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In our day, there is a great danger that threatens
the world’s social fabric. In the same way as a virus
kills the human body, this danger brings about subtle social
collapse. This danger is the degradation of those moral values
that help to maintain a healthy society. Homosexuality, prostitution,
pre-marital and extra-marital sex, sexual misdemeanors, pornography,
sexual harassment and the increase of sex-related illnesses,
are a number of important indications of the collapse of moral
values.
These remain continual matters of public concern.
A great number of people are not aware of the danger that
is increasing around them, and mistakenly consider it as normal.
But, statistics show that, with every passing day, the extent
of the danger is growing unperceived.
For societies without religious and moral values AIDS
has become a growing and epidemic problem.
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The proportion of sex-related illnesses is an
important criterion to help indicate the extent of the problems
facing humanity. According to the records of the World Health
Organization (WHO), sex-related diseases forms one of the
largest segments of illnesses. These reports show that of
an estimated 333 million new cases of sexually transmitted
diseases occur in the world every year.18
In addition, AIDS continues to be the most serious problem.
Statistics of WHO indicate that the total number of AIDS deaths
since the beginning of the epidemic have been 18.8 million
persons.19 The report of the World
Health Organization for the year 2000 sums up the situation
succinctly: “AIDS is unique in
its devastating impact on the social, economic and demographic
underpinnings of development.”20
The growing prevalence of homosexuality over the past
few years is a frightening development. This phenomenon
was mentioned in the hadiths of our Prophet (saas) fourteen
centuries ago.
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Among the most frightening developments is the
spread of homosexuality. In some countries, homosexuals can
be legally married, enjoy the social benefits of marriage,
and form associations and organizations. Around the world
their activities show their opposition to religious faith
and their antagonism to religious values. This is a characteristic
of our age; such things have never happened before since the
time of the Prophet (saas).
The audacity of today’s homosexuals makes
one think of the end of the people of Lut who were noted for
their homosexuality. As it says in the Qur’an, when
they flamboyantly rejected Lut (as)’s invitation to
the right path, Allah destroyed the city and its people by
a great disaster. As a reminder, the remains of this perverse
society still lie beneath the water of Lut’s Lake (the
Dead Sea).
It is clear that the hadiths describing the End
Times and its moral degeneration are coming true today.
 
Every day newspaper pages contain reports that point
to the collapse of social morality, while many regard
these developments as merely normal.
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hadith indicates that the absence of the shame of prostitution
is a sign of the Last Day.
The
Prophet (saas) says that the spread of extra-marital sexual
relationships in society is a sign:
The
weakening of moral values and a sense of shame is described
in these words:
It is interesting to note that, recently, scenes
of prostitution captured by hidden cameras have been broadcast
on television channels. Prostitutes have sexual intercourse
with their customers in open view in the middle of the street.
This is another sign of the Last Day revealed in a hadith;
millions of people have witnessed this sign. These hadiths
show that tolerating homosexuality as a normal way of life
is an important sign of the period before the Last Day.
18. WHO, “Young People
and Sexually Transmitted Diseases”, Fact sheet no:186,
December 1997,
http://www.who.int/inf-fs/en/fact186.html
19. WHO, “Report on the Global HIV/ AIDS Epidemic”,
June 2000, http://www.unaids.org/ epidemic_update/report/Epi_report.htm#aids
20. WHO, “Report on the Global HIV/ AIDS Epidemic”,
June 2000, http://www.unaids.org/ epidemic_update/report/Epi_report.htm#aids
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