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IMAM DAAYIEE ABDULLA: Thank you for inviting me Jenny. What I wanted to say is that I do
same sex marriages and have been doing so for the last thirteen years, I'm not the only
Imam that does so. I find that the process has been one of dealing with the interpretation
and it's always about interpretation and the subjective reasoning that goes behind it.
Just speaking about the Sheikh there, salaam to the Sheikh, that his comments saying that
it is no, I think that he definitely makes a subjective judgment saying that it is no
because I read the same Koran. He's forgetting about the cultural and historical
framework into what was male and what was not male within historical framework of that.
I like for him to also look at Sura 24, 30 to 32, where in 24, 31 it clearly states there
that people should marry from the single among them without definition as to what the gender
should be. The Koran itself does not say that in clearly
in that same way, definitively it must be female or male, but that the person should
seek someone who is single because there's a prohibition against having *** relationships
with someone who is already committed in a marriage.
JENNY BROCKIE: Sheikh Mohamadu, what do you think about the Imam performing same sex marriages?
SHEIKH MOHAMADU SALEEM: They know for sure from their own conscience that such marriage
is not valid at the moment. We are talking about Islamic traditions. Islamic traditions,
it is not valid as an issue in any Court of law in the whole world, in the Sharia Court,
it will be thrown out of the Court in just one minute.
JENNY BROCKIE: Okay, Imam Daayiee, your reaction?
SHEIKH MOHAMADU SALEEM: He is giving, he is giving false hope, he is giving a false hope
or false impression that these people are married according to Islam, that is not true,
that is not true at all.
JENNY BROCKIE: Okay, I'll get a response. I'm very interested in this because I haven't
heard a debate like this before.
IMAM DAAYIEE ABDULLA: Well Jenny, I just wanted to say that he's always talking about tradition
but those traditions in terms of just heterosexual marriage, it was based upon property and power
and tribal relationships. It had nothing to do with just because of the situation of sex
and those things. The Koran clearly states that just because you get married and have
sex, you're not guaranteed you're going to have children - frequently the interpretation
is that it's all about procreation, but it's not, it's about relationships between two
human beings and the commitment between them.