They shall recline on couches lined with thick brocade, and within reach shall hang the fruits of both gardens. Which of your Lord’s blessing would you deny? Therein are bashful virgins whom neither man nor jinns will have touched before. Which of your Lord’s blessings would you deny? Virgins as fair as corals and rubies. Which of your Lord’s blessing would you deny? (Qur’an 55:54-59)

“Dark-eyed virgins, sheltered in their tents. Which of your Lord’s blessing would you deny? Whom neither man nor jinns will have touched before. Which of your Lord’s blessing would you deny?” (Qur’an 55:72-75)

The number seventy-two for the virgins of Paradise comes from this multiply-reported hadith: “None is made to enter Paradise by Allah Most High except Allah Most High shall marry him to seventy-two wives, two of them from the wide-eyed maidens of Paradise and seventy of them his inheritance from the People of Hellfire, not one of them but her attraction never lags nor his arousal ever wanes.” (Ibn Majah; Ibn Adi’s Kamil; al-Bayhaqi’s al-Ba’th wal-Nushur)

“‘The Dark-Eyed [Virgins] yearn for me’ – Martyrdom-death promoted to kids on PA TV children’s program,” by Nan Jacques Zilberdik and Itamar Marcus, Palestinian Media Watch, December 2, 2019: