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, 11 September 2023→The people of Sodom as the first homosexuals: Added another verse to confirm what might otherwise seem a doubtful traditional interpretation since fāḥishata can mean immorality in general and the next verse 28:29 lists other stuff too including cutting highways and evil in meetings, so might seem to claim only an unprecedented scale of wrongdoing.
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(I have added a section to 'Sociology' on the people of Lut being the first homosexuals, linking the main article which dives much deeper into this (and lists the evidence that homosexuality occurs naturally in all populations) - hopefully giving that page more traffic too!) |
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We have made it a Qur'an in Arabic, that ye may be able to understand (and learn wisdom). }} | We have made it a Qur'an in Arabic, that ye may be able to understand (and learn wisdom). }} | ||
=== The people of Sodom as the first homosexuals === | ===The people of Sodom as the first homosexuals=== | ||
{{Main|Lut}} | |||
Despite the overwhelming evidence (listed in the main article) that homosexuality occurs naturally in all populations, the Quran claims the first people to commit the act were in a town visited by Lut. | Despite the overwhelming evidence (listed in the main article) that homosexuality occurs naturally in all populations, the Quran claims the first people to commit the act were in a town visited by Lut. | ||
This is set | This is set long after the first humans (who appeared ~300,000 years ago),<ref>[https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/essential-timeline-understanding-evolution-homo-sapiens-180976807/ An Evolutionary Timeline of Homo Sapiens] - Smithsonian Institution magazine - 2 February 2021</ref> with the town described in the story being too advanced for a [[w:Hunter-gatherer|hunter-gatherer]] tribe society, so at the earliest is set after the [[w:Neolithic_Revolution|Agricultural Revolution]] in the following [[w:Neolithic|Neolithic]] period where these kind of settlements began to occur. Yet we are told: | ||
{{Quote|{{Quran|29|28}}|And | {{Quote|{{Quran-range|7|80|81}}|And [We had sent] Lot when he said to his people, "Do you commit such immorality as no one has preceded you with from among the worlds? Indeed, you approach men with desire, instead of women. Rather, you are a transgressing people."}} | ||
{{Quote|{{Quran-range|29|28|29}}|And [mention] Lot, when he said to his people, "Indeed, you commit such immorality as no one has preceded you with from among the worlds. Indeed, you approach men and obstruct the road and commit in your meetings [every] evil." And the answer of his people was not but they said, "Bring us the punishment of Allah, if you should be of the truthful."}} | |||
==Miracles and myths== | ==Miracles and myths== | ||