Some women may be tempted by looking at other women; is it obligatory for them, in this case, to lower their gaze?

Question:
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner says: There are some women, and may Allah protect us, who are tempted by looking at other women, and this may lead to their falling in love with them. Is it obligatory for them, in this case, to lower their gaze?

Answer:
There is no doubt about this, based on the explicit text of the Qur'an: . Everything that involves fitnah (trial, discord or temptation), whether looking at men or women, she must lower her gaze from it. It has been mentioned that in the current time, there has become love between women and love between girls, and this is what the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) informed us would happen in the last of times: men will be satisfied with men and women with women, and lesbianism will spread among women. This is the result of women mixing with one another, of frequenting going out, and of the prevalence of these outcomes.