Response To Article Claiming Homosexuality Ok In Islam
Thank you for pointing me to the videos and conversations regarding my question. Extremely helpful for my research. One point that didn’t seem to come across and apologies of I missed it. The example of comparing a handicapped person (for example a person with no legs) and a homosexual as both being subjected to Allah’s trial doesn’t seem equal. If a lame person is offered prosthetic legs no one tells him to refrain from using them because he is undergoing a god given trial. A homosexual if offered a chance at forming a consensual loving respectful union recognized by the state as having equal rights is asked by Muslims to refuse and instead forever bear his lonely trial. To summarize my point homosexuals are the only afflicted group who are told to never hope for a partner (please don’t say they can always marry a woman when we all know they can’t and even the Quran acknowledges men who have no use for a woman). Another example that a moderator gave which is that of a heterosexual person who cannot marry and yet stays away from zina feels the same sexual frustration of a homosexual abstaining from the act is also not at all comparable because the hetrosexual man has the hope and blessing of Allah to continue to find a woman to marry and the homosexual is asked to be hopeless. Hope is a beautiful thing that keeps us living and to deny homosexuals this hope seems cruelty. By the way, I appreciate so much the Ask Ghamidi team who make it possible to reasonably and rationally put forward thoughts and arguments and not fear judgement or harsh comments. Thank you very much.