Re: Final Islamic Verdict on Gayness
As i empahzized mercy in if in any exceptional cases is left to the people with most insight and wisdom as are scholars, who are licenced to issue fatwas and recognise exceptional cirucmstances.
And Yes, many a time you would find hadiths in which the Prophet by-passed so-and-so sins of somebody and said they will still be in heaven because of so and so goods.
But pls note you will never ever, find such BY-PASSES for MAJOR SINNERS, SUCH AS FORNICATORS, KILLERS, BLACK MAGICIANS, LIARS, HYPOCRITES, OR GAYS.
If people dont know know to intrepret hadiths then leave the intrpretations to peolpe who do know.
It can be viewed as dangerous gaining more and more knwoledge but without understanding.
A lot of people dont know this but the pious sahabies after the time of the prophet, infact burned almost a quarter of sahih hadiths, because they feared they would be misunderstood.--Yes there were many more hadiths than we alreayd have...Maybe thats why you find very few hadiths with a chain linked back to H.Abu bakr.-
As RC rightly said in a previous thread, having partial knowledge is more dangerous than having no knwoeldge.
I wish people acted more repsonsibly in fields they are no experts atleast.
I wish people put-asides their egos atleasts somtimes and submit to what is right.
If anybody doubts on any of my statements in the Islamic Stance towards gayness, you are more than welcome go check me with a Sunni-scholar.