What 's like to be gay and a Mlim

Contents:

• IS BEG GAY HARAM?
• CAN A MLIM BE GAY?
• IS HARAM TO BE GAY? SAME SEX RELATNSHIP ISLAM
• GAY HAREM
• WHAT DO ISLAM SAY ABOUT BEG GAY?
• IS BEG GAY HARAM?
• GAY PEOPLE ARE RECLAIMG AN ISLAMIC HERAGE

IS BEG GAY HARAM?

Sce the momento US Supreme Court cisn on June 26 legalizg same-sex marriage the US, Mlims worldwi have been batg the lg’s mers, wh the apparent nsequence of whether they as Mlims accept or disapprove of someone beg gay while pretendg to be a Mlim.

The Mlim world’s relig, legal, social, polil, and cultural histori have all shaped attus toward lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) persons and their experienc. The Quran never says that homosexualy is punished by ath, and morn historians believe that the Islamic Prophet Muhammad never outlawed gay relatnships.

On the other hand, some hadh llectns cricize gay and transgenr behavr, imposg the Islamic ath sentence on both active and receptive parti who participate male homosexual terurse.

CAN A MLIM BE GAY?

For the first century and a half of Islam’s early existence (7th century CE), there is snt evince of homosexual nduct Islamic civilizatns. Tradnal Islamic law prohibs homosexual activi, which n rult var penalti, cludg stong and the ath sentence, pendg on the se and legal school. Startg the 19th century, the global spread of Islamic fundamentalist movements such as Salafism and Wahhabism, and the fluence of the sexual notns and rtrictive norms prevalent Europe at the time fluenced public attus toward homosexualy the Mlim world: several Mlim-majory untri have retaed crimal penalti for homosexual acts mted unr European lonial le.

(the penalty for homosexual acts), Islamic jurists have creasgly looked to numero “more explic” hadhs for guidance on a suable punishment.

Although the two most well-known and thentic hadh llectns, Sahih al-Bhari, and Sahih Mlim, have no reports regardg homosexualy, the other nonil llectns clu a variety of nmnatns of this “crime. Homosexualy and lbianism e the breakup of the fay and lead people to give up their work and study bee they are preoccupied wh the perversns. They (gays and lbians) both go agast the natural disposn (frah) which Allah has created mankd – and also animals – whereby the male is cled towards the female, and vice versa.

IS HARAM TO BE GAY? SAME SEX RELATNSHIP ISLAM

For homosexualy volv numerable evil and harms, and the one to whom is done would be better off beg killed than havg this done to him, bee after that he will bee so evil and so rpt that there n be no hope of his beg reformed, and all good is lost for him, and he will no longer feel any shame before Allah or before His creatn. The crime of homosexualy is one of the greatt of crim, the worst of ss and the most abhorrent of eds, and Allah punished those who did a way that He did not punish other natns. “Bee the evil nsequenc of homosexualy are among the worst of evil nsequenc, so s punishment is one of the most severe of punishments this world and the Hereafter.

Abu Bakr al-Siddiq, ‘Ali ibn Abi Talib, Khalid ibn al-Walid, ‘Abd-Allah ibn al-Zubayr, ‘Abd-Allah ibn ‘Abbas, Malik, Ishaq ibn Rahawayh, Imam Ahmad acrdg to the more sound of the two reports om him and al-Shafi’i acrdg to one of his opns, were of the view that the punishment for homosexualy should be more severe than the punishment for za, and the punishment is executn all s, whether the person is married or not.

GAY HAREM

Al-Shafi`i, acrdg to the well-known view of his madhhab, and Imam Ahmad acrdg to the other report narrated om him, were of the view that the punishment for the homosexual should be the same as the punishment for the adulterer.

Imam Abu Hanifah was of the view that the punishment for the homosexual should be ls severe than the punishment for the adulterer, and is a punishment to be termed by the judge (ta’zir). Those who favoured the first view, who are the majory of the ummah – and more than one scholar narrated that there was nsens among the Companns on this pot – said that there is no s that brgs worse nsequenc than homosexualy, and they are send only to the evil nsequenc of ku, and they may be worse than the nsequenc of murr, as we shall see below sha Allah. E., that the evil nsequenc of homosexualy are worse than those of murr) is the fact that the se of murr, Allah giv the next of k the choice: if he wish he may have him executed and if he wish he may let him off, but He enjoed executg the homosexual as a hadd punishment, as the Companns of the Msenger of Allah were unanimoly agreed, and as is clearly dited by the Sunnah of the Msenger of Allah (peace and blsgs of Allah be upon him) and there is no evince to the ntrary; rather this is what his Companns and the Rightly-Guid Caliphs (may Allah be pleased wh them all) did.

‘Abd-Allah ibn ‘Abbas said: The hight pot the town should be found and the homosexual should be thrown head first om , then ston should be thrown at him. He cursed those who do a variety of major ss, but he did not curse any of them more than once, but he repeated the curse for the homosexual three tim.

WHAT DO ISLAM SAY ABOUT BEG GAY?

The Companns of the Msenger of Allah (peace and blsgs of Allah be upon him) agreed unanimoly that the homosexual is to be executed, and none of them differed ncerng that.

When Allah mentned za, He scribed as a “great s” (fahishah – fe) among other great ss, but when He mentned homosexualy, He lled “the worst s” (al-fahishah – fe). “Wh regard to homosexualy, some of the scholars said that the punishment for is the same as the punishment for za, and was said that is ls than that.

The were men who were "actg like women", so perhaps gay men whose sexual orientatn was seen as makg them "act like women" or transgenr people. Sce they didn't know what to do, 's clear that the Prophet pbuh had never punished someone for homosexualy or given an example for those panns to follow.

IS BEG GAY HARAM?

This nnectn between fahisha and fuq wh homosexualy is not clear om the Qur'an though, and the Qur'an simply do not make a nnectn between za and homosexualy. While the Qur'an spends most of s time discsns of relatnships discsg heterosexual relatnships, that do not meant that homosexualy is wrong. The Qur'an do discs people who are tersex (wh signs of beg both male and female) as well as the aforementned "men who have no need of women" (who may have been gay, transgenr, or asexual.

GAY PEOPLE ARE RECLAIMG AN ISLAMIC HERAGE

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