"LIGHT Upon LIGHT"

Homosexuality?

🔵 HOMOSEXUALITY 🔵

- speaker - Yasmin Mogahed

While I was on tour recently, I met a few sisters who confided in me that they were struggling against homosexual feelings. With utmost compassion and respect, I told them that

▶️ their fight to refrain from *ACTING UPON* their desire was a ❤️NOBLE STRUGGLE❤️

▶️ And that they would be 💚 REWARDED 💚for THAT  💞 MUJAHADA 💞 (spiritual struggle).

🔰In fact, this is where many people get confused. We are not held accountable for our desires. We are held accountable for what we *do* with those desires.

❤️Islam is the path of balance. We don't condemn people for a feeling inside them. But we also don't condone an action just because society says so. ❤️

We cannot deny that desires exist.✔️
▶️ But we cannot blindly obey whatever those desires command, either.

▶️ To obey our desires blindly would be worship. And to worship one's desires would become extremely dangerous for the entire society.
▶️ See, we all have desires. Some desire another person's spouse. Some desire violence against another person that hurt them. But does that give a license to obey those desires?

⛔ What if a woman was never able to get married? Does Islam give the license for her to have intimacy outside marriage? Or would she be asked to practice restraint in her desire?  What if a man has a desire for his secretary, rather than his wife? Does that attraction give him the moral license to act upon it? Would it be morally correct? No. It would be adultery.

✔️ One may argue that obeying violent desires or adultery are wrong because another person gets hurt.

▶️ But what if no one else would get hurt and both *are* consenting adults? What if a brother and sister had a mutual attraction to each other? Should they obey that desire? Would that attraction give the moral license to act upon It? They are two consenting adults "in love." So should they get married?

📛 Making a desire the deciding factor in our actions is extremely dangerous. But in our culture today, there has emerged a sort of thought policing. When it comes to the topic of homosexuality, every direction of media and now even our schools, command us on what we are allowed to believe or not believe. And these beliefs are literally shoved down our throats and the throats of our children. And then we are called all sorts of names if we don't accept these beliefs that are assigned to us. 📛

As Muslims, we believe alcohol and pork are forbidden. Does that make us alcophobic for disagreeing with a lifestyle choice?

🔵 Remember, every human being has the right to their own beliefs of what they think is right and wrong. But we do not have a right to harm others who choose a different lifestyle or insult others who carry a different belief. And even those who do comit this sin, we can hate a sin, while still having compassion for the sinner. 🔵