Islamic eschatology

Islam teaches that Jesus (Isa, in Arabic) was not the son of God, but he was a prophet. According to Islam Isa never died and he was not crucified; instead he was raised into heaven still physically alive, where he lives now. At the time appointed by Allah, Isa will physically return to the world, end all wars, and usher in an era of peace, a messianic era;.

The Islamic concept of the afterlife is physical; people are said to have bodies, and that they will experience material pleasures, including unlimited food, drink and sex. "Each time we sleep with a houri we find her virgin. Besides, the penis of the Elected never softens. The erection is eternal; the sensation that you feel each time you make love is utterly delicious and out of this world and were you to experience it in this world you would faint. Each chosen one [ie Muslim] will marry seventy houris, besides the women he married on earth, and all will have appetising vaginas." Al-Suyuti (d.1505)

According to traditional Muslim sources, male martyrs are expected to be rewared in paradise by Allah granting them 72 female virgins that they can have sex with every day; these virgins will miraculously have their hymens regrown the next day, so that the person can continually spend eternity having sex with women. In recent decades, this belief has been stressed by the Islamist movement (radical Islam), as a way to induce teenage males to become suicide bombers. The excessive stress on this belief is seen by moderate Muslims as a deviation from the traditional Muslim emphasis that it is only the five pillars of faith that bring one to Heaven.

On the other hand, other sources claim that men who die in Jihad get 70 virgins, not 72: see Five Pillars of Islam.

Those who do not merit Heaven are sentenced to eternal damnation in Hell.

The 72 virgins as a reward for Islamic martyrs. (http://www.guardian.co.uk/saturday_review/story/0,3605,631332,00)

Islamic prophecies about Jesus (http://www.islam.tc/prophecies/jesus)

See also: Eschatology, Islam