How Do We Reconcile Accepting the Marriage of Infertile People Yet Rejecting Homosexual Marriage as Muslims?

Answered by Shaykh Faraz Rabbani

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In the Name of Allah, the Merciful and Compassionate.

Ultimately, such matters revolve around a simple premise:

A Muslim is someone who has accepted the Truth claim of the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him); accepts the Quran as True revelation of Guidance from God, the Creator and Lord of the Worlds–and then accepts to submit (Islam) to this truth.

As such, Muslims take our moral guidance, rules, and values from the Quran and the teachings of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him).

From these teachings is that, marriage is only between men and women, and sexual relations are only permitted in marriage. Other sexual relations and actions are not permitted.

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And Allah is the giver of success and facilitation.
[Shaykh] Faraz Rabbani

Shaykh Faraz Rabbani spent ten years studying with some of the leading scholars of recent times, first in Damascus and then in Amman, Jordan. His teachers include the foremost theologian of recent times in Damascus, the late Shaykh Adib al-Kallas (may Allah have mercy on him), and his student Shaykh Hassan al-Hindi, one of the leading Hanafi fuqaha of the present age. He returned to Canada in 2007, where he founded SeekersGuidance to meet the urgent need to spread Islamic knowledge–both online and on the ground–in a reliable, relevant, inspiring, and accessible manner. He is the author of “Absolute Essentials of Islam: Faith, Prayer, and the Path of Salvation According to the Hanafi School (White Thread Press, 2004).” Since 2011, the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Center has named Shaykh Faraz one of the 500 most influential Muslims.