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Sodomy is Kufr (disbelief)

Sodomy is Kufr (disbelief) 

Amir ul-Mu’minÄ«n ‘Ali (a.s.) has said:

“Sodomy is a Greater Sin and carries punishment when a man mounts upon another man but does not penetrate. If he penetrates, it is kufr”.

(al-Kāfi)

It means that one who considers sodomy legal is a Kafir, because to consider sodomy illegal is one of the requirements of faith. And one who disbelieves in any of the requirements of faith becomes a Kafir. However if anyone commits this act knowing that it is Harām is deserving of punishment which is similar to the one meted out to kuffar, and it is eternal.

Huzaifa ibn Mansur says:

“I enquired regarding sodomy which is a Greater Sin from Imam Ja’far as-Sadiq (a.s.)”. The Imam replied:

“To press the sexual organ between the thighs in an illegal way”

I asked, “Who is the person who commits sodomy”.

Imam (a.s.) replied;

“One who has disbelieved in what Allah has revealed to his Messenger (the Holy Qur’an).”

(Wasa’il ul-Shia)

Imam Ja’far as-Sadiq (a.s.) was queried by Abu Basir regarding the verse:

 “So when our decree came to pass, we turned them upside down and rained down upon them stones, of what has been decreed, one after another.”

(Surah HÅ«d 11:82)

 Imam (a.s.) explained:

“There is no one who leaves this world while considering sodomy Halāl, but that Allah hits him with one of the stones that had fallen on the people of Hazrat Lut (a.s.).”

It is reported in Wasa’il ul-Shia that a person who believes sodomy to be Halāl and commits it several times and does not repent; at the time of his death Allah hits him with one of the stones that had rained upon the people of Lut (a.s.). His death is brought about by the impact of this stone, but people do not see it (the stone).

(Tafsir al-Qummi)

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