I really liked this halaqa but just a note, when the sheikh mentioned that it (sexuality) cannot be changed through counselling, I would like to point out that that’s not exactly completely true. There are cases where your sexuality can and actually does change through counselling and people like Charles Socarides (who are experts in the field of sexuality) have written extensively on the psychology of fetishes and other things regarding sexuality and they have a preoedipal (childhood) origin. In delving deep into the childhood and and background of what formed the fetish, the sexuality regarding what it is (whether it be feet fetishes, transsexualism, homosexuality, pedosexuality, masochism and et cetera) have origins in adolescence and childhood years especially during the developmental years and they can in fact be changed (nonetheless not everyone can get their sexuality changed, it really is factored on a number of things like the willingness of the client, the methodology being used in therapy, and pathologies in the brain and how strong they are). The part of the brain that is responsible for sexuality changes over time and it is not constant and sexual fluidity and change in sexual desires is highly malleable and changes greatly depending on a multitude of factors (i myself can even attest that my sexuality have changed throughout time). So to say that it cannot be changed is not accurate although I do understand where many people would get this idea that you cannot change sexuality and that it’s hardwired because this is a talking point which LGBT activists have successfully propagated (despite that this is scientifically inaccurate). James Phelan has published a bibliography of successful outcomes of sexual orientation change efforts. Other than that, this was a great halaqa, may Allah bless you all and reward all of you for this ameen.
@ 1:03:42 on the subject of beards; here's a thought: maybe in the non-Muslim countries if the Muslim is beardless it might help the Dawah because they could better fit in culturally.
