Chapter Three
Other Genders
Human Sexuality:
An Introduction to Deviancy
“Moroccan feminist Fitna Sabbah says in her book Woman in the Muslim
Unconscious , there is a disturbing conflict in the lands of Islam between sexual
libido and repression. Socially segregated from women—Arab men succumb to
homosexual behavior. But, interestingly enough, there is not a word for
“homosexual” in their culture in the modern Western sense. This is because
having pre-marital sex with boys or effeminate men is seen as the norm.”^42From what I have read, many Taliban fellows follow this perverted path.
Allah created the world in perfection and it is permeated with repetitive
patterns that reflect His creative (formative) Word. It is my hope that after
reading this chapter, the reader will understand the rightly-guided balance
between the reciprocal apposition of both male with female human forms.
Some may contend that taqua (piety) is purely an individual struggle to attain
a constant consciousness of Allah. However, I posit that the masculine and
feminine mindfulness of God are separate realms of dissimilar but
complementary cognition and that each is incomplete without the other by
Allah’s design. Therefore, and contrary to the musings of sundry pundits, I
submit that the summit of taqua is found only within the mosque of marriage
as archetypal Islamic unity. In other words, Marriage is the primary masjid of
guidance divinely authorized for raising the best of offspring for the position
of Khalipha or Vice-gerency.
“... among all established assemblies in Islam, no assembly is as loved and favored
by the Glorious and Dignified God as “the marriage ... an act that saves half of
one’s faith.”^4342
ISBN 10: 0080316263, 0080316255, 1984, Pergamon, Press, NY. (Dewey: 297/.19783442)
(^43) Wasa’il al-Shi’ah, vol.14, pp. 3- 4