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AL-LIWAAT (SODOMY)
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PART 6
PUNISHMENT OF SODOMY IN ISLAM:
Last
week we looked at the punishment prescribed by the Islamic Sharia’h for
a person, who either confesses four times before an Islamic Qadhi about
his indulgence in sodomy or four just witnesses who had seen him
committing the act with their own eyes testify in consonance.
One
who commits sodomy shall not die without being punished in the same
manner as the people of Prophet Lut (as) were punished.
According to the Holy Quran, three kinds punishements were meted out to
the people of Lut (as):
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Terrible scream and shriek
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Shower of stones that rained upon them
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The earth turned upside down
After the third calamity, Quran says:
“Marked (for punishment) with
your Lord and it is not far off from the unjust”.
(11:83)
This
verse indicates that similar punishments may also be inflicted upon
those who commit sodomy.
Abu Baseer once asked Imam Ja’ffar as-Sadiq (as) about the verse:
“So when Our decree came to
pass, We turned them upside down and rained down upon them stones, of
what has been decreed, one after another”.
(11:82)
Imam (as) explained:
“There is no one who leaves
this world while considering sodomy permissible, but that Allah hits him
with one of the stones that had fallen on the people of Lut (as)”.
(Tafseere Qummi)
After death, a homosexual will be joined
with the people of Sodom who were destroyed and counted among them.
In
the days of ‘Umar ibn al-Khattab, the second Caliph, a slave killed his
master. When he confessed the crime , ‘Umar ordered him to be put to
death. Imam Ali bin Abi Talib (as) questioned this slave:
“Why did you kill your
master?” The slave replied:
“he had forcibly committed
sodomy with me”. Imam (as)
asked the heirs of the deceased,
“Have you burried him?”
To which they replied, “Yes, we
have just come after burrying him”.
Imam (as) advised ‘Umar to hold the slave
in custody for three days and told the heirs of the deceased to come
back after three days.
Three days passed, then Imam Ali (as), ‘Umar and some of the heirs of
the murdered man went to the grave. Upon reaching there, Imam (as)
asked: “Is this the
grave of your man?” They
answered, “Yes”.
Ali (as) ordered the grave to be dug out. Amazingly the dead body had
disappeared from it. Imam Ali (as) said:
“Allahu Akbar! I have heard
the Holy Prophet (saw) saying that: Whoever from my nation commits the
act of the nation of Lut (as) and dies before repenting for it shall not
remain in the grave for more than three days. The earth will suck him
inside and he shall reach the place of the dead of Lut (as) where
destiny annihilated them. Then that person will also be counted among
them”. (Gunahaane Kabeera)
To be continued……………….
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