Re: No Namaz for Transexual
Few interesting comments:
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1- (I challenge anyone who disagrees to find a Sunni scholar who supports transgendering out of choice rather than correcting deformity)
2- That's a complex matter that requires years of study of the principles of Islamic law and of religious sources to answer. I'm too lazy to do that, as are most people, so the example you give would need a religious scholar to answer.
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Has anyone here ever stopped for a minute to think how much complicated they have made religion out to be? Have you ever thought that may be it's those ****cho mullahs/scholars who have made the religion so complicated that mainstream idiots don't look at the spirit of the religion for guidance but instead waste their time in semantics? It's exactly the kind of people like maddy here who are responsible for making a simple thing complicated and due to whom the world of Islam is backward, insecure, and ignorant.
Last I checked, an act of worship is between God and his creation, the banda or bandi, or Rahana or Rahan in this case. When I checked that last time, I also stumbled upon the fact that a mosque is also "house of God". These are the facts first and foremost. Anything else comes later and can never negate the spirit of these facts. Once you understand that you understand religion and why God created us to begin with.
Given those facts, where the f**** did these scholars come from to decide who can pray there or not? Mullah who gets paid for being the Imam is basically responsible for the up keep of the building and Imamat. All the rest of the matters that are private in nature between God and a man (or a man who was a woman previously) is none of his business.
BTW, THERE IS NO UNIFORM BODY whether Sunni or Shia or whatever else that decides one thing and everyone else follows it. For every given fatwa there is another fatwa from someone that contradicts it. So THERE IS NO OFFICIAL decree. e.g. While many people say non-zabiha is haram even if done by christians, many scholars claim that any meat cooked by christians or people of book is "totally cool". There is also no official criteria for one to be a scholar. I mean, there is no exam that you've to pass to be officially a scholar. I'm a scholar myself and I decree hereby that Rehan or Rehana can pray whenever his/her little hear pleases regardless of what's dangling or not in his/her pants. There. Maddy, you just found a sunni scholar who supports "transgendering out of choice" and going by the strength of the balls on you I suggest you undergo it yourself to find your place in this kayanaat.
If a scholar looks at the principles of tolerance, privacy, nature of act of worship (and you don't have to be a scholar to make sense out of it, btw) he/she can easily see how anyone who wants to pray in mosque can sooooo totally do it regardless of the fact that the penis dangling on him used to be a vagina.
Lastly, it only takes the idiots not to try to understand the nature of circumstances in favor of their outdated, orthodox, paranoid beliefs -- Does one gets up one day and decides to undergo an operation to change one's sex? If someone is telling me that someone goes through a sex change out of a mere choice or inkling of the heart then he is crazy. People don't get up one day and go through sex changes. There ought to be COMPELLING reasons, including harmonic imbalance, psychology, day to day living conditions, so on and so forth that eventually make people CROSS that boundary. And I truly believe that if anyone of us will ever be in that situation he/she will do the same thing. In other words, sex change operation is not friggin' hobby or a newly adopted fad, you idiots so Don't Assume.