This week's selection from Islam Online is pretty strange, and involves transexuality and its relationship to Islamic law. Enjoy below the fold....
Question:
I have a very strange question. I'am 5 months ago turned to Islam alhamdulillah, I was a non-believer. Now I have a question about my past. There are some answers but they are for a person who is already Muslim. This is the question: I am a female woman in Holland but I was born as a boy, I have the mind and the feelings of a woman here in the Netherlands and also in outer countries they have operations to make this possible. I know that this is haram for a Muslim, but the problem is that I have this operation done when I was not a Muslim. Now I'm years later turned to Islam and this operation can not turn back. Now the question is: Does I bear the sin I have done in the past and can I be a Muslim woman now that I maybe marry; I am really a complete woman and wear the hijab. I hope you can answer me.Answer
In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
All praise and thanks are due to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon His Messenger.
Islam does away with everything that went before it. Now you have no option but to continue to live as you are right now and don't think about the past. As for the marriage issue, if you, as you said, ARE COMPLETELY A WOMAN, i.e. you are capable of getting pregnant and having children, then absolutely you can get married. You should not tell anybody about this operation unless it something related to your own health.
Allah Almighty knows best.
Have a good weekend!
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I'm I reading this wrong or does Islam Online have a really bad understanding of female anatomy.
i suspect that they were dodging...this 'believer' seems pretty self-deluded.
So the ability to bear children is the defining property of a woman? That would mean that most women cease being women some time around age 50.
So the ability to bear children is the defining property of a woman? That would mean that most women cease being women some time around age 50.
these are the debates that you can have with roman catholics re: whether sterile people should be able to marry.
This is how Iran is dealing with gay men right now: Homosexual men are spared the death penalty, under the Ayatolla's current rulings, *if* they undergo gender reassignment. Although it is a common cultural phenomenon to allow homosexuality to exist as long as the gender aligns (e.g., India's hajiras), this is a sort of new twist in Islam, wherein homosexuality has traditionally been age differentiated rather than gender differentiated. Although to be clear, the forms of age differentiated homosexuality in Muslim cultures predated the Islamic culture, which had to be interpreted to tolerate the older forms of homosexuality, given that the Koran, following the patterns in the Torah which inspired it, condemns it.
"...I am really a complete woman..."
"...if you, as you said, ARE COMPLETELY A WOMAN, i.e. you are capable of getting pregnant and having children,..."
They gave a nice answer, the question was poor.
To be a victim is to have status in certain influential circles. The person asking the question is obviously seeking status (observe the use of a public venue to ask the question).
Evidently, being Muslim yields extra status points these days.