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>>20475846
>Read the Quran to know about paradise

>There will circulate among them [servant] boys [especially] for them, as if they were pearls well-protected.
—Sura 52, verse 24
>There will circulate among them young boys made eternal.
—Sura 56, verse 17
>There will circulate among them young boys made eternal. When you see them, you would think them [as beautiful as] scattered pearls.
—Sura 76, verse 19

>The ability to witness the divine in creation has been one of the features that has often distinguished Sufis from non-Sufis. One of the most controversial manifestations of this was shahidbazi ("playing the witness"), which was a practice of gazing at the form of young males in order to witness the inner, divine presence. Since medieval times a Persian Sufi by the name of Awad al-Din Kirmani has been most commonly associated with shahid-bazi (especially during the sama-or the ritual of Sufi music and dance). The controversy relating to Kirmani seems to have focused on the homoerotic nature of shahid-bazi, yet a close examination of the texts reveal that the criticisms about Kirmani relate to a wide range of Sufi practices and doctrines. An investigation of the contexts of these criticisms indicate that thirteenth-fourteenth-century Sufism was diverse and fluid, and that the systematisation of Sufism into brotherhoods (ariqa) which was taking place in Kirmani's lifetime had not resulted in a bland conformity of faith and practice. .

>>14042569
the painting on the front is fucking amazing, even though it depicts an impossible situation