An Islamic woman who I'd known on IRC died of leukemia today, apparently.

It made me think...I'm unsure but I think I saw an Islamic heaven BST once on the way back from another retrieval.

It was a walled garden...granite walls.  It wasn't very wide, but was quite large length wise...it went back further than I could see.  There were a lot of ponds and the sounds of running water; in that sense it might have been similar to a Buddhist heaven except it was all done out of granite or onyx...black stone.

There was a lot of food of different kinds, arrayed around in different places, and the virgins were going from one person to the next, asking if there was anything they needed, or offering themselves physically as is described.  It was extremely corporeally oriented...if a person went in there and didn't know better, you could forget completely that you weren't in a physical place.

There was also a very large man on a throne or divan of some kind against the wall closest to me.  I'm unsure who this man was; I don't know if he was meant to be a representation of Allah, but I did get the feeling that he was the authority of the place.

I was standing outside the BST, looking in...but there were no doors, so I'm unsure how I was able to see inside...I think one of the walls simply became transparent to allow me to.

I'm unsure if this was an actual vision of a BST...but it was similar enough to what I've heard about Islamic heaven, anyway.  I certainly hope that if this Islamic girl did not get to F27, that she got there, anyway.  She could relax and wait for her parents there.  It was not an entirely unpleasant place; in fact, during the time when I saw it I wanted to explore further (altho only temporarily) but was told I was not allowed in; a Helper was apparently worried that if I went in I wouldn't come back out! *grin*

In all seriousness though, I couldn't imagine spending eternity there...I'd very much get bored, I think.

[Petrus:] "It was a walled garden...granite walls.  It wasn't very wide, but was quite large length wise...it went back further than I could see. "
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You perceived a long and relatively narrow realm that reminded you of a Muslim Heaven.  So I thought you might be interested in the parallels with Emanuel Swedenborg's more in depth astral visits to this Muslim realm.  He warns that these planes remind one of Heaven, but are in fact merely a prelude to the heavenly realms:

"The people who are in these instructional sites live in different places.  As individuals, they are inwardly in touch with the communities of Heaven they are headed for... When you look at these sites from Heaven, they look like a Heaven in lesser form...The breadth seems to be less than the length ("Heaven and Hell," #514)."  

ES's astral contacts with Muslims draw fire an all sides.  Psychologist Wilson Van Dusen is an ES devotee, but nevertheless takes offence at the large number of Muslims ES encounters in the Hells.   On the other hand, ES's Christian contemporaries take exception to the hopeful state that ES discovers for highly moral devout Muslims:

"Behind these [realms for spiritual non-Christians] are people who were devoted to Islam and had led a moral life in this world, acknowledged one God, and recognized the Lord [Jesus] as the essential prophet.  When they let go of Muhammad because he can do nothing for them, they turn to the Lord and worship Him, recognizing His divine nature; and then they receive instruction in the Christian religion ("Heaven and Hell," #514)."

"Not everyone is taught in the same way or by the same communities of Heaven...Muslims are taught by angels [=discarnate humans] who once adhered to that religion, but have turned to Christianity....The others, like the Muslims and non-Christians, are taught on the basis of doctrines suited to their grasp (#515-516)."

ES's direct experience of the postmortem fate of devout Muslims finds independent support in atheist Howard Storm's NDE.  The orthodox Christianity of ES's day considered him far too liberal in his optimistic vision of the fate of righteous non-Christians.  Of course, if you've read my own posts, you know I believe the Bible teaches that God's love never permanently abandons anyone after death.  

Don