Re: anyone who can answer my question??
the answer is 18 husbands. How do I know?
simple math.
A man is allowed 4 wives. While a wife is allowed 1 Husband.
The ratio is four wives to a husband. or 4:1
if we raise wives to 72 then what do we get for husbands? or 72 : X
So you divide 72 by four and you get the answer this way ratio remains the same, percentage wise.
4 Wives : 1 Husband
This.
Seriously, the whole point of restraining ourselves in this world is so that we can get into Jannat. And once we get there, things will be as WE WISH. That’s the whole point of Jannat. I’m sure there are couples on this earth who would like to remain together even in Jannat. I believe 72 is just a metaphor and not to be taken literally.
Now, Allah says about jannah that it is something no eye has seen, and it never occurred to the human heart. So, when you look at the other descriptions of paradise in the Qur’an, you have to know that those are approximations. Do not think that Allah is describing physical types of things that we know of in this world. That is what Imam Al-Ghazali said, and that is what the 'ulama say. One of the things that some people are trying to use against Islam is that they say we envision paradise as being this type of sexual romp or something like that, which is a terrible thing. For the human being, the highest level of pleasure is in sexual relations, and therefore, it would be appropriate, according to what Imam Al-Ghazali says, to give some indication of the pleasures of paradise by talking about something that human beings know about, which is that experience, because the majority of human beings do not have intense mystical experiences in their life. There are mystics who do have these experiences that are very profound and intense, but most people do not. The most intense experience that they will have of pleasure is in this act, and when Allah describes the pleasures of paradise, He uses those examples because they are close to people’s understandings.
ALSO:
**What I said about hur al-'ain is that the 72 virgins is not mentioned in the Qur’an. I did say that you have to be very careful about literalism with the Qur’an. For example, the Qur’an says about Allah, “there is nothing like Allah,” and then what does Allah say after that? He says, “and He is the All-Hearing and the All-Knowing.” Well, how would you know what All-Hearing and All-Knowing is if you did not have hearing and knowing? Also, Allah sees, so how would you know what sight is if you did not have sight? Allah gave you sight, but is your sight like the sight of Allah? Absolutely not.
Both quotations are from Sheikh Hamza who seems to be a somewhat levelheaded Alim.