John Keeney wrote:

Well, as much as I hate to break in to a good joke with facts,
there is some claim that it kind'f does amount to a typo.
The claim is that the reward is actually 72 "seeds of profound ideas",
the ancient word for this concept and "virgins" being written the same.
The modern written language having added a couple of little marks
to distinguish the two with the wrong "new version" having been kept.

Well you're no fun John!

Actually, it seems a lot of explanation of events in the Bible can
be fully or partially explained by mis-translations, so it shouldn't
be too surprising that this might hold true for the Koran as well.


SMH