Comments on: Heba Kotb goes global

By: Mueen Zawi

Mueen Zawi — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 11:09:46 +0000

please tell me, how many sessions did you need monthly and how many months did it last
I`m so desperate.

By: Rasheed Eldin

Rasheed Eldin — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 13:42:36 +0000

Salam, Fatima and thanks for sharing your opinion. This is a matter on which Islamic scholars have various statements. We should separate between what is established with evidence, and what could be subjective according to individuals and societies over time.

In our context here, since we are calling people away from sex outside marriage, it would be inappropriate to start prohibiting acts between husband and wife, other than what is proven through the hadith (i.e. anal).

What you find disgusting, you will obviously not do, but other people who don’t see it that way are free to act according to what makes their marital life more fulfilling. The argument you make could just as easily be extended inappropriately to make all or most sexual intimacy “disgusting”.

By: fatima

fatima — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 10:03:24 +0000

how can oral sex ever be halal? it is unnatural to do such filthy acts with the same mouth that you read the glorious quran with,that you pray to almighty allah with. i mean individually it is wrong and shouldn’t be allowed,concerning this i think Dr. Heba Kotb is dearly wrong but otherwise on her homosexuality topic i think she is more or less right that it is indeed a disease of the mind not the heart.

By: mueen zawi

mueen zawi — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 17:52:55 +0000

Hi there Johnson,
did you really go to her and got the benefit

I really wanna know if that works or not

By: Rasheed Eldin

Rasheed Eldin — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 01:08:24 +0000

Salam brother,

Thanks for your feedback, and I’m sorry to know my words caused you hurt. At the same time, I would suggest not to take things personally, when what was intended was an analysis of someone else’s reported claim (that “homosexuality is a disease”), and on the whole I was disputing that way of talking about it.

I would also respectfully draw your attention to two matters concerning my point about it possibly being a “symptomatic of a disease of the heart”:

1. The distinction between psychological and spiritual is not absolute, as your reply suggested. The two are intimately linked. Indeed, in Arabic they refer to psychologists as “scientists/doctors of the Nafs”, which is exactly how we refer to the soul in Islamic contexts. The Sufi heritage contains a great deal of what would now be termed psychology.

2. I mean no disrespect when I state clearly that being a pious, practising Muslim does not guarantee being free of diseases of the heart. I too am a practising Muslim, yet I know very well that my heart is very full of diseases, which I must struggle to purify it from. This is nothing specific to the affliction of same-sex attraction. May Allah grant us purity of heart in this most blessed of months, ameen.

By: Imam

Imam — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 12:07:09 +0000

Mr.Rasheed Eldin wrote the following sentence:

“Spiritually, SSA could also be described as symptomatic of a “disease of the heart”

Mr.Rashed Eldin,I am a muslim guy with SSA.I am 28 years old and I have these SSA since I was 4 years old.I consider myself a pious muslim Alhamdullah and I pray all the 5 prayers mostly in Jamaa in masjid and I read Quran daily.I am close to Islam and close Allah teachings all my entire life and moreover I do NOT have a disease in my heart.
Being ssa does NOT mean having a disease in my heart.It’s a psychological matter not spiritual.
I am extremely hurt by your words and this is the second time someone from your community/followers to describe me having a disease in my heart although I am sure I don’t.

By: Nick Grashof

Nick Grashof — Fri, 08 May 2009 19:19:58 +0000

Dear Ms. Kobt, it is great guilt not to accept homosexuality and to judge ethical and political questions under a limited religious view and not to be open to resolve problems. Exploitation and repression, pollutzion of the environment and killing and slaughting animals, keeping animals captured is great guilt, too.

Kind regards
Nick Grashof

By: Rasheed Eldin

Rasheed Eldin — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:37:57 +0000

The fact that the Qur’an forbids homosexual acts does not entail that homosexuality should be described as a “disease” – it’s a more subtle matter, as I discussed in the article above.

By: s sheikh

s sheikh — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 21:53:09 +0000

she is right saying homosexuality is a diease. Qur’an reject such activities and it is punishable.

By: Taleb Haqq

Taleb Haqq — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:37:23 +0000

There is an absolute difference between having a runny nose and going out and having sex with a guy…if you can’t see the difference between the two then I’m afraid our dialogue is useless.