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What is the number of Houris allotted to each individual in Paradise, and is the cloud that rains down Houris for all levels of Paradise?

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The answer advises striving for obedience and righteousness to attain the bliss of Paradise, and clarifies that the number of wives a man will have in Paradise does not entail a ruling.

It explains that what is established in the sound Sunnah is that every man in Paradise will have two wives, and it is mentioned in some hadiths that these two wives will be from the houris.

It indicates that martyrs will be married to seventy houris, and that the lowest in rank among the people of Paradise will have seventy-two wives (two from the women of this world and seventy from the houris).

It also clarifies that what indicates every man having two wives is the minimum he will have, and there are other possibilities that increase the number.

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