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We had an anonymous email. I mean the name is there but he asked me to not mention it. You will see why when I read the question that a brother emails and says that his parents have put him into an arranged marriage situation.

After a long time of saying no to a lot of people, he eventually caved in, but he is now saying that he is actually not

attracted to the opposite gender. He is battling with same-sex attraction and he has resigned himself to living a celibate life to not acting on his impulses.

He is fine with all of this that he is not expecting to, you know, he's not asking for any type of justification for anything, but all he is saying now is that he does not know what to do because his parents have now for a long time been pressuring him.

Now finally he has acquiesced he wants to make his parents happy but he feels that he cannot

Fulfill the rights of his wife or be a husband in the intimate sense to his wife

Wama, a rusal, I mean,

kibenika I'll Allah

did jalan

no he ila ihim fess alu. No, he'll he'll e'e him.

Fess aluah al al-A-Lahd

the kering kuntum la t'latt al-amun. The response to this dear brother in Islam, you cannot, you cannot allow this marriage to take place and the situation is as you have

described. You are sinful to Allah in this case because this is not a

personal issue that you're battling with.

What you're battling with once you get married will affect your wife as well because you see

in this case the brother is saying and he explicitly said this that he has no attraction to the opposite gender.

He is only attracted to the same gender.

And I already spoke about this topic in a number of other previous lectures.

We're not, you know, he's not asking about that ruling.

He knows it is not allowed.

He's not gonna act upon it,

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