MUSLIMS' ATTITUDES TOWARDS HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE LGBTQ MOVEMENT EPISODE 4️⃣: Carrying out the Punishment

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*MUSLIMS' ATTITUDES TOWARDS HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE LGBTQ MOVEMENT*

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*EPISODE 4️⃣: Carrying out the Punishment*

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Scholars have stated that just as people have ‘learned’ to be homosexual, they can also learn not to be if they choose to correct their behaviour and are helped in that process; and therefore, they return back to their natural state of being, or at least desist from a homosexual activity if they are not able to be heterosexual.

The Qur’an does not say how homosexuality should be punished, but a saying of the Prophet (ﷺ) makes it clear: 

*_“Whoever you find engaging in the action of the people of Lūt, execute the one who does it and the one to whom it is done.”_*

[Ibn Majah 2561, Tirmidhi 1456]

This saying must not be used by individuals as an excuse to enact or incite violence against homosexuals.

Prescribed punishments can only be carried out by the legal authority in a country that practices Islamic Law (i.e. in a Muslim country); and there must be clear evidence that actual intercourse has taken place. 

The Muslim penal code carries out punishments based on the unlawful act that is committed and not based on a person's inclinations, if no illegal act has been committed.

This is the view of all of the famous scholars and jurists of Islam, in line with the punishment dealt with the people of Lūt (in the Qur’an) and the hadīth of the Prophet (ﷺ). 

A Muslim, regardless of which country he lives in, is not allowed to physically harm those he regards to be sinners, nor incite others to do so. Vigilantism goes against Islamic teachings because it creates an anarchic, unjust, and disorderly society.

Some homosexuals consider themselves to be Muslims, and they know they are sinners in the sight of Allaah (ﷻ) just as there are some Muslims who fornicate, steal, lie and deal in usury. They recognize their sins. 

These sins are not considered unbelief that exit Muslims from the fold of Islam, but those who practice them are major sinners under the threat of Allaah’s punishment as purification for their crimes.

Homosexuality is illegal in virtually every Muslim country in the world, with punishments ranging from fines and prison to corporal punishment and execution. 

There are over 75 countries across the world, Muslim and non-Muslim, that consider homosexuality to be a criminal offence. But lately, due to the western influence, the public opinion of this heinous crime has started changing and Muslims have started showing support for such movements.

_To be continued... إِنْ شَاءَ ٱللّٰهُ‎_

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