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I am a Muslim and believe that gay marriage is 100% haram but when I tell that to some of my non-muslim friends they answer along the lines of:
1) You dont have the right to tell another person with who they can or cannot be in love with.
2) How can you HATE them..they are just two people who love each other and want to spend their lives with each other (I do not HATE gay/lesbian people but if you dont support them, it is assumed you hate them).
3) Islam is not the right religion cuz it advocates hatred against gays/lesbians.
The above-mentioned 3 reasons are the ones I find the most hardest to argue against.
Now I KNOW the reasons why homosexuality is not supported in Islam but I do not know how to say it to my friends in a way that they understand.
please help. :hmm:
Tell them that there is no compulsion in religion and that even as Muslims we are not forced to do anything we don't want to as we are created as beings who have been given free will but it is upto us how we live our lives but if we decide to abide by the commands of our lord then we will be eternally successful however if we choose to reject his commands then we do so at our own peril.
Islam does not advocate hate but it advocates what is best for humanity. Homosexuality is contrary to the success of humanity as it promotes deadly sexually transmitted diseases aswell as being contrary to procreation and it actual results in the reduction of the number of humans.
It also goes against the very balance of nature and therefore is unnatural. It also goes against human physiology because a man is meant for a women and not the otherway around therefore it goes against science itself.
It is morally unacceptable and its acceptance will only be to the detriment of humanity and will not benefit it in anyway.
It is disgraceful for both men and women. It degrades a person. Islam teaches that men should be men and women should be women.
We don't hate the people who commit the act but we have the right to hate the act itself which goes against nature, science, morality and the greater good of humanity.
They will have their own reckoning just like we will have ours. But we hate anything which goes against the commands of our lord and we stand firmly by that just like you can stand firmly by whatever you want to believe.
Remember brother when talking to non Muslims then talk to them in the most beautiful of manners using wisdom or tact but stand firm to your belief and remember that you will never be able to please everyone.
You must realise that you can only inform them as best you can and that ONLY Allah can guide them. So do the best you can to inform them, make dua that Allah guides them and then leave the rest to Allah.
and only Allah guides for we are only informers.