Quranic Illumination on the Phenomenon of Sexual Deviance
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Title: Quranic Illumination on the Phenomenon of Sexual Deviance
Created on: Thu Jan 24 11:16:48 -0500 2008
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Abstract: ... obstruct the road [i.e. commit highway robbery and acts of aggression against travelers]?- And practice wickedness [even] in your councils?" {Al-Ankabut, 29} What the people of this inclination are seeking is not to be compelled by society to conceal themselves, despite their openly swerving away from the straight way. Likewise, they seek to get what other people in the society have, such as the right of marriage, respect, and employment in all sectors of the state, whether military, political, educational, and diplomatic. Why, they say, are you intruding into what I do in my bedroom? What is the difference if a person does this with someone of the same type, whether man or woman, or with the other type? It is merely a hereditary affliction. However, the fact is that they are not simply seeking to do what they do privately, in their bedrooms. For, if they do it privately, a matter needs no permission from contemporary Western societies. It is not counted as a crime when it is consented to by both parties. What they are seeking now is really the right to proclaim openly that they are of this type, and that society does not oppose their public behavior which indicates that they are on this deviation, just as it does not oppose behavior that shows one to be "straight." I say "straight" in quotation marks because the publicizing of some sexual acts, even between men and women, even between married people, is not customary for straight people, though it has become customary in Western societies. The open practice of vices is worse than concealing them, because it offends straight people and tempts the weak ones among them to commit what these deviants are doing openly. 4. But the state of the people of Lot – as our Lord has told the story – shows that even this open publicizing is not the end of the path; it is only the first stage followed by – when no one exists to prevent them – the stage of supremacy. When the deviants are predominant in the society, the righteous people become constrained because they have to share the dwelling space in the same town. "And his people gave no answer but this: ‘Drive them out of this city: these are indeed men who want to be clean and pure!’" {Al-A’raf, 82} 5. Yet they go further than this: they will help each other to force righteous people to commit these vices with them, if they are able. Thus, Allah’s Messenger Lot (peace be upon him) was worried, when the angels in the form of handsome-faced men came to him. He knew what would happen to them with those people, who thought the guests were really men. So there came about what he had dreaded, the people came rushing and panting. Lot proposed marrying his daughters to them (whether that means daughters of his own flesh and blood or just the daughters of his people). But they did not restrain themselves and they humiliated him with his guests: "When our Messengers came to Lot, he was grieved on account and felt himself powerless to protect them. He said: ‘This is a distressful day.’ And his people came rushing toward him, and they had been long in the habit of practicing abominations. He said: ‘O my people! Here are my daughters: they are pure for you if you marry! Now fear Allah, and do not disgrace me concerning my guests! Is there not among you a single right-minded man?’" But they brazenly answered him: "They said: ‘Well do you know we have no need of your daughters: indeed you know quite well what we want!’ He said: ‘Would that I had power to suppress you or that I cou... [Full Article...]
