What is the meaning of homosexual?
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What is homosexual
In the name of Allah, We praise Him, seek His
help and ask for His forgiveness. Whoever Allah guides none can misguide,
and whoever He allows to fall astray, none can guide them aright. We bear
witness that there is none worthy of worship but Allah Alone, and we bear
witness that Muhammad (saws) is His slave-servant and the seal of His
Messengers.
A ‘homo-sexual’ is one who is sexually attracted to and
desires or fulfills one’s desire to enjoy physical sexual intercourse with a
member of one’s own gender, as opposed to the natural fitrah of a
‘hetro-sexual’ who is sexually attracted to and desires or fulfills one’s
desire to enjoy sexual intercourse with a member of the opposite gender.
Homosexuality is absolutely and
categorically forbidden and prohibited in Islam. It is an abomination and a grave sin in the
eyes of Allah, and in Islam the doers of this sin are punishable by death!
Allah says in the Holy
Quran Chapter 7 Surah Aaraf verses 80-82:
And We sent
Allah says in the Holy
Quran Chapter 11 Surah Hud verses 82-83:
Accordingly, when the time of the execution of Our
Judgement came (for the people of
This deed of homosexuality is
deemed un-natural and against humanity and society in Islam. This deed is an evil and immoral deviation
of man, and is not even found in the
lower forms of animate life! Allah
destroyed the whole habitation of Prophet Lot,
and turned the whole city upside-down,
and rained on them a rain of brim-stones for their sin of
homosexuality. It was not that every
individual in Sodom and Gomorrah who were destroyed committed sodomy; but even those who accepted it, propagated it, looked upto it as a norm and
fashion, and allowed it without raising
a voice against this abomination, were all destroyed by Allah Subhanah.
And Allah warns in the Holy
Quran: ‘And such a scourge is not far from the
tyrannous people!’ Thus if in the
world today, this act of sodomy is
propagated and accepted as normal and as fashionable, and society as a whole does not take steps to abolish this abomination, the scourge that came upon the people of
Sodom and Gomorrah is not far!
We seek refuge in Allah from His
Wrath, His Anger and His Punishment!
Such is the abomination of the
act of homosexuality, that the Messenger of Allah (saws) has prescribed the
punishment of death for one convicted of this evil in this life; and if the
person did not repent for his deeds before his death, his punishment in the
Hereafter will be more severe and more lasting.
Sunan of Abu-Dawood
Hadith 4448 Narrated by Abdullah ibn
Abbas
The Messenger of
Allah (saws) said: ‘If a man (even if unmarried) is seized committing sodomy,
he will be stoned to death.’
If one trusts, obeys, and follows the guidance and
commands of Allah and His Messenger (saws),
one can be assured of never ever being misled; but if one believes, obeys and follows any
other guidance, other than that of Allah and His Messenger (saws), one can be
assured of being led astray.
Whatever written of Truth and benefit is only
due to Allah’s Assistance and Guidance, and whatever of error is of me
alone. Allah Alone Knows Best and He is
the Only Source of Strength.
Your brother and
well wisher in Islam,
Burhan
Wister