Today even some Ulama have adopted a complacent attitude towards gays and homosexuals.

Answer

The worst scoundrels who were homosexuals were the people of Nabi Loot (Alayhis salaam). Everyone is aware of the fate which Allah Azza Wa Jal inflicted on these people. From the Athaab which had totally obliterated the nation of homosexuals, we understand that there were no extenuating circumstances to mitigate the sentence which Allah Ta'ala had inflicted on them.

Today's kuffaar, deviate modernist 'muslims' and even some bootlicking molvis will find justification for the homosexuality of the people of Nabi Loot (Alayhis salaam) with their 'genetic' theory. Muslims who present such baboonic theories to justify the worst of sins lose their Imaan. Regardless of any unnatural tendency which the doctors diagnose, the fact remains that Allah Ta'ala has made homosexuality haraam and He has severely punished the homosexuals, and the Shariah prescribes even the death penalty.

It is therefore, haraam and akin to kufr for ulama to bootlick the kuffaar on this issue and to speak the language of the fussaaq and kuffaar doctors who are in reality atheists despite having Muslim names.

Even if we assume that the homosexual is naturally inclined to the same sex, then too, it should be remembered that he/she is not mad. His/her intelligence operates correctly. In South Africa there are gay and homosexual male and female judges of the High Court. They are not mad despite their sexual perversion. He/she fully understands his unnatural inclinations. But, instead of restraining the nafs, he / she gives free expression to bestial lust. The male homosexual is like the man who commits zina with a woman. This man who inclines naturally to women does not have a licence to fornicate. Similarly the man whose natural inclination is homosexuality does not have a licence to commit the perverted misdeed. Just as the man with a natural desire for females has to restrain his nafs and abstain from zina, so too has the man who inclines to another man have to abstain from homosexuality.

His natural inclination is a trial which he has to control. He is not permitted to give expression to his haraam desire simply because it happens to be his natural inclination. He has to submit to the Shariah.

T h e K h u n t h a (hermaphrodite) is an abnormal person - a person who is physically deformed. He/she has two sets of organs, male and female. The one set may be more developed than the other. Such a person will be classified in accordance with the organ which functions dominantly.

In rare cases both organs are functional, making it impossible to determine the sex. Such a person is classified Khuntha Mushkil. Rasulullah (Sa lla lla hu ala yh i wasallam) had exiled them to the outskirts of Madinah. There are Shar'i ahkaam pertaining to the khuntha mushkil.

Besides the khuntha mushkil, there are only male and female, and no third classification which admits scope for those with homosexual or lesbian inclinations. They have to just restrain their nafs and act within the limits of the Shariah. The genetic argument does not mitigate their crimes of homosexuality.

The aforegoing explanation does not permit that these people be held in contempt. Despising a person even if the person is a kaafir, is not permissible. No one knows what the future holds for himself/herself. It is quite possible that the homosexual will repent and rectify his bond with Allah Ta'ala while the one who had held him (the homosexual) in contempt, may flip and begin plodding the path of Jahannam. There were many such cases. The episode of Hadhrat Abdul Wahhaab Bin Abdul M a j e e d T h a q a f i (Rahmatullah alayh) appearing elsewhere on this page will be a salubrious lesson, Insha-Allah.