BorealLOVE, SEX AND ISLAMSex in the HereafterSmellYou will be able to smell Paradise from quite a distance. In the following hadith, “a distance of forty years” is assumed to be the distance traveled on camelback during that time. Narrated Abdullah bin Amr: The Prophet said, "Whoever killed a person having a treaty with the Muslims, shall not smell the smell of Paradise though its smell is perceived from a distance of forty years." Bukhari 53.391 The third holiest site in Islam is a rock beneath the Dome of the Rock, part of the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex on Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Muslims believe this is the rock from which Muhammad ascended to Heaven one magical night in 621 on the back of a winged-horse named Al-Buraq (also spelled al-Burak) to meet with the Boss. It was during this meeting with God to negotiate the number of prayers a believer (Sunni) must perform every day that Muhammad first noticed that the ground he walked on secreted musk, the main ingredient of his favourite perfume. Narrated Abu Dhar: Then Gabriel took me till we reached Sidrat-il-Muntaha (Lote tree of; the utmost boundary [of Paradise]) which was shrouded in colors, indescribable. Then I was admitted into Paradise where I found small (tents or) walls (made) of pearls and its earth was of musk. Bukhari 6.345 Its pungent smell will be everywhere, especially if you visit Muhammad at his private river retreat in Paradise. Narrated Anas bin Malik: The Prophet said: "While I was walking in Paradise (on the night of Mi'raj), I saw a river, on the two banks of which there were tents made of hollow pearls. I asked, ‘What is this, O Gabriel?' He said, 'That is the Kauthar which Your Lord has given to you.' Behold! Its scent or its mud was sharp smelling musk!" Bukhari 76.583 The smell of musk will not only emanate from the soil, but from the sweat generated from the eating of spicy foods common in regional Middle Eastern cuisine (the prevalent cuisine of Paradise) and from the perspiration of billions of humongous men sweating bullets during the sustained vigorous ploughing of their houris. Narrated Abu Huraira: Allah's Apostle said, "The first group of people who will enter Paradise, will be glittering like the full moon and those who will follow them, will glitter like the most brilliant star in the sky. They will not urinate, relieve nature, spit, or have any nasal secretions. Their combs will be of gold, and their sweat will smell like musk. The aloe wood will be used in their centers. Their wives will be houris. All of them will look alike and will resemble their father Adam (in stature), sixty cubits tall." Bukhari 55.544 Whether a houri sweats during a spirited sexual workout with a man who can literally keep it up (pun intended) forever is a matter for scholars. Even a wounded warrior’s blood will smell like musk. Narrated Abu Huraira: The Prophet said, "A wound which a Muslim receives in Allah's cause will appear on the Day of Resurrection as it was at the time of infliction; blood will be flowing from the wound and its color will be that of the blood but will smell like musk." Bukhari 4:238 Why God did not heal him when He put him back together to judge him is a mystery. Narrated Abu Huraira: The Prophet said, "Between the two blowing of the trumpet there will be forty." The people said, "O Abu Huraira! Forty days?" I refused to reply. They said, "Forty years?" I refused to reply and added: "Everything of the human body will decay except the coccyx bone (of the tail) and from that bone Allah will reconstruct the whole body." Bukhari 60.338 If God’s spokesman ever performed cunnilingus on any of his wives, concubines, or slave-girls shortly after their periods, he probably breathed in his favourite aroma. Narrated Aisha: A woman asked the Prophet about the bath which is take[n] after finishing from the menses. The Prophet told her what to do and said, "Purify yourself with a piece of cloth scented with musk." The woman asked, "How shall I purify myself with it?" He said, "Subhan Allah (Glorious is God)! Purify yourself (with it)." I pulled her to myself and said, "Rub the place soiled with blood with it." Bukhari 6.311 Believing women, for whom Muhammad's instructions are not to be taken lightly even today, will repeatedly rub their "privates parts" with "a cloth perfumed with musk" following the end of their menses. Narrated Aisha: An Ansari woman asked the Prophet how to take a bath after finishing from the menses. He replied, "Take a piece a cloth perfumed with musk and clean the private parts with it thrice." The Prophet felt shy and turned his face. So I pulled her to me and told her what the Prophet meant. Bukhari 6.312 This pervasive musky odour will mask the sweetest smell of all, that of the woman herself. What houris might smell like, I haven’t a clue, but if I had to guess…? Musk is not on the list of fragrances that research has shown have the greatest impact on a man’s sexual performance. The combined odor of lavender and pumpkin pie had the greatest effect, increasing median penile-blood flow by 40%. Second in effectiveness was the combination of black licorice and doughnut, which increased the median penile-blood flow 31.5%. The combined odors of pumpkin pie and doughnut was third, with a 20% increase. Least stimulating was cranberry, which increased penile blood flow by 2%… Psychology Today: The Science of Sex and Smell, October 2019. Musk is not even in the top ten fragrances women and men rated as having the properties of an aphrodisiac, which are as follows: pumpkin, lavender, vanilla, strawberry, jasmine, ginger, black licorice, cinnamon, doughnut and pink grapefruit. Then again, men with permanent erections won’t require an aphrodisiac to be turned on and neither will their houris; it’s their default (and only) state. It may be too much trouble for a god who likes to keep things simple to supply something normally not found on a desert oasis in the Arabian dessert, such as doughnuts, to make the sexual experience slightly more pleasurable for the paucity of real women He will allow into his Paradise. Musk—in moderation—is a lovely fragrance, but is that the only scent you want to tickle your nose for an eternity, whether you’re simply lounging or enjoying the women, real and fake, that God has put at your beck and call?
|