Making Me Believe in Make Believe (The Transgender Issue)

In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious the Most Merciful

Surah An-Nisa (119)

"I will mislead them and I will create in them false desires; I will order them to slit the ears of cattle and to deface the (fair) nature created by Allah." Whoever, forsaking Allah, takes Satan for a friend, hath of a surety suffered a loss that is manifest." (119)

As a Muslim I stand against all forms of oppression. Including the oppression of self. However, because mankind is weak, each and everyone of us have oppressed others as well as ourselves in some way throughout the course of our lives. Why? Because the attacks of Shaitan are well calculated and constant, crafty and subtle, obvious and inconspicuous. Sometimes we fail to recognize or realize that we are being seduced by Satan because he is cunning and devious and is consistently plotting and planning to attack us in any area of our lives where there is a weakness. In the same way that we have the power to disrupt someone’s life with a simple comment or suggestion, or even through visual stimulation of some kind, Satan attacks us mentally, emotionally, visually, and even through sound and the written word. One might ask how Satan attacks through sound or the written word while refusing to believe it to be possible, and so I ask you to consider the power that music has on influencing people to react with a variety of e