to the idea of marriage. According to Jesus there will be no marriage in heaven.
The Bible teaches that men and women are superior to angels. Angles were made to serve God by serving humans. Humans were made to serve God directly. Humans are superior to angels.
It is clear that some (all) Muslim men are promised 70 virgins in heaven. Would you be happy to share your present husband with 70 virgins? Or would you be happy to share him with three other wives here on earth?
I believe some Muslim women are happy to share their husband with other wives and with heavenly virgins. But I think that the vast majority of the women, including Muslim women, in the world think of this as repugnant?
I end with two holy verses revealed by God to His apostles, “Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her . . . Husbands, . . . treat them (your wife) with respect . . . “ (Eph. 5:25, I Peter 3:7).
Wassalam!
Jason Gilead
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1 August 2013 at 11:41 pm`
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dicka says
12 January 2016 at 1:11 am`
In the Quran, it’s written clearly that men and women Muslims will enter paradise if they do good deeds, and they are not oppressed in the slightest (Qs 4:124).
It is precisely taught in the Gospel of the New Testament that Isa unfairly penalizes women. A woman who divorces her husband then she is an adulteress during his life.
Obviously this is injustice to women. Men who should be punished for arbitrarily disposing his wife.
aila says
18 January 2016 at 7:21 am~
Dicka,
Thanks for giving us your opinion. God doesn’t like divorce. If a woman and a husband come to God and want God to help them, God will help them. So divorce is not a good option. Then, the Injil taught that “Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate” (Injil, Mark 10:9). Yet, those who divorce their spouse and marry another spouse, they live in adultery (Injil, Mark 10:11-12).
watson says
15 January 2016 at 9:38 am`
Why is a muslim man allowed to have up to four wife, but a muslim woman is not allowed to have four husband. If it is necessary for men then it is necessary for women also. If it is wrong . Then it’s required to change the Quran as per modern situation.
aila says
18 January 2016 at 8:02 am~
Dear Watson,
Thanks for your comment. I also have the similar question: why is a Muslim man allowed to have four wives? Isn’t one wife enough? Isa Al-Masih taught that God joins a man and a woman to become one flesh (Injil. Matthew 10:8).
aila says
18 January 2016 at 8:03 am`
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