In all the Hoor debates, let's focus on they very purpose of using these kind of objectification of the women (or women form). Tabligh as its basic proselytizing approach uses positive psychology. There is quite systematic discouragement of using tales of hell and punishment and
rather to focus on the fruits born out of virtue in heaven. The motivation is totally fine. Life for the divine should be based on love and not fear. But what they do is that love for the divine (and ultimately humanity) is vulgarized as crass selfish materialism, as well as
utopian existence desired by the male gaze and patriarchy.

The explanation (in my experience) is given that people are simple (naive) and they have to be lured through these comforts to being good (i.e. pious). The result is that the whole of religious experience is produced
not only as infantilizing but also crassly transactional. This, obviously, is followed by emptying out religion and religious experience of any transcendental, spiritual or ethical content. Imagine, what Ibn Arabi, Rumi, Mansur, Bulleh Shah, Rehman Baba and countless other
masters, who have found elation in being one with God, would have made of this transactional, material, men's sexual gaze oriented concept of heaven? If you believe that their vision of heaven and religion is too elated for the commonfolk you are hollowing out the religious
experience. And this is what the Tablighi ideology and ideologues have been doing.
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