سُوْرَةُ الْاَعْرَافِ
Surah Al-A'raaf (7) — Ayah 81
إِنَّكُمْ لَتَأْتُونَ ٱلرِّجَالَ شَهْوَةً مِّن دُونِ ٱلنِّسَآءِ ۚ بَلْ أَنتُمْ قَوْمٌ مُّسْرِفُونَ ﴿81﴾
Translation by Dr. Muhammad Muhsin Khan & Dr. Taqi-ud-Din al-Hilali
"Verily, you practise your lusts on men instead of women. Nay, but you are a people transgressing beyond bounds (by committing great sins)."
Word by Word — Arabic, Transliteration & Meaning
إِنَّكُمْ
innakum
Indeed, you
لَتَأْتُونَ
latatūna
you approach
ٱلرِّجَالَ
l-rijāla
the men
شَهْوَةًۭ
shahwatan
lustfully
مِّن
min
from
دُونِ
dūni
instead of
ٱلنِّسَآءِ ۚ
l-nisāi
the women
بَلْ
bal
Nay
أَنتُمْ
antum
you
قَوْمٌۭ
qawmun
(are) a people
مُّسْرِفُونَ
mus'rifūna
(who) commit excesses
Tafsir Ahsan al-Bayan — Hafiz Salahuddin Yusuf
Tafsir Ahsan al-Bayan is a well-known Quran commentary by Hafiz Salahuddin Yusuf, a renowned Salafi (Ahl al-Hadith) scholar from Pakistan. This tafsir explains the meanings of the Quran in accordance with the methodology of the Salaf (early righteous generations), relying on authentic sources and straightforward language. Due to its reliability and adherence to sound Islamic scholarship, the Saudi government publishes and distributes this tafsir among the Hujjaj (pilgrims) visiting the Haramain. The tafsir is originally written in Urdu, translated to English by tohed.com.
81. 1. That is, you approach men for this act of indecency purely for the sake of lust, and you have no other purpose that would be reasonable. In this respect, you were like the ignorant ones, or you mount one another purely for lustful gratification.
181. 2. Which is the original place for the fulfillment of lust and the real site for attaining pleasure. This points to the distortion of their nature, meaning Allah has made the private part of a woman the place and site for the satisfaction of a man's sexual pleasure, and these wrongdoers, having transgressed this, began to use the anus of men for this purpose.
81. 3. But now, when this deviation from sound nature and transgression of Allah's limits has been adopted by the 'civilized' nations of the West, it has become a fundamental human right, which no one has the right to prevent. Thus, now sodomy has legal protection there, and it is no longer considered a crime at all.
181. 2. Which is the original place for the fulfillment of lust and the real site for attaining pleasure. This points to the distortion of their nature, meaning Allah has made the private part of a woman the place and site for the satisfaction of a man's sexual pleasure, and these wrongdoers, having transgressed this, began to use the anus of men for this purpose.
81. 3. But now, when this deviation from sound nature and transgression of Allah's limits has been adopted by the 'civilized' nations of the West, it has become a fundamental human right, which no one has the right to prevent. Thus, now sodomy has legal protection there, and it is no longer considered a crime at all.
