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Topic: Abortion...when is it allowed?
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 abu.jameelah.m
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Bismillah wa salaatu wa salaamu ala arasoolillah wa 'ala alihe ashabihe ajma'een:
Is it permitted by shari'ah for a woman to have an abortion due to reasons that are outside of normal pregnancy. That is can she have an abortion because of rape, "potential" birth defects or deformaties because of an illness that she may have, or for physical reasons that potentially threaten her life. These are just some of the reasons that I can think of from what I have heard from the people in general.
Jazakallahu kulli khairun,
Min 'abdillah:
Abu Jameelah Michael Latham
min 'abdillah:
Abu Jameelah Michael Latham
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| iamasalafi
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http://www.fatwa-online.com/fataawa/marriage/parenthood/par001/0020908.htm
Seeking abortion due to inability to look after additional children
Question: There is a woman who has been unable to conceive; the doctors carried out some tests and discovered the eggs (in the womb) are dead. So they carried out an operation to implant (more) eggs, and now she is pregnant with four (babies). When the doctors discovered this, they informed her husband. He said that he does not want four, because his wife may become tired and overcome (by the pressure). So he said remove two and leave (the other) two. The doctors said they will not do that without a fatwa from the noble Shaykh Muhammad ibn Saalih al-?Uthaymeen; Keeping in mind that the duration of the pregnancy is three months, is it permissible for the doctors to carry out this operation, since they have put on hold (the operation) until they receive your verdict? (And) may Allaah reward you with good.
Response: Regarding the implanting of the eggs, we shall not discuss it because this (stage) has now passed. As for removing some of that which she is carrying in her womb, and whilst she has apprehensions (in proceeding with all four), then so long as the pregnancy has not passed four months there is no harm in this.
However, if the period of four months has passed, then it is not permissible to abort under any circumstances.
Shaykh Ibn ?Uthaymeen
Silsilah Kitaab ad-Da'wah (12), al-Fataawa - Volume 3, Page 126-127
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http://www.fatwa-online.com/fataawa/worship/jihaad/jih008/0020913.htm
The ruling regarding rape victims and their offspring
From: 'Abdul-'Azeez ibn 'Abdullaah ibn Baaz
To: The noble brother - A.K.A.J. - may Allaah facilitate for you your affairs
as-Salaamu 'alaykum wa Rahmatullaahe wa Barakaatuhu, to proceed:
Your correspondence reached me consisting of:
Your question about the children of the women who were raped in Bosnia and Herzegovina and your need for beneficial (Islaamic) books.
It pleases me to send you a copy of my book ((Majmoo' Fataawa wa Maqaalaat Mutanawwi'ah)) and ((al-'Aqeedah al-Waasitiyyah)) and the book ((Fat.h al-Majeed Sharh Kitaab at-Tawheed)) and ((al-Usool ath-Thalaathah)) and ((al-'Aqeedah at-Tahaawiyyah)) and ((at-Tahqeeq wal-Eedhaah)) - it is hoped Allaah will cause you to benefit from them (inshaa.-Allaah).
As regards the issue concerning the children, then it is obligatory upon the Muslims to take charge/custody of them and bring them up with Islaamic manners, and not leave them for the Christians and other than them, as Allaah (Subhaanahu wa Ta'aala) says:
{The believers, men and women, are Awliyaa. (helpers, supporters, friends, protectors) of one another...}, [Soorah at-Towbah, Aayah 71]
and He (sal-Allaahu `alayhe wa sallam) said:
((The Muslims in their mutual love, kindness and compassion, are like the human body where when one of its part is in agony the entire body feels the pain both in sleepness and fever)), [al-Bukhaaree and Muslim]
...as their ruling is that of orphans (without fathers), and Allaah has legislated kindness and charity to the orphans specifically.
I ask Allaah for you and for all the Muslims that he facilitates the affairs and guides to all that is good.
was-Salaam 'alaykum wa Rahmatullaahe wa Barakaatuhu
Majmoo' Fataawa wa Maqaalaat Mutanawwi'ah - Volume 8, Pages 265
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