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ajiss-352	Vaid, Mobeen	Can Islam Accommodate Homosexual Acts? Qur’anic Revisionism and the Case of Scott Kugle	2017.0	53	.pdf	application/pdf	24917	1061	57	This maxim runs counter to the one that applies to human actions in general, namely, al-aṣl fī al-ashyāʾ al-ibāḥa (actions are permissible by default unless specifically prohibited by the Sacred Law). Indeed, in the realm of sexuality, the cardinal legal axiom (qāʿidah fiqhīyah) regarding sexual behavior in Islamic law is al-aṣl fī al-abḍāʿ al-taḥrīm (i.e., all sexual acts are prohibited by default except those explicitly permitted by the sacred law).44 Accordingly, even persons who ex- perience unelected and exclusive same-sex attractions – such that marriage, for instance, may not be a viable option given their lack of any erotic attraction to the opposite sex – are nevertheless subject to the law’s objective parameters and required to observe abstinence if necessary.	cache/ajiss-352.pdf	txt/ajiss-352.txt