Riza i-Abbasi Two Lovers Painted ca. 1630 in the royal studio of Shah Abbas I  (1588–1629). Beautiful un-aging youths known as ghilman (sing: ghulam) are promised as attendants to the faithful in paradise, though the jurists (muftis) have concluded that sexual relations are not to be expected in the afterlife. New York. Click image to view a series of enlargements.