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Dealing With Homosexual Urges: Yasir Qadhi to Muslim Student(220)

April 13, 2009

The following article is an edited transcription of a response that Sh. Yasir Qadhi gave to a question posed to him
in a class that he taught recently in London.

Q: Shaykh, I have unnatural urges and feel attracted to members of the same gender. I don’t know what to do about this, can you please give me some advice.

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Sex & the Ummah: Healing is Possible for Victims of Molestation Part IV-A

If you could not see this post before, you should be able to now.
If I am afflicted with any affliction, I praise Allah four times: I praise Allah that the affliction was not greater than it is; I praise Him when He gives me the patience to withstand the affliction; I praise Him for guiding me to the statement, “We belong to Allah and to Him we are returning”; and I praise Him for not making that affliction affect my religion.

Sex & the Ummah: Intimacy and Marital Problems for Victims of Molestation. Part II- C/D

The development of extreme personalities within the victims is a very crucial point to understand. Many victims of molestation do end up developing extreme personalities, like being extreme about discipline to the level of dictatorship, or extreme about cleanliness to the level of perfection, or extreme negligence, or extreme mood swings, or extreme dependence or complete lack of dependence.

Sex & the Ummah: Struggle of the Victims of Child Molestation. Part II- A/B

These molesters not only physically harm these girls, but in most cases cause severe emotional distress. Furthermore, to a large extent, what makes the damage more lasting is the reaction of the family. When some of these victims manage to put their fear and guilt aside, and gather up the courage to approach their families, most of the time (in ALL the cases I dealt with), the families have the most ridiculous and devastating reactions.


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