For Mlims generally, as for nservative Christians, homosexual acts are sful. Christian gays and lbians have had to work hard for a measure of regnn among fellow-believers; their Mlim unterparts are jt begng that stggle.
Contents:
- GAYNS AND HOMOSEXUALY
- HOMOSEXUALY AND ISLAM: WHAT DO THE QUR’AN ACTUALLY SAY ABOUT GAY PEOPLE?
- WHAT DO ISLAM SAY ABOUT BEG GAY?
- WHAT DO THE KORAN SAY ABOUT BEG GAY?
GAYNS AND HOMOSEXUALY
Answered by Shaykh Gibril F Haddad Gayns and Homosexualy Answer: Wa `alaykum as-Salam: In Islam How do we look upon gays... what is the Islamic viewpot? do we rpect them for them beg gay bee they choose to be gay? The people of Sodom and Gomorrah were not held any rpect by God but rather were * what does the quran say about being gay *
While I am not entirely sure but if two gays fondle each other, that may clu kissg and other body parts, the punishment might be ls severe. 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.
HOMOSEXUALY AND ISLAM: WHAT DO THE QUR’AN ACTUALLY SAY ABOUT GAY PEOPLE?
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.
WHAT DO ISLAM SAY ABOUT BEG GAY?
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.
WHAT DO THE KORAN SAY ABOUT BEG GAY?
‘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. 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.