[Music] আশহাদু কল্লা মুহাম্মাদার Peace be upon you Hayya Hayya ala as-
Salat Hayya ala as-
Salah Hayya ala as-Salah
Allahu Akbar Allahu
Akbar There is
no god but
Allah, all praise is due to Allah, we praise Him and seek His aid and ask for His forgiveness, we believe in Him and put our trust in Him, and we seek refuge in
Allah from the evils of
our souls and the wickedness of our deeds. He whom Allah guides, none can misguide him, and he whom He misguides, none can guide
him. We bear witness that there is no god
but Allah, alone, without partner, and we bear witness that Muhammad is His
servant and Messenger. Allah the Almighty said in the
Glorious Quran, O you Those who have believed, fear God as He should be
feared, and do not die unless you are Muslims. He has spoken the truth.
আল্লাহ
besare মহামদ আবদুল্লাহ
was proposed
for our guance and guance of all and all
even today is in need of guance
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up school elementary middle school It
was a huge deal, it was
something so big and everyone was I ca
n't believe that that person did
something like that right and I'm not
that old you know 32 but The thing
is
that feeling or that you know that way
of looking at things has completely
changed in today's society when it comes
to elementary schools when it comes to
middle schools when it comes to high
school the entire what is considered to be normal
or what is considered to be
fine and there's no isue with that
behavior has changed. So the norms in
the society have changed to such an
extent that now people in the same type
of school setting do not have the same
feelings towards that type of way of
dressing or that way of manesting
whatever they would like to manifest and
the toic of is not about tattoos
and although could be another of itself
but the topic I would like to talk about
is about homosity
and this is a very important to
many people to be a tabu topic but
something which we need to address
something which we need to discus
because just going off the analysis of the
tattoos and
theings see this is a personal choice
wearing certain type of clothing making
certain type of decorations on your body
that's a personal choice
chere in domle affls behavior
of other people aff the
way the way the way behave the way we feel
towards certain types of behaviors and
mannerisms as well so when it comes to
the topic of homosuality question we need to be
very clear about the fact that this is an issue
actually some are
number one by upholding
ours is with homity Are we
discriminating against other people? Is
this a form of discrimination which is
like race discrimination which used to take place
in this country? Maybe it
still takes place in this country but
not at the same level it used to take place
50 years ago. Is that a factor?
That's a question and it's a serious
question that needs a serious and straightforward
answer. Number two, the
question people are confused about
whether people a choice whether they have
a choice in their homosual
tendencies or not and the answer to this
question usermines a person’s stance on
the issue but I will show that the
question itself is not as relevant as
people think it to be. Number three,
why should we impose our belief on
someone else when they don't believe
the same
thing? It's if it's not our business,
why do we get involved and should we get
involved in something which does not concern
us directly? Insyaallah I will
try to answer these
questions. But whenever we are confused as
Muslims, I'm speaking as a Muslim, when
we are confused about something, when
there are debates going on, when there is
propaganda being displayed from this
oranation or this TV
channel, what do we do? The first
thing
as go back to guidance
and the revelation from Surah prophecy at
105 just to
take
some of the evidence conclude from the verse speaks about prophecy about prophecy and he says Surah Al-A'raf 7 And [mention] Lot, when he said to his people, "Do you commit such immorality as no one before you has done before from among the
worlds? If only you had known
before you people first time
been told
that you do indeed approach men with desire instead of women. Rather,
you are a people who are immoral. If
only you had known before you people first time been told that you do indeed approach men with desire instead of women. Rather, you are a people who are immoral. And the answer of his people was only that they said, "Expel them from your city. Indeed, they are people who purify themselves."
And this interpretation in my
opinion and in the opinion of all
scholars that have existed for the last you
know 1300 years is that there's no
room for this form of interpretation
because the text does not allow for
that the story would have to be
completely twisted in to come up with
that type of interpretation. The
second understanding that people have is that that wasevant for
that time but things have
changed now the
circumstances have changed. So now
we've discovered some things through
scientific research or community has
modified itself or social norms have adjusted
such that we need to adjust
ourselves and we need to adjust our
interpretation of the Quran to those new
social norms and we have to understand
that when it comes to Islam
we do not adjust what Islam is due
to what people may want Islam to be or
due to the way that people have changed
and in reality ione
5s and get more gabage and ab of agees human
nature that may's
something remains fixed it
manifest itself Differently but it
remains quite static throughout history.
So let's get back to the question the
questions that we need to answer on this
topic and this is a very relevant toic
and a very important toic which many
people ask on a regular basis the anwers
that we present are Islamic anwers this
is what isl says about to the first
question is being a chice or something
not differ between
a not
differ
and
behaviolute noral behavi as defined by
ourat now Because number one there's a
difference between something normal and
natural. If you say natural and you
find what happ in nature say there are
some type of anales that actually go and
made with the same gender if you say
well that's an argument from nature to prove that is natural
then what do you
say about the praying mantis and what do
you say about the black widow who when
the female mates with the male the
female goes and eats the male that's
natural that exists in nature in some
insects does it mean that after a woman
mates with her husband can go and kill
him and eat him no we would not say this is
normal behavior this is not
acceptable behavior but it may exist in
some part of nature maybe in some
insects or some animals so there's a
difference between the two there is a
debate among the scientific community
regarding a gay
genes a gay gene exist in the sense that
people are naturally going to be born
that way there's been a lot of debate
and a lot of discussion and i don't want to
get into the details of the debat
accentar unity of bar which is very
liberal school by the way but regardless
of that Whether from the Islamic
perspective regardless of whether it is
something that people have in them or
they don't have in them and they acquire
it later on the
end of the day it's something a
behavior that people have to choose Fion show
which is a
choice or something natural you
could very easily ar natural because it
feels good. It's
tempting so you go ahad and you do it.
But it's a choice. Is drinking alcohol
and getting drunk a choice? Yes, it's a
choice. Are you inclined towards it? Is
it a natural feeling to want to do that to take
drugs to get high to enjoy
yourself? That may be so. So the thing
is we have to
about homosuality and
homosuals in the Islamic perspective we
classify people based upon their actions
not based upon their inclinations and
this is a rah this is a mercy from Allah
sub to because the propet alai was said
in an authentic hadith narrated by imam he
said and if somebody intends to do a bad
deed propination
and intention to do a sin
and you stop yourself from doing it you
actually get a good deed he did not talk
about the inclination he did not say
you're going to be held responsible for
the inclination able number
is this a
private isue of homosuality something
private such that not our business to
get involved in let's talk about America
let's talk about America
store down the right here naked just
because you like it will come and they
will do whatever they are going to do to you
now the question is because that affs
other people because in the public
sphere nak
can you into bookore and magazine
all those dirty and disgusting magazines
hiden right that's in America now in
Europe I I happen to live in Europe for
a while they don't have the same laws
you walk in and you find those magazines
whether you like it or you don't like it
on public display
station mag
all
right different
moralards you cann up
aino a slot machine for ging inside
your local grocery storn it up inside
your local starbucks in america but in
you can you walk into a grocery store
and you will find slot machines
and things
are
soal
and how it aff society as a whole. So
this is something very important to
understand in Europe again and in America
there are some feminists who
make an argument that prostitution
is better for a woman than to be a housewife
in subservance because
the prostitute is at least economically
independent and there was a problem in
Germany where Muslim
woml sisters were refused government
Gery
said you are not arching
and you take off you get
support you get assance the
point is morals are different w
America radically different can western
Europe is different eastern
Europe this is very important have
understand so when we talk about whether
this is a private isue or Muslim should not get involved
or Muslim should not
have a say in what to do or this is not
going to affect us you keep your belief
to yourself you need to In reality if
you get out of this theological circle
in reality it affects everyone and
everyone cares about it. So we should
also be caring about what happens.
Number three do gay people or homosual
LGBT community if we include everyone
else in there do they have rights and
that's a question that is plaging
American society because we have two
extremes the one extreme is for example
there chrtian business owner who said
you're not com I don't want you to come
into my store and buy anything like the I
'm not burgers
toal this is something which is not new
for Musl this is something which has existed
for a very long time Muslim
scholars have dealt with this in the p
for very long time and they had a very balanced
approach so to give you example
there is a century Muslim
scholar very famous scholar han schar
who wrote
anderitan
cann
inherit because of the invalid mares eng
in what about you which lived under the
musl state at
inheritluding how inheritance distributed
if you mared your mother
right and this is you know obviously
unacceptable in Islam but if you married
your mother and passed away someone else
passed away what
as
her as being the double inheritance
which does not apply so imam is basically
saying they do not get that level of benit
in the law because that is unjust
and they are taking something which is above
and beyond the law so we need to make
exception so when it comes to their
rights
some liv underl under the state and
nobody st them from do what do thereav
here is
that muslম cult was dominant it was
dominant in
the ag of everyone who was living under
or musls to be like musls there was a
chran priest in sp who was writing a
letter to the bishops and I have this
doc i can show you writing a letter to
the bishops complaining that all the chrtian
youth all the young chrans they are
starting to dress up like the musls they
want to learn Arabic and they read
ch
integral that was time and about
oppos what our circstances are and we
need to where we draw the line so when
it comes to how do we deal how does a
muslম deal with someone who is
homosual, who is gay or lesbian or
bisexual or whatever it may be how do we
deal with them? Well, first of all we
deal with them the same way we deal with
anyone else who is doing something
according to Islam that's incorrect.
Somebody who drinking how do some drugs
which is immoral in how we do them we ex there
no differ to abouting to do not abuse
them some people think by abusing
them we accomplish something but we not
because that person may change and
they may become better than you so we do not
abuse anyone and when it comes to working
ages because not
and have time
finallys my advice for the musl
community this isue is affecting us
because we become normalized and become promed
in society and if we are not on guard
we are going to find
people are not only confused people to
indulge and eng behavioral and sinful
according to islam so some things you
can do the
propet said your children to pray when
they are and discipline them about it
when they are 10 and serate their beds the
first thing you can do is to make
sure that at a young age the beds become separated
and they're not sleeping in the
same the prop was thinking along those
lines what happ when havingings
and going to be sleeping in the same bed
you don't want to open that door at all
so separate their beds number two the
prop said oh young men whoever among you
is able to should get married and
whoever is not able to get married
should fast and that will be a
protection for him today desires are out
of control and our society is
marer contra to
number and
ser masine
and
sisterine and them going the other way
try to guide them and make them fall
into their own gender because today we
are having this problem where the lines
are being blurred and men are starting
to act like women and women are starting to act
like men if you see one of those
brothers And I'm talking to the par now especially
if you see your child or your
son you know walking around like this or
making some funny movements or something
sit them down and give them some advice
because it's very important to preserve
these lines of gender differentiation
and lastly brother and sisters when we
spread the message of Islam we spread
the message of Islam with wisdom with wisdom
many people are struggling.
going some look disgusting this is
gross or this is that Allah
says do not purity to your by and going
and do this you think now all of a
sudden you more justified this is not
how we call people to isl this is not
how theage of isl people are sincer confused sincer confused
and they need guance
in all
things ali
so this brothers and sister is
simply ainder on the toic of homosuality
and the reason why ainder other
sit black and white and understand what
the sch said and
otherdefine what Islam is based upon
the previling circumstances and the
previling morales and standards so may Allah subhanah
waala keep us in the balance
understand all those people are under
difficulties and suffering the people in
Egypt the people in Syria, the people in
Burma, the people in Palestine all those
people who are being tortured or killed
or being oppressed by dictators or being
oppressed in their minds through
propaganda.
People are truthful and it shows us that it is true and all those people are suffering and all those people are undergoing difficulty and we ask to accept all those people who were murdered in this as true.
Amen Glory be to your Lord, the Lord of Glory. They describe and peace be upon the
messengers and praise be to God, Lord of the worlds.