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Homosexuality
Dr. M. Laiq
Ali Khan
Cities
of Sodom and Gomorrah are reminders of punishment suffered by the
people who committed homosexuality
In more than one
place in His majestic book, Allah has related the story of Lut (Lot).
Concerning their destruction, he says: "Then, when Our command
came to pass, We turned their city upside down and rained upon it
stones of baked clay, heaped layer upon layer, marked by your Lord.
And they (the stones of punishment) are never far from the wrong
doers!" (Hud 11: 82-83)
The last warning is
for the Muslim Ummah: If they indulge in the practice of
homosexuality, Allah's punishment is not far off. The Prophet (Pbuh)
cursed homosexuals by repeating three times: "Allah
has cursed anyone who does what Lut's people did." And he
said: "If you find any persons engaged in
homosexuality, kill both the active and the passive partner."
Ibn Abbas said: "Find the tallest building in the town and
throw the homosexual down from its roof, then stone him to
death".
This punishment is
based on the analogy of Allah's punishment of Lut's people. There is
consensus among Muslims that homosexuality is a major sin, which Allah
has prohibited in the following verses: "Of all creatures in
the world, do you approach males and leave those whom Allah created
for you as your mates? But, rather, you transgressors!"
(Al-Shu'araa 26: 165-166)
In another verse,
Allah says His prophet Lut [says]: "Truly, they were an evil
people, perverted!" (Al-Anbiya 21:84)
The name of this town
was Sodom, and its men practised sex with men in addition to many
other abominations.
Ibn Abbas describes
several traits related to what the people of Lut used to do. Some of
these are: Not covering the private parts in front of people of the
same sex; whistling with the fingers; opening the shirt to show the
chest; wearing long pants which drag the floor; and homosexual sex (or
lesbianism).
The Prophet (Pbuh)
said: "Lesbianism is zina between
women." Abu Hurairah reported Allah's Messenger (Pbuh)
said: "Four types of people awake under
Allah's anger and go to bed under Allah's displeasure."
Those who were listening asked: "Who are they, Messenger of
Allah?" He replied: "Men who imitate
women, women who imitate men, those who have sex with animals, and men
who have sex with men."
It is said that when
a man mounts a man, the Divine Throne shakes out of the fear of
Allah's wrath and the heavens tremble. Then
the angels start reciting, "Say: 'He is Allah, the One; Allah,
the self-sufficient. He does not beget nor is He begotten, and there
is none like Him" (Al-Ikhlaas 112) until his wrath subsides.
Among those whom
Allah will not look at on the Day of Resurrection, and to whom He will
say, "Enter the fire along with those who enter," the
Prophet (Pbuh) counted the following: The active
and the passive partners in homosexuality; the one who has sex with
animals; the one who is married to a woman and her daughter at the
same time; and the one who masturbates regularly, unless they repent
and reform.
The following are
also listed among the abominations of Lut's people: playing
backgammon; racing pigeons; holding fights between dogs, rams or
roosters; entering bathhouses naked; and cheating with weights and
measures.
Ibn Abbas said:
"If a homosexual dies without repentance, he is changed into a
pig in his grave." [Ibn Al-Jawzi]
The Prophet (Pbuh)
said: "Allah will not look at a man who has
intercourse with a man or a woman in the anus."
[Regarding] the
punishment inflicted on one who willingly makes himself a passive
partner in homosexuality, Khalid bin Walid once wrote to Abu Bakr that
in a certain place there was a man who invited other men to have sex
with him.
Abu Bakr then
consulted with the companions of the Prophet (Pbuh) about this. Ali
ibn Abi Talib said: "This is that sin which none but the people
of Lut have done, and Allah has informed us about how He punished
them. In my opinion, he should be killed." So Abu Bakr wrote to
Khalid, and Khalid killed him.
It is reported that
on one of his journeys Hazrat 'Isa (Jesus) saw a man being burned by
fire. He took some water to throw at him, but all of a sudden the fire
turned into a boy and the man turned into a fire. 'Isa was surprised
by this and said: "Lord, return them in the condition they were
in this world so that I may ask them about their situation."
Thereupon Allah revived them and they were a boy and a man. Isa asked
them: "What is the situation with you?"
The man replied:
"Spirit from Allah, while I was alive. I was passionately in love
with this boy and used to have sex with him. When I died and the boy
died, he became fire, which burns me. Then I take turn, and become
fire and burn him. Thus, we alternate, and this is our punishment
until the Day of Resurrection."
[Source: Islamic
Voice, August 2002]
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