Religion desk: In Islamic law, people of the third gender will get ancestral property according to their dominant sex or strong sexual characteristics, said Islamic preacher and negotiator Dr. Zakir Naik.

Zakir Naik discussed the rights of third gender people in ancestral property in response to questions from the audience at an open discussion event in Pakistan recently. A video of the discussion was released on his verified Facebook page on Friday (October 11).

Dr. Zakir Naik said, every child is born with its gender identity. Some people have birth defects that make it difficult to identify their gender identity naturally. But through medical examination it is possible to know their dominant sex or strong sexual characteristics. According to it, a person of the dominant sex male of the third gender, as a son, will share in his father's wealth like any other son. A third gender person whose dominant sex is female, as a daughter will share in the father's wealth like other girls.

Transgender and the third gender are not the same and trying to change gender is forbidden in Islam, Dr. clarified. Zakir Naik. He said, transgenders are those who try to change their gender. After being born as a boy wants to become a girl, after being born as a girl tries to become a boy. Such gender change is not legal in Islam.

The well-known Islamic preacher and negotiator Dr. Zakir Naik. At this time, he is participating in various religious discussions in different provinces of the country. The audience gets a chance to ask him direct questions during the programs.

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Zakir Naik has been living in Malaysia since 2016 due to legal complications in his native India. That year there was a terrorist attack in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. India's National Investigation Agency (NIA) filed a case against the Islamic preacher under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code (now the Indian Penal Code), alleging that one of the terrorists involved in the attack had been influenced by Zakir Naik's speech on YouTube.