Surah an-Naml , 27....Of Thamud, Lot, Homosexuality etc and etc.

Surah an-Naml, full recitation, Shaykh Abdul Rahman al-Sudais

The Surah then moves on to narrate the story of Thamud, another example of a people given to stubbornness and arrogance. As soon as a prophet named Salih emerged amongst them to lead them to God and a better life, they embarked on a scheme to kill him saying: "' Swear one to another by Allah that we verily will attack him and his household by night, and afterward we will surely say unto his friend: We witnessed not the destruction of his household. And lo! we are truthtellers. '" (49)  . However, it seems that instead of killing prohet Salih, they decided to kill the she-camel which God had sent to them as a sign of Salih's credentials. Their end was tragic.

So they plotted a plot: and We plotted a plot, while they perceived not. (50) Then see the nature of the consequence of their plotting, for lo! We destroyed them and their people, every one. (51) See, yonder are their dwellings empty and in ruins because they did wrong. Lo! herein is indeed a portent for a people who have knowledge. (52)

The surah continues citing the story of the prophet Lot and the town of Sodom whose inhabitants practiced perversion in their public places of gathering. Lot was an Israelite who had migrated to Sodom only to discover shockingly that open homosexuality was practiced by the men of the place as a matter of course. When he objected to this abomination the people decided to expel him. The surah says:

And Lot! when he said unto his folk: Will ye commit abomination knowingly? (54) Must ye needs lust after men instead of women? Nay, but ye are folk who act senselessly. (55) But the answer of his folk was naught save that they said: Expel the household of Lot from your township, for they (forsooth) are folk who would keep clean! (56)

The people of Lot were also destroyed and their city turned upside down. Although these vile practices were well known to the Jewish and Christian communities, whose books severely condemned them, they have come to be accepted today in the modern Judeo-Christian societies of America and Europe. Right from the beginning of this surah, we note that these practices and the people who promote them have been implicitly condemned to severe punishment. the surah says:

Lo! as for those who believe not in the Hereafter, We have made their works fairseeming unto them so that they are all astray. (4) Those are they for whom is the worst of punishment, and in the Hereafter they will be the greatest losers. (5)





" A Thematic Commentary On The Qur'an "
Shaykh Muhammad al-Ghazali






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and the west has been..... Drawing Lines in The Sand.....from time immemorial

Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State
United States Of America on Gay Rights, Homosexuality, Lesbianism and Human Rights.....

....only we choose to fail to recognize to whom it was addressed
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Reflection and commentary by Imam Zia of Irving Islamic Center, Texas





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