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Sobi said: Dum dum dum dum ...... Nah, still think it comes down to a cheap shag.
Seriously, whatever way you look at it, it's wrong and I think that deep deep down you guys know it's wrong, both morally and religiously.
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Sobi, my point was your selective choosing of what is right and wrong (see above referenced post). You say homosexuality is innate, yet the Qur'an explicitly forbids it as a sin. Refer to the verses that deal with Lot.
However, mutah is nowhere expounded in the Qur'an, the Holy Book of Guidance to all muslims. It is merely dealt with in Hadith, and later conjecture.
So, my point is, when something expressly stated in the Qur'an can be overlooked by our modern muslims, and marginalized as "innate", why are we even debating the merits or demerits if something that could or could not be in the Prophet SAW Sunnah? Is Sunnah greater than Qur'an?
Mathematical equation, 2 > 1 is a logical statement. If Qur'an is 2, and Sunnah is 1, what is more important?
Therefore, I suggest that rather than pinpointing our fellow muslims who go by the title "shia" or "sunni", we first practice to the letter and debate upon the validity of what is **GOD's **word, before bringing in Abu Hanifa, Sahih Bukhari, Sufi XYZ and the numerous thousand or so odd imams.
This may all be off topic, but I seriously don't enjoy faulting minor intricacies here and there when more universally glaring issues are trifled with by our ummah. The Qur'an may not be a human psychology or social welfare book, but if we claim to be Muslims, we ought to do it the justice of believing in it first, before going on to bigger and better things.
[7:80-81]
Lot said to his people, "You commit such an abomination; no one
in the world has done it before! "You practice sex with the men,
instead of the women. Indeed, you are a transgressing people."
[26:165-166]
"Do you have sex with the males, of all the people? "You forsake
the wives that your Lord has created for you! Indeed, you are
transgressing people."
