Homosexuality in Islam

The Islam, following the example majority of large the Religion S, regards the Homosexualité as being a Péché against the established order by God. The Charia condemns homosexuality in all the legal schools and prescribed the capital punishment like sanction.

Homosexuality in Coran

One can retain eight occurrences of this history, where the homosexual act seems evoked in Coran: VII: 78-81, XI: 74-83, XV: 67-77, XXI: 74, XXVI: 160-174, XXVII: 54-58, XXIX: 27-35, LIV: 33-39. that one can classify in two categories: where the text brings back the words of Loth, and another where it is God who expresses himself directly. question of knowing Which speaks indeed in Coran is a too vast subject, which it is advisable to simplify here to the extreme

Concerning the first category (it is Loth which is described), namely in the sourates VII, XI, XV, XXVI, XXVII, XXIX, it is noticed that the narration given in XXVI them Poètes is most complete, and that the others are only partial fragments or recalls. It gives (transl. Kasimirski):

XXVI - Poets

160. The people of Loth showed his prophets of imposture.

161. Loth, their brother, says to them: Won't you fear God?

162. I come towards you as apostle worthy of confidence.

163. Fear God, and obey me.

164. I do not ask of it you for any wages, my wages is with the load of God, sovereign of the universe.

165. You will have trades with men among all the creatures,

166. Giving up the women that God created for you? In truth, you are criminal people!

167. They answered him: If you ceases not your exhortations, we will drive out you city.

168. I flee the abomination for what you made.

169. Lord! deliver me and my family of their infamous actions.

170. We saved it, like all its family,

171. Except an old woman who had remained behind.

172. Then we exterminated the others.

173. We made rain on them a rain; what a terrible rain that which melted on these men that we let us exhort!

174. It was a sign of the sky; but the majority do not believe.

175. Your Lord, however, is powerful and miséricordieux.

The chronology induced by this narration makes go up the reason for discord to the charge of imposture. The charge of “loose morals” is, in this context, only one kind of insult that Loth turns over against its people of adoption. God punishes these people for his refusal to recognize in Loth a prophet, and not for presumedly the led sexual ones. It is very clearly known as in XXII.43 4:3. If they show you imposture, O Mohammed! thus think that before them the people of Noah, 'AD, Thamoud, Abraham, of Loth, Madianites, showed their prophets of them. Also brace was treated of liar. I granted a long time to the incrédules, then I visited them my punishment. How it was terrible! and also in L.13:

13. “AD and Pharaon, the fellow-members of Loth and the inhabitants of the forest, the people of tobba”, all treated their prophets of impostors, and deserved the punishment of which threatened we them.

It is then necessary to examine what is not any more Loth but of the direct word of God, as in LIV-37. And there, it is necessary to enter the text and to confront the translations: since Kasimirski (1840) all the “official” translations go in the biblical direction, to condemn the supposed practice of the people of Loth. Thus, when one translates “They wanted to misuse his hosts” or “they wanted to allure them”, one clearly interprets the text in a sexual direction, whereas the text only speaks to seize the hosts about Loth.

Because, which is reproached here, it is the non-observance of the laws of hospitality, which want in the East that the guests are crowned. It is the direction of the translation given by Savary (1783) “they wanted to tear off its hosts to him”.

Of another time, God expresses in a very vague way, that the translators interpret by “crime” or “turpitude”, without one knowing what it acts precisely.

History of homosexuality in the Islamic world

One finds in the Hadith S certain a number of passages in relation to the judgment of homosexuality. For example, some hadiths of the compilation of Tirmidhi condemn the homosexual act and those which practice it:

“Muhammad said: If you find whoever practicing the practices of the people of Loth, kill them, that it is that which makes the act or that which undergoes it.”.

The Imams Malik and Shafii, classify them with the married fornicators, whom they themselves are married or not.

Certain authors point out that the formal requirements so that the authority can enter in judgment are of a surgical precision such as they are almost impossible to satisfy.

Legal statute of homosexuality in the modern Muslim world

In general, homosexuality is punished by legal texts in the Moslem states, and not inevitably by the Islamic law, as it is the case with the the Maghreb.

Homosexuality is punished of prison and fines (Algeria, Libya, Tunisia) or of died in certain Moslem countries (Saudi Arabia, Iran). In Saudi Arabia, the homosexual ones can be subjected to the capital punishment or lose their civic rights.

The severity of certain States with respect to the homosexual ones leads some of them to emigrate towards the Occident where manners are generally more liberal in their connection.

The only country in the Muslim world which did not penalize homosexuality is the Turkey. However, in Iran, the transsexuality is recognized and the individuals transgenre are authorized to change sex. The life of the homosexual couple is not culturally accepted in the Muslim world.

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