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My stand on LGBTQ+ (long thread)
I’m well aware that all religious texts forbid it & specify it as act of Sin. I fully accept & do not contest on the Quran & any Hadith. However I personally know people who identify as such, in India & outside.
I’m well aware that all religious texts forbid it & specify it as act of Sin. I fully accept & do not contest on the Quran & any Hadith. However I personally know people who identify as such, in India & outside.
Have had discussions abt their struggles 4acceptance, alienation by family, ridicule by society, & most times denial of basic dignity for their existence. Until recently being gay was classified as a disease that needed treatment.
We now know that it isn’t so & it’s something u are born with, & not something U wake up one day & decide to identify with. It’s beyond anyone’s control.
My closest friend, not a Muslim has struggled with it even in a progressive society as USA. A very close family friend who is Muslim has struggled with it all his life, got married under family pressure, borne 2 kids but eventually lead to a messy, heartbreaking divorce.
He’s a practicing Muslim but has found love now & lives with his domestic partner who is also Muslim. He keeps all his fasts, prays daily with tahajjud even. Shares a lot of Islamic information with my mum & is very active in his local mosque charities.
I have seen his lifelong struggle for acceptance & ridicule by society so much that he had to leave his neighbourhood after the divorce when word got out for the reasons. His own 2sons refuse to talk to him now. He is an absent father but not by choice.
He may be committing sin everyday, he may be doing something which is against the religion but he is also a good human being trying hard 2hold on 2his iman thru his struggles. We aren’t anyone to scream on top of our voices saying u are doing haram & deserve the wrath of Allah.
He is very aware of what Islam says about it. I personally don’t condone his lifestyle neither will I condemn his choices.
But yes 2normalising, including, accepting w/o judgement, supporting & encouraging everyone from this community. Closing these options to them by constantly reminding them of the wrongs & posting against normalising is going to further alienate them from the religion & community
The friends mom stood by him & told him he isn’t wrong 2b born that way but advised him2. Huge reason why he is still practicing I guess. It was only after she passed away that he moved in together with his partner, out of respect 4someone who stood by him I guess
Yes a lot of u will ask if he can respect his mom why not Allah? I can’t answer for him. But he’s been through a lot- struggled with depression, anxiety & attempted suicide but worked very hard to find his space in this world & that little bit of happiness he has now.
Maybe Allah will forgive him on that day & completely overlook this one aspect of who he is compared to all the good he does. Maybe his ibadah & repentance does get accepted. After all he is Ar-Rahman & Ar-Raheem.
