Not Far Away From the Evil-Doers

I want to close with this verse. But before that, let's look at the conditions we're living in. We're living now in a society that is starting to recognise homosexuals as a minority group that deserves special status and deserves special rights. We are living in a society that now is publicly promoting this in media, TV, movies. We are living in a society that is now officially, in some places, marrying them. We are living in a society that regards them as a group that needs to be defended.

These things that exist in America and the West today, we need to understand and realise: according to my information, according to my knowledge, never ever in the history of mankind, since Lūṭ until now, whether we're talking about pagans, or Muslims, or Christians, or Jews, or any other religion, never has this sin been promoted publicly as it is being promoted today in the West. And look at all of the societies of the world; I'm not talking about Muslims only. This is something that is not viewed with any respect in any religion, in every culture and society, whether we're talking about Asia, India, or China, Japan, Africa, Europe, up till this time. Nobody in the world, since the time of Lūṭ till now, allowed such a sin to be promoted publicly and to be sanctified by the law, except the societies of the West that we are living in today.

And we need to realise that if this sin is promoted, and becomes public, and is protected by law, then Allah (swt) will bring down His punishment. Because Allah (swt) says: wa mā hiya min al-ẓālimīna bi-baʿīd. Allah (swt), after these ayat of Lūṭ, says: and this punishment is not far away from the evil-doers. This punishment will come down on any society that promotes such a sin.

This sin does exist in every society of the world, but it's underground, and the people despise it, and the people dislike it, and they make fun of anybody who commits it, and they are outcasts of the society, in any place in the world, Muslim or non-Muslim, except in the West today. It is looked upon right now, and we could get to that stage in the future, where for some people they view it as an honour. That is how evil things became.

This is the perception we need to have about this sin: that this is something that Allah (swt) will not allow to happen, and this is something that will draw the punishment of Allah (swt). And we make our voice clear, and we say that we disapprove the sin; we disapprove it severely. We view that this sin is ḥarām, and that it should be punished. And we do not approve of any public promotion of such a sin. And we make it a statement that we say aloud and clearly to everyone, and we're not afraid. And we say, even if they accuse us of discrimination, or accuse us of extremism or fundamentalism: this is our religion. This is the religion of Allah (swt). Innī li-ʿamalikum min al-qālīn: we severely disapprove this.

Ṣallā Allāhu ʿalā Muḥammadin wa ʿalā ālihi wa sallam.