{"id":15092,"date":"2025-05-27T16:23:18","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T23:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/?p=15092"},"modified":"2025-05-27T16:23:18","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T23:23:18","slug":"what-does-islam-say-about-homosexuality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/27\/what-does-islam-say-about-homosexuality\/","title":{"rendered":"What does Islam say about homosexuality?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Islam categorizes sexual <strong>acts<\/strong>\u2014not sexual identities\u2014as permissible (halal) and prohibited (haram). Sexual relations are only permitted between a man and a woman in marriage bound by an Islamically valid contract; all else is illegitimate.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Islam thus prohibits sexual relations with members of the same sex. In the Qur\u2019an, the emblematic sin of Lot\u2019s people is their engagement in sexual behavior with other men. The Qur\u2019an states: And \u02f9remember\u02fa when Lot scolded \u02f9the men of\u02fa his people, \u02f9saying,\u02fa \u201cDo you commit a shameful deed that no man has ever done before? You lust after men instead of women! You are certainly transgressors\u201d [Qur\u2019an, 7:80-81].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islam categorizes sexual acts\u2014not sexual identities\u2014as permissible (halal) and prohibited (haram). Sexual relations are only permitted between a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islamqa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15093,"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15092\/revisions\/15093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}