HADITH
Some background..
In all branches of Christianity there are two levels of divine
authority.
- There are God's ten commandments, carried by Moses down the
mountain, chiselled on tablets of stone.
- There are the four gospels, where the words and actions of
Jesus were written down by four of his diciples some decades after
Jesus' crucifixion.
The rest of the New Testament was written by various people
adjudged by most Christian churches to be "divinely inspired".
The Muslim religion accepts the Old Testament and the New
Testament as being divinely inspired. Mahommed was the
latest and greatest Prophet.
Jesus is considered to have
been a
prophet, not the son of God (Allah). The fact that Jesus is
nowhere
cited in the gospels as saying that he is the son of God only lends
weight to the Muslim case. References below to Lot
are
references to the same Lot who fled from Sodom as is told in the Old
Testament.
Likewise in the mainstream Moslem religion there are two recognized
levels of
divine authority.
- There is the Qur'an. Mahommed would go into the desert
surrounding Meccah to pray and Allah would "speak" to him. He
would
return
and recite the words Allah spoke, and a diciple would write it down
verbatim. The word Qur'an is the Arabic word for "recitals".
- There are the Hadith, a collection of stories about Mahommed
that were passed down by word of mouth, and then written two centuries
after his death.
The Qur'an (4:16) says the following on LGBTI
(Homosexuality).
If two men among you
are guilty of lewdness, punish them both. If they repent and
amend, leave them alone; for Allah is Oft-returning,. Most merciful.
Other condemnations of LGBTI are in the Qur'an at 7:80, 26:165, 27:54
and 29:28.
The Hadith is more explicit. At Abu Dawud 38:4448 it is written:
Narrated by Abdullah
Ibn Abbas: The Prophet (peace be upon him) said: If you find anyone
doing as Lot's people did, kill the one
who does it and the one to whom
it is done".
There are at least 5 Authorities (Diciples) with sixteen quotes on
LGBTI in the Hadith.
The
quotations
above were taken from wikiislam
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