Shin Musulunci yana da ra'ayi game da "zama dan luwadi"?

Does Islam have a concept for “being gay”?

A cikin al'adar Musulunci, babu wani kalma mai kama da ma'anar "homosexual", watau ra'ayin mutumin da yake jin sha'awar jima'i ta dindindin kuma ta keɓe ga jinsi ɗaya, ba tare da jin irin wannan sha'awar ga jinsi na gaba ba. Haka nan babu kalma ga "heterosexual". Malaman Musulunci sun yi amfani da kalmomi don bayyana mutumin da ya aikata aikin Qawm Lut. Duk da haka, wannan ba abin da Turawa ke nufi ba ne lokacin da suke amfani da kalmar "homosexual". A mahallin Yammacin Duniya, mutum "gay" shi ne wanda asalin sa ke ƙayyade ta sha'awar sa ga jinsi ɗaya. Bisa ga tunanin zamani na Yammaci, muhimmin hali da ba ya canzawa na mutum shi ne "sexual orientation" (tsarin sha'awar jima'i). Kamar yadda ake yawan cewa mutum na iya haihuwa da wani launin fata, don haka ya zama na wata kabila, haka nan ana cewa mutum na iya haihuwa da wani tsarin sha'awar jima'i, don haka ya zama na wata ƙungiyar asalin jima'i, misali "gay", "straight", "bi", da sauransu.

In the Islamic tradition, there is no analogous term for the concept of “homosexual,” i.e., the notion of a person who experiences stable and exclusive erotic attraction to the same sex while not feeling such attractions towards the opposite sex. There is also no term for “heterosexual.” Islamic scholars have employed terms to describe a person who committed the action of Qawm Lut. However, this is not what Westerners mean when they use the word “homosexual.” In the Western context, a “gay” person is one whose identity is defined by his attraction to the same sex. According to modern Western conceptions, an important and immutable characteristic of a person is his “sexual orientation.” Similar to popular notions of how a person can be born with a certain color of skin and, thus, belong to a certain race, a person can be born with a certain sexual orientation and, thus, belong to a sexual identity group, e.g., “gay,” “straight,” “bi,” etc.

Tsarin Musulunci, a akasin haka, ba shi da wani tunani na asalin jinsi irin na jima'i. Ko da yake yana iya yiwuwa mutum ya kasance an haife shi da ƙarin sha'awa da kwadayin jinsi ɗaya (ko ma yana da sha'awar a yi masa liwadi, kamar yadda ya faru da "ma'bun", wanda malamai na dā suka tattauna sosai a kansa), duk da haka, bisa ga rukunan Musulunci, wannan ba ya sa mutumin ya zama "ɗan luwaɗi" ko "gay" dangane da asalin ainihinsa, "wanene shi". Wannan saboda ainihin mutumin – a ciki da waje – ba a dogara da abin da mutumin yake so ba ko tunanin da zai iya zuwa masa. Rukunan jima'i na Musulunci masu alaƙa da asali duk suna kewaye da aiki, ba kawai sha'awa ba, misali, zani (mazinaci), da sauransu. Da zarar an aikata wani aiki kuma aka yanke wa mutum hukunci a kotun Musulunci da ta dace, to a lokacin ne kawai ya dace a yi amfani da irin waɗannan kalmomi wajen magana kan takamammun mutane. Amma wannan ba shi da alaƙa da zama "ɗan luwaɗi", wanda kalma ce ta Yamma ta zamani wadda aka ƙirƙira ta a ƙarni na 19 miladiyya (ƙarni na 13 hijira).

The Islamic tradition, in contrast, has no such conception of a sexual identity. While it may be possible that a person be born with more of an affinity and attraction to the same sex (or even have the desire to be anally penetrated, as in the case of the “ma’bun,” which the classical scholars discussed at length), nonetheless, as far as Islamic categories are concerned, this does not make that person a “homosexual” or “gay” in terms of one’s essential identity, “who one is.” This is because who a person ultimately is – internally and externally – is not based on what that person desires or what thoughts might occur to him. Islamic sexual categories having to do with identity all revolve around action, not mere desire, e.g., zani, etc. Once an act has been committed and a person is convicted for that in a proper Islamic court, then that is the only time it is appropriate to use such terms in referring to specific persons. But this has nothing to do with being a “homosexual,” which itself is only a modern Western term coined in the 19th century CE (13th century AH).