One of my friends recently admitted that he is homosexual. He says Allah is unjust. What should I advise him?

HOMOSEXUALITY IN THE LIGHT OF ISLAM%0D%0A%0D%0AThe aim of natural sexuality is procreation. Lawful and natural sexual%0D%0Arelations between man and woman has been designed by Allah to preserve the%0D%0Ahuman race here on earth. Homosexuality is negatory of the natural role and%0D%0Aaim of sexual activity.%0D%0A%0D%0AThe experts on homosexuality and other forms of sexual deviation advance a%0D%0Aseries of groundless assumptions in their discussion on the causes of such%0D%0Aunnatural sexuality. They attribute it to hereditary taints, genetic causes,%0D%0Aenvironmental influences, animal instincts in man, etc. In certain cases,%0D%0Ae.g. 'transiet homosexuality' where men are separated from women such as%0D%0Aprisons, same sex institutions, etc. they argue that the criminal's blame%0D%0Awill be considered as diminished in view of his circumstances.%0D%0A%0D%0AIslam does not accept any type of justification for the unnatural sin of%0D%0Ahomosexuality regardless of any biological, psychological or environmental%0D%0Afactors which may influence a man to indulge in this type of grossly%0D%0Aunnatural immorality. This should not be interpreted to mean that Islam does%0D%0Anot recognize the reality or validity of the existence of the various%0D%0Afactors which influence man to commit homosexuality. However, the presence%0D%0Aof any destructive influences which lead man towards this unnatural and%0D%0Abestial act of immorality does not constitute a valid excuse for indulgence%0D%0Ain acts of deviation and inhumanity. Just as fornication, rape and other%0D%0Acriminal acts of immorality cannot be condoned because of biological,%0D%0Apsychological, environmental, factors, etc, which may be the causes which%0D%0Aoccasion the crime, so too, can these factors not be cited in favour of%0D%0Adiminished blame for the act of homosexuality. In spite of the existence of%0D%0Athe factors (described as causes) of adultery, human culture does not permit%0D%0Aman and woman to indulge in this crime notwithstanding the naturalness of%0D%0Aheterosexuality. They are required to restrain themselves and behave within%0D%0Athe bounds of chastity and morality.%0D%0A%0D%0AIn like manner man is required to exercise restraint and overcome his%0D%0Aemotional, biological demands, etc. and manage the disturbances within him.%0D%0AHe, as a member of the highest species of Allah's creation, is under moral%0D%0Aobligation to control the dictates of his lust - whether such lust directs%0D%0Ahim towards unnatural or natural avenues - and refrain from smearing his%0D%0Asoul and intellect in such loathsome indulgence.%0D%0A%0D%0AModern studies and the many consequent theories regarding the crime of%0D%0Ahomosexuality lend to convey a blurred conception of the Biological%0D%0Adisturbances as well as some environmental factors are even tendered as%0D%0Amitigating circumstances to reduce the stigma and the blame from the%0D%0Ahomosexual. This idea has made homosexuals daring and revengeful of their%0D%0Aunnatural crimes. They have come to regard their misdirected lust as morally%0D%0Aacceptable. They, as well as the 'experts' who have undertaken research in%0D%0Ahomosexuality, have deceived themselves into believing in the idea of%0D%0Adiminished, blame and moral acceptance, of this unnatural act. As long as%0D%0Aman's intelligence is not inflicted with insanity, he is held responsible%0D%0Afor his actions and he is Islamically under compulsion to restrain his%0D%0Aperverted cravings so that he does not descend into a sub-human level of%0D%0Aexistence.%0D%0A%0D%0AMan's gratification of his sexual appetite with another man has a long%0D%0Ahistory of its own. The Qur'an bears testimony t the fact that the people of%0D%0Athe prophet Lut (Alayhis salaam), the nephew of Ibriham (Alayhis salaam),%0D%0Asent as a warning to the people of Sodom and Gomorrah, were those who%0D%0Ainitiated this heinous practice. Before them it was unknown. In this%0D%0Aconnection the Qur'an mentions:%0D%0A%0D%0A"We also sent Lut. He said to his people, 'Do you commit indecency such as%0D%0Ano people in creation (ever) committed before you? For you practise your%0D%0Alusts on men in preference to women; you are indeed a people transgressing%0D%0Abeyond bounds."%0D%0A%0D%0AThese Sodomites even indulged in their homosexual orgies publicly. Their%0D%0Awickedness had attained the level where the mere sight of a handsome young%0D%0Aman made them so agitated that they pounced upon him as famished people%0D%0Awould fall on food. Even honoured guests did not enjoy immunity or any%0D%0Aprivileged position. They did not hesitate in even resorting to violence in%0D%0Aachieving their lustful object.%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0AThe Qur'aan has depicted the scene when the angels of punishment Lut%0D%0A(Alayhis salaam) as his guests in the guise of handsome young men. Hadrat%0D%0ALut (Alayhis salaam) did not recognized them in the first instance. But he%0D%0Aknew the shameless habit of his people. He was extremely distressed and he%0D%0Aapprehended that his people would certainly demand unnatural and shameful%0D%0Asexual activity. His apprehension was correct. They could not sit silently%0D%0Aat the news of such "boys" of excellent beauty. These sodomites recklessly%0D%0Arushed to the home of Lut (Alayhis salaam) to gratify their unnatural%0D%0Adesires. Lut (Alayhis salaam) found himself in a difficult situation. He%0D%0Aprompted them to legally satisfy their sexual appetite with women even%0D%0Aoffering his daughter in lawful marriage to the most gentle of them, and not%0D%0Ainsisting on this unnatural outlet. Then he very effectively appealed to%0D%0Athem, in the name of Almighty, that they should abstain from disgracing him%0D%0Aby dishonouring his guests.%0D%0A%0D%0AThe Qur'an states:%0D%0A"And his people came rushing towards him, and they had been long in the%0D%0Ahabit of practising abominations. He said: "O my people! Here are my%0D%0Adaughters: they ore purer for you (if you marry)! Now fear Allah, and cover%0D%0Ame not with shame about my guests! Is there not among you a right-handed%0D%0Aman?"%0D%0A%0D%0ABut the accursed people inflamed with evil passions turned a deaf ear to all%0D%0Ahis reasoning with them. They had lost all sense of morality and were blind%0D%0Ain their voluptuous sentiments. On this occasion they even taunted him for%0D%0Ahis frequent protests in the past against their sins. Hadrat Lut (Alayhis%0D%0Asalaam) seemed helpless in the situation in which he found himself, - alone%0D%0Aagainst a rabble of people inflamed with lustful passions. He wished he had%0D%0Athe strength to suppress them himself or had some powerful support to lean%0D%0Aon! But the powerful support was there, though he had not realized it till%0D%0Athen. It was the support of the Almighty. His guests were not ordinary men,%0D%0Abut Angels who had come to test the people before they inflicted punishment.%0D%0AThey now declared themselves and gave him directions to get away before the%0D%0Amorning, when the punishment would descend on the doomed cities. Even in%0D%0ALut's (Alayhis salaam) household was one, i.e. his wife, who detracted from%0D%0Athe harmony of the family. She lagged behind and looked back, i.e. one whose%0D%0Amental and moral attitude, in spite of association with the righteous was to%0D%0Ahark back to the glitter of wickedness and sin. Finally, the wrath of%0D%0AAlmighty descended upon them, their cities were turned upside down and%0D%0Ashowers of stone rained on them. Regarding this the Qur'aan mentions:%0D%0A%0D%0A"Then when Our decree came to pass. We turned the cities upside down, and We%0D%0Arained thereon stones of baked clay, piled up."%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0AThe punishment of turning upside down given to this people resembles%0D%0Aoutwardly their shameless deed of homosexuality. The shower of stone was%0D%0Avery thick so as to form layers. It is also said that the name of each man%0D%0Awas written or engraved on those stones which were the cause of their%0D%0Aannihilation. The inversion of cities by way of punishment was the task%0D%0Awhich was assigned to Jibraaell (Alayhis salaam). Homosexuality is also a%0D%0Aform of sexual inversion, hence the type of punishment was most befitting in%0D%0Athat it also symbolized their unnatural acts of immorality. Showers of%0D%0Astones (not hail-stones, but real stones) are not a normal occurrence. So%0D%0Atoo, the punuhment of the inversion of the cities (was quite rightly%0D%0Ajustified). Thus, unnatural forms of punishment were prescribed by Allah for%0D%0Athe unnatural sins of the homosexual community.%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0AThe community of Lut (Alayhis salaam) was a prosperous nation materially and%0D%0Athey inhabited five cities: Sodom, Gamurah, Udmah, Laboobem and Sughar. The%0D%0AQur'aan refers collectively to these five cities with the term Mu'tafikaat%0D%0A(the inverted cities). The cities are so designated because of the perverted%0D%0Acrimes of sexual inversion of their inhabitants and because they were%0D%0Aphysically inverted and eliminated by the command of Allah.%0D%0A%0D%0ABefore the people of Sodom, never did this evil even enter the mind of%0D%0Amankind, let alone practicing it. The Umayyad Khalifah "Abdul Malik said%0D%0Athat if this episode of the homosexuals was not mentioned in the Qur'an, he%0D%0Awould not have conceded the reality of this crime since it was unthinkable%0D%0Athat man will descend to such a degenerate level and debase himself in a%0D%0Atype of act which is not indulged in by even the overwhelming majority of%0D%0Alowly beasts.'%0D%0A%0D%0ANevertheless, even after the community to which prophet Lut (Alayhis salaam)%0D%0Awas sent as cautioner, met their catastrophic end, sodomy continued and even%0D%0Asometimes flourished. It is now known that homosexuality existed before the%0D%0Apre-Christian era among the so-called 'civihilised' nations of the world%0D%0Aespecially the Greeks and Romans. It was not only confined to common masses,%0D%0Abut even legendary and prominent figures such as Socrates, Aristotle, Julius%0D%0ACaesar and many others practiced it. (Miftahi)%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0AIn thirteenth century France, homosexuality was the great craze of the day%0D%0Aand the government of the country had to enact a law that those found of%0D%0Aguilty of this unnatural crime will be put to death. And Germany was not far%0D%0Abehind in the pursuit of this craze. Before Nazi Germany there was a famous%0D%0Aperson, Dr Magnus Herschefield, (who had been the president of the society%0D%0Afor the Reformation of Sexual behaviour), who launched powerful propaganda%0D%0Ain favour of sodomy for six years. Finally 'democracy' acceded to this%0D%0Ademand and the strictly forbidden became approved. It was decided by%0D%0Amajority vote that homosexuality among the males was no longer an offence%0D%0Aprovided it was indulged in with mutual consent of the parties involved and%0D%0Ain case of the object of the unnatural love being a minor, his guardian had%0D%0Ato give his consent. In the Orient, Iran has been notorious and Persian%0D%0Apoetry amply supports it. Karachi has also been named in this regard. It is%0D%0Asaid there were three centres there, where eunuchs carried on that unnatural%0D%0Abusiness. Afghanistan (then under Communist influence) has also been%0D%0Amentioned. India, too, is not so clean in her records in this field,%0D%0Aalthough the common people are involved in it to a limited extent. It is the%0D%0Aeducated and the sophisticated people who take to it as a diversion. The%0D%0Aeducational institutions, schools, colleges and centres of oriental studies%0D%0Atoo are not free from this curse.%0D%0A%0D%0AIslam strictly forbade this detestable deed and prescribed the severed%0D%0Apunishment, relenting not in the least in making it a deterrent. The Qur'aan%0D%0Acautions that once people take to homosexuality, they sink to the depths of%0D%0Amoral degradation. The admonitory punishment meted out to these%0D%0Atransgressors was described in such a moving way that those reciting the%0D%0AQur'an may learn the harsh consequences of this evil, and may protect%0D%0Athemselves from this outrageous crime. To deter the Muslims from evil, the%0D%0AQur'aan initially declared to those participating in this perversion:%0D%0A%0D%0A"If two men among you are guilty of indecency, punish them both."%0D%0A%0D%0AOnce Prophet Muhammad (Sallallaahu Alayhi Wasallam) expressed his%0D%0Aanticipated fear by stating that among the evils that his ummah can take to,%0D%0Ahe feared sodomy most. In fact, this was a forewarning measure that the%0D%0Aummah may guard against, realizing that the prophet himself had forbidden%0D%0Ait. On one occasion Prophet (Sallallaahu Alayhi Wasallam) declared:%0D%0A%0D%0A"Whoever gratifies his sexual urge with another (individual%7D of his own%0D%0Asex,, Almighty will not so much as look at him."%0D%0A%0D%0AUndoubtedly, sodomy is one of the most repulsive acts, even observed among%0D%0Abeasts. Therefore, the sight of a homosexual will be so disgusting to Allah%0D%0Athat it will intensify His anger to heights where He will not even consider%0D%0Aglancing at a sodomist. Through this act, man degrades his humanity and%0D%0Aannounces extermination as his policy. Moreover, it implies wretchedness and%0D%0Amisery of the womenfolk and he himself is prone to so many diseases: the%0D%0Abasic organs of his body, brain, heart, liver and kidneys become deficiently%0D%0Aimmune (AIDS), his face lacks the sparkle of health and he looks off-colour%0D%0Aand melancholy, with the result that such an incapacitated criminal becomes%0D%0Aworthless to women. This wretched outcast deprives himself of the bounty of%0D%0Aprocreation and the priceless jewel of morality.%0D%0A%0D%0A[ Morality in Islam, Acaciaville]