Editing LGBTQ people and Islam (section)

==== Cupbearers in paradise ====
Some Quranic verses describing the [[Jannah|Islamic paradise]] refer to perpetually youthful attendants which inhabit it, and they are described as both [[Slavery in Islam|male and female servants]]:<ref name="Rustomji 2017">{{cite book |author-last=Rustomji |author-first=Nerina |year=2017 |chapter=Beauty in the Garden: Aesthetics and the ''Wildān'', ''Ghilmān'', and ''Ḥūr'' |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5_MoDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA297 |editor1-last=Günther |editor1-first=Sebastian |editor2-last=Lawson |editor2-first=Todd |title=Roads to Paradise: Eschatology and Concepts of the Hereafter in Islam |location=[[Leiden]] and [[Boston]] |publisher=[[Brill Publishers]] |pages=297–307 |series=Islamic History and Civilization |volume=136 |doi=10.1163/9789004333154_014 |isbn=978-90-04-33315-4 |issn=0929-2403 |lccn=2016047258 |access-date=2021-12-01 |archive-date=2023-04-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230419034025/https://books.google.com/books?id=5_MoDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA297 |url-status=live }}</ref> the females are referred to as ''[[Houri|ḥūr]]'', whereas the males are referred to as ''[[Ghilman|ghilmān]]'', ''wildān'', and ''suqāh''.<ref name="Rustomji 2017"/> The slave boys are referred to in the Quran as "immortal boys" ({{qref|56|17}}, {{qref|76|19}}) or "young men" ({{qref|52|24}}) who serve [[Wine#Islam|wine]] and meals to the [[Blessing#Islam|blessed]].<ref name="Rustomji 2017"/> Although the ''[[tafsir]]'' literature does not interpret this as a homoerotic allusion, the connection was made in other literary genres, mostly humorously.<ref name=EoQ/> For example, the [[Abbasid Caliphate|Abbasid-era]] poet [[Abu Nuwas]] wrote:<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|encyclopedia=Homosexuality and Religion: An Encyclopedia|title=Islam|author=Elyse Semerdjian|page=132|editor=Jeffrey S. Siker|publisher=Greenwood Press|year=2007}}</ref>

{{blockquote|
A beautiful lad came carrying the wine <br />
With smooth hands and fingers dyed with henna <br />
And with long hair of golden curls around his cheeks ... <br />
I have a lad who is like the beautiful lads of paradise <br />
And his eyes are big and beautiful}}

Jurists of the [[Hanafi]] school took up the question seriously, considering, but ultimately rejecting the suggestion that homosexual pleasures were, like wine, forbidden in this world but enjoyed in the [[Afterlife#Islam|afterlife]].<ref name=EoQ/><ref name=iranica-law/> Ibn 'Âbidîn's Hâshiya refers to a debate among the scholars of Baghdad in the eleventh century, that some scholars argued in favor of that analogy.<ref>{{cite book |last= Lange|first= Christian|author-link= |date= 2016|title= Paradise and Hell in Islamic Traditions|url= |location= Cambridge United Kingdom|publisher= Cambridge University Press|page= |isbn=978-0-521-50637-3}}</ref>