Sex Education for Muslim Students

Sexuality is taught in a moral vacuum 

Parents have the right to remove their children from sex education classes without affecting the rest of the academic program.  Parents have to remember to opt-out every school year, because sex education classes are taught every year in most places, from elementary school all the way through high school.  If more Muslim parents knew what is in the sex-education curriculum being taught at their child’s school, they would insist that their child be exempted from the classes.  Why should Muslim parents do this? Because public schools teach human sexuality in a moral vacuum without regard for the laws of Islam or any other religion.   The classes go far beyond the basic biological facts and present the haram and the halal without distinction. 

Our Sexuality is a Test

Do men think that they will be left alone on saying, “We believe.”, and that they will not be tested?  (Quran 29:2)

Allah uses every aspect of our lives to test us–even down to the innate biological urges He instilled in us.  We must eat to live, but what we eat may be halal or haram.  We must drink to live, and again we must choose between halal and haram.  With our sexual urges, we must also choose between halal and haram.

Halal and haram.  Right and wrong.  Good and evil.  Those who submit to their Lord and those who do not submit.   Despite all of the unfathomable complexity of the universe, Allah has made our role in it easy and simple for us to understand.  At the same time, the free will that Allah allows us and the Mercy He extends to us make possible the seemingly infinite range of human behaviors and choices.

So when it comes to the myriad possibilities of human sexual activity, Allah helps us keep it simple–sex is only permissible between husband and wife.  That’s it.  Oh, how that simple rule tests us.  How many excuses, rationalizations and justifications we can give for breaking it.