Muslim attitude towards the sin of homosexuality

 

Dear sir,



How are you? I am currently researching issues related to
Homosexual persecution In Asia, especially Malaysia. I hope
that you could kindly help answer a few of my questions.



1)How are homosexuals (Muslim & non-muslim) being treated
in Malaysia?

2)How severe will the punishment be?

3)How does society perceive homosexuals?

4)Is homosexuality legal?



Thank you very much for your kind help.

Praise be to Allaah.



We do not have any information about homosexuality in Malaysia, but we
assume that the Muslims there feel total abhorrence towards this shameful
act, because their religion, Islam, emphatically forbids this deed and
prescribes a severe punishment for it, in this world and the next. How
could it be otherwise, when the Prophet of Islam
(peace and
blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: "Whoever you find committing the
sin of the people of Lut (Lot), kill them, both the one who does it and the
one to whom it is done" - i.e. if it is done with consent. (This hadeeth was
narrated by al-Tirmidhi in his Sunan, 1376)



The scholars of Islam, such as Maalik, al-Shaafi'i, Ahmad and Ishaaq said
that (the person guilty of this crime) should be stoned, whether he is
married or unmarried.



There is no doubt that this act, which goes against the pure human nature
created by Allaah, by making men content with men and women with
women, destroying families, adversely affecting the birth rate, causing the
spread of killer diseases, harming the innocent when children are raped, and
generally spreading corruption on earth, should be uprooted and stamped
out.



Perhaps your research will lead you to find out much more about this
religion with its great laws and accurate rules and the wisdom of the One
Who revealed it.

I ask Allaah to grant you help and success, for Allaah is the One Who
guides to the Straight Path.