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Are Men Favored Over Women in Jannah?

24 October, 2021
Q We know that a man gets many wives and a woman only gets one husband. And everything a man gets a woman gets, except the fact that men are rewarded by having so many wives, but women only have one husband. Why are men favored over men in jannah?

Answer

In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful. 

All praise and thanks are due to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon His Messenger.


In this fatwa:

There is nothing in the sources to say that God discriminates women against men by favoring the latter over the other. For more, see the detailed answer below.


Responding to your question, Sheikh Ahmad Kutty, a senior lecturer and an Islamic scholar at the Islamic Institute of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, states:

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Men and women are equal in reward

There is nothing in the sources to say that God discriminates women against men by favoring the latter over the other. On the contrary, we know for a certain fact that men and women are judged justly and fairly; each person is rewarded or punished for their actions or transgressions.

We read in the Qur’an:

So their Lord responded to them: “I will never deny any of you—male or female—the reward of your deeds. Both are equal in reward.” (Aal `Imran 3:195)

And in another place, Allah says:

Women have rights similar to those of men equitably although men have a degree ˹of responsibility˺ above them. And Allah is Almighty, All-Wise.” (Al-Baqarah 2:228)

Here is an even more clear statement establishing partnership and male and female concept of equality envisaged by Islam; it is hard to find anything comparable in any other world scriptures:

Surely ˹for˺ Muslim men and women, believing men and women, devout men and women, truthful men and women, patient men and women, humble men and women, charitable men and women, fasting men and women, men and women who guard their chastity, and men and women who remember Allah often—for ˹all of˺ them Allah has prepared forgiveness and a great reward.” (Al-Ahzab 33:35)

Are men favored over men in the Jannah?

Now coming to what happens in the next world, we ought to assume that such expressions never be taken literally. It is a phase beyond anything we have experienced before. Even as a baby cannot fathom or think of what awaits them outside the narrow walls of the womb, we cannot fathom what awaits in the next world. It is something that defies imagination or beyond. It is utmost bliss. Everyone, men and women, will have all of their desires fulfilled.

Jannah is all about ultimate bliss

Jannah is all about ultimate and everlasting bliss that defies human imagination or articulation.

Reason can only deal with issues that fall within the narrow confines of senses. Therefore, all matters that relate to the unseen realities like heaven and hell are beyond rational cognition. Consequently, it is absurd to discuss them in the way you are approaching them.

I pray to Allah to give us the wisdom to recognize the limitations of human reason.

Almighty Allah knows best.