Recordings › Muslim Scholars Allying With LGBTQ Community ? | Mufti Abu Layth · 22 Feb 2023 › Segment 2 of 9
Should Muslims tell gay people what the Quran says about homosexuality?
muftis haraam forbidden koran quraan al-quran ulama ulema ulamaa shaykh sheikh shaikh shuyukh shaykhs ummah umma ummat deen al-din ad-deen ad-dinShould Muslims preach the Quran's view to gay people in America?
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machinesummary, machine-writtenMufti Abu Layth says Americans are overwhelmingly not Muslim, so speaking on issues there means speaking to non-Muslim norms rather than preaching the Quran to them.
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The caller says he is not anti-gay in the sense of violence, which he associates with ignorance, and that people are free to be gay as a matter between them and God, but that Muslims should still preach the Quran's message, as the Bible and the Jewish texts also speak against the act of the people of Lot. Mufti Abu Layth asks whether that means going up to gay people to tell them what the Quran says, and argues that Muslims are a tiny minority in America, so speaking generally about issues in a country means speaking about its norms, and the overwhelming majority of Americans are not Muslim. The caller says the Muslim minority looks to scholars as a source of guidance and that scholars should publicly say what was done was wrong. Mufti says he last spoke to Omar Suleiman about five years ago and does not speak for him, and confirms that the caller accepts Americans' right to be gay, the issue being scholars' support for or silence on the movement.
Question as read aloud · questioner not identifiedIf you are a Muslim, we should preach the message. Should we not tell people what the Quran says about it?
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Mufti Abu Layth says that when speaking generally about issues in a country such as America one speaks about its norms, not its exceptions.
“so when you're speaking generally about issues in a country you're going to speak about the Norms not the exceptions”
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also was it NY NY was it whilst they were joining hands were they doing this I I I didn't look deep into this uh video was they like whilst they're standing there hands coming around on on the shoulder it's like it's like or so right okay so the question is Muslims should be uh anti-gay is this the question do you feel do you do you feel Muslim should be
anti-gay not that type of anti-gay okay there are two types of ant the religious the one is I don't know any of them tell us one is AB is the thing which we call Jal which is in Pakistan from where I belong and you belong that anything anything uh which goes against your uh uh perception of religion he should be killed or he should be destroyed or should be he should be killed killed clearly that's the thing
which I saw in Pakistan who should be killed Oh you mean Oh you mean like oh right okay you're saying people do this out of ignorance they attack people not that kind of so you're saying okay not okay so let's there should be no violence no persecution no abuse nothing like this but you shouldn't support their right to be gay this is what you're saying okay no no no no no no again wrong oh no okay they are free they can okay they so you do support their right to be free yeah yeah
I'm totally humanarian thing humanitarian thing that they want to be gay it's their choice it's between them and Allah and if they're if they're Muslim but the point is we should preach the message listen this is the thing Quran tells us this if you're a Muslim if you're non-muslim again if which religion for example Bible Bible speaks against that act of lot people of lot Jews also have the same taxt but if someone is still after delivering the message continuous between him and his God right we are not there so I don't understand so the question is
that right so in society people so you agree I'm just being clear so you agree people have the right to be gay now you're saying well however we should go around telling them what the Quran says about that is this like so we should go up to gay people and say do you know what Allah says in the Quran about is this what we should be doing do you do you think is that what a duty thatl they're Muslims if they are Muslims and but okay but look but let's let's take America you're talking about America as an example Muslims are tiny minority in America tiny insignificant almost minority so majority of America
is not Muslim like minity of you know that's minority people so when you're speaking generally about issues in a country you're going to speak about the Norms not the exceptions so the the norm is you're not talking about Muslims so America is not Muslim and minority a very small minority of the 300 million people of America are Muslim tiny people so it's insignificant it's like if you're trying to speak about Chinese issues in the UK like there are Chinese people that live in the UK but they you know they're not it's not the
UK though so so when you're speaking about lgbtq or people being gay or people being in America now you're speaking about the American people which for the absolute overwhelming utter astronomical majority are not Muslims so so what's the issue the issue is should you go around telling them about the the Quran and stuff is this the issue but they're not Muslims so why are you telling them in the minor in that Minority the beam of light is for example omaran that
Minority looks towards omaran as a source of heed or hi right he's their the well famous sh and when the do you feel like okay let's take because right now I don't understand this is obviously all about let's say Omar omaran I don't know why I'm speaking on behalf ofan you're not speaking you're not speak last time I spoke to him it was about I think I spoke to she Oman has probably been about what was it about five years ago five years yes exactly I saw you and yeah so I since then I don't think I've ever we've ever
spoken so I I'm not really I don't think he would want me speaking on behalf of him he would be like I don't want you to speak off him I'm saying the scholars should say that what he did was wrong public publicly on their channels not directly telling to you I'm just saying that let's okay let's roll with it let's unpack this here slightly so what this what we're saying is in America uh they are so you agree you agree that Americans they're absolutely in their right to be gay there there's no issue with this
from your side you're not disagree what I have to do with that their choice yeah so now what you're saying is you have lgbtq let's say I don't know what the like rallies or or you have rights or whatever so people like Sheik omaran uh are are are supporting those people or they're supporting that movement they're not condemning they're not being outspoken against these things this is the the issue can I ask first of all okay we'll come to some Islamic side in a
moment do you feel that what is the insecurity about this I'm just trying to understand that what what what disturbs you about this if something is Haram in Islam according to Quran how can you promote the agenda of that FNA into to your own Community by joining hands with the people who are promoting it K the people who did that act man with men it's totally prohibited in Quran I know you disagree no no wait no wait wait actually let's start on that why do you say I disagree what if I said because mu
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