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Welcome back to another Q&A on our Tuesday episodes and as usual, please continue to send me your emails in your questions at askyq at epicmessjid.org

That is askyq1word at epicmessjid1word.org

And please try your best to keep the questions as generic as possible and make sure that you just mention a name that I can mention online and also a place that you are emailing or from so that I can also mention geographic location.

And once again, please do understand I cannot respond to individual emails.

I am Alhamdulillah inundated with hundreds of emails and I have to simply choose the ones for our broad-based audience to answer here in this lecture.

So I cannot answer specific emails or else I don't have the time to do the Alhamdulillah and Alhamdulillah.

In any case inshallah today, disclaimer that this is a Q&A that will be somewhat sexually explicit and so viewer discretion is advised and I would suggest that only those who are above the age of 15 listen to this or if they are mature 13, 14 euros old, definitely not no need for the younger children to listen to this one.

So this is an email that I got from sister Alia and she is graduating from a high school here in America. She is in her final year of high school so she is a teenager young lady.

And she is saying that in her syllabus in her school there is a lot of discussion regarding the LGBTQ movement and issues and in particular she says regarding transgender issues.

And she emails saying that she understands that Islam has its own views on the subject and so to summarize her email she wants to know how we as Muslims should view this entire spectrum and also how she as a person in a particular high school here in America, how she should interact with a lot of her classmates are identifying with one of these letters and she is wondering what should she do as a Muslim in a high school.

And in particular she says that the trans question has really been brought up quite a lot in her class and there are people that identify within this spectrum and so she is emailing me for some spiritual advice and Islamic illumination in this topic.

Now this is a very very very sensitive topic these days as we are all aware these types of discussions are easily misunderstood and people that are very rich and powerful and famous have been what is called cancelled because of saying things that are deemed to be politically incorrect.

And this shows us the sensitivities around this entire topic in fact many are pointing out that these sensitivities are actually bordering on curbing or not allowing a discussion of an academic nature even.

And very famous professors have been disinvited from universities simply because they might have tweeted something about the subject that is deemed to be controversial as we are also aware even very famous authors the author of the Harry Potter series for example also tweeted something that was deemed to be incorrect and it will cause a huge debate online.

And this is a subject that our younger students our next generation is asking and so we cannot remain quiet to be honest and I seek Allah's help and protection from any evil that might happen in the end of the day.

We as especially those who have trained in the Islamic sciences it is our duty and responsibility to clarify to mankind regardless of the consequences.

So I ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for his hidai antofiq and I ask Allah for his protection in the end of the day it is our job to clarify what Islam says.

And if we are truly sincere to the religion of Allah then we must take in the criticism of the criticizers and face the consequences but at the same time that does require Allah does not ask us to be foolish.

Allah asks us to be wise and to speak in a way that billati hi asan wa jadil hum billati hi asan.

I say all of this because we are also seeing a counter reaction and this is a preview to the entire conversation and the entire question.

What we are seeing is an entire spectrum of response to this question of the LGBTQ and how we deal with it.

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