:bism: (In the Name of God, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful)
Tbh, I have no respect for sodomites. I feel as if once one has committed sodomy, one has lost his manhood. Sodomites just disgust me. If they have no respect for themselves, I won't have respect for them either. When I think about it, I can't stand them.
And Allah :swt: knows best.
Committing all illegal intercourse is
haram (forbidden), whether that involves the straight person or the homosexual/lesbian person. And just because a person is committing a sin doesn't mean that they you must lose respect for them. Respect is the default position of a Muslim towards any person, whether that person is a sinner or a saint.
Rasoolullaah صلى الله عليه وسلم cursed homosexuals three times in the Hadeeth.
Allaah Ta`aalaa did not punish any nation as much as he punished Qowm-e-Loot.
Prophet :saws:
(peace and blessings be upon him) did not curse homosexuals in the prophetic tradition, rather cursed the action involved, illegal intercourse, between two men. Also, I should remind you, especially as a student of knowledge/scholar, that you should be more precise with your words and also more compassionate. There are Muslims who identify themselves as having homosexual/lesbian feelings, and then they read statements like your word "despicable" in your first post as a response and then feel they have no place left for them in Islam when that is clearly untrue and feel that they are being pointed as "despicable."
Any person who asks forgiveness Allah for any illegal intercourse involved, whether in homosexuality or heterosexuality, will be forgiven, no matter how many times the person has committed the sin, as long as a person is sincere. My
sheikh (Islamic teacher) once said that leaving one forbidden action is more pleasing to Allah than doing 500 praiseworthy acts. That means you as a student of knowledge/scholar should be uplifting their
iman (faith) so that they have hope in Allah's mercy and encourage them to not commit illegal intercourse instead of condemning them with a blanket statement like "despicable."
Also, just because Allah saved you from committing that sin and ennobled you with Islam, doesn't mean you're any better as a human being in the eyes of Allah, and you should remember that it is Allah's Favor and Mercy upon you that you're not not committing that same sin. We recently had on IB a person who identified himself as a "homosexual" and he'd converted to Islam; I want to remind you of the
hadith (prophetic tradition), "Whoever shames his brother for a sin will not die until he does it too."
Let me share with you a TRUE story about an
alim (scholar) of his time aged 75 years in Damascus and in
khutbah (lecture) he was constantly frightening people with Hell-fire and
adhab, punishment, warning and warning, and people were frightened of his words. And what did Prophet :saws:
(peace and blessings be upon him) say? “Treat people with ease and do not be hard on them; give them glad tidings and do not make them run away (from Islam).” Then one day, he came to the masjid covered in a
niqab (Muslim full-covering veil) and people were surprised. He addressed them that day as "brothers" when he'd never done so before and said, "O my brothers, everything that I've been teaching you all these years is wrong. What I taught you all these years is wrong - you're all going to Paradise." People were happy but perplexed. He continued, "O brothers and sisters, today I saw a dream. I saw a dream that Judgment Day came and Allah called me. Allah said, "O My servant! You warned all My servants about Hell-fire, and I am going to be with you as you were, warning them of Hell-fire, and you never spoke to them about My Mercy! My Mercy has encompassed everything! My Mercy outweighs My Anger! Where did you leave My Mercy?! Why did you leave it behind? Based on what you have done, I am going to judge you action-by-action. You were warning them of the smallest mistake, so I am going to judge you on your smallest mistake!"
What did the
alim say? "I have nothing! I am praying and everything!" But then he had completely forgotten things he had done that were so small until Allah brought them to one balance and brought the good ones to the other balance, and the good ones were not heavy and the bad ones were heavier. Then Allah said to him, "I am judging you according to what you have done. You threatened My servants and I will judge you the same!" Allah brought hisamal and they vanished. "Now you deserve Hellfire. O My angels! Take him!" In the dream, he saw them taking him to the Hell-fire, and one flame from Hell-fire burned my hair and my beard completely. He screamed, "I will never repeat it! In all my
Jummah khutbahs and lectures I will never mention punishment, I will only mention Mercy!" Allah said, "It is TOO LATE, take him!" And then Prophet :saws:
(peace and blessings be upon him) appeared and said, "O Lord! Give him to me" and the
alim went to the side of Prophet :saws:
(peace and blessings be upon him). When he woke up, he found that my hair, mustache, beard, eyebrows, eyelashes, all were burned off! He could even see the black marks from the Fire, so he'd covered himself with the
niqab. Then he lifted the
niqab and showed to everyone in the congregation and they were amazed. That was a lesson and a miracle.
Sheikh, speak of Allah's Mercy, so that you find it when you need it. Does the
hadith (prophetic tradition) not say, “Allah will
not be merciful to those who are not merciful to people”?
