#huris

Description via Smithsonian: “Set in a garden, the image depicts a group of angels, referred to as huris or paris in Persian, entertaining their queen by playing music, dancing, and serving food and wine. The drawing's lively mood echoes other Persian representations of outdoor banquets or bazm (a form of celebration with wine and music) ceremonies, with the exception that this fine drawing features heavenly creatures--a favorite subject matter in sixteenth-and seventeenth-century Iran and Turkey--instead of the princely figures seen in illustrations to lyrical poetry by Hafiz and Assar”

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Huris are dark-eyed, sensuous, and incredibly beautiful female angels in the Islamic tradition.  They provide pleasure to people who have earned eternal happiness by their good deeds on earth.  Every new arrival to Heaven is, as long as he merits it, provided with seventy-two huris who exist solely to satisfy his every desire.  The huris become virgins again at the end of every night.