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Abortion is allowed if there's any threat to mother's life OR there's any serious mental or physical defect in baby OR for rape cases.Hi,
I was hoping that someone that was knowledgeable about the Moslem faith would be able to explain their teachings about abortion. I realize that there might be internal debate and a diverse array of opinions, but speaking in generalities is fine.
Thank you!
Eric
Abortion is allowed if there's any threat to mother's life OR there's any serious mental or physical defect in baby OR for rape cases.
NOT allowed just because u don't want a child e.g., for finiancial reasons etc.
[Quran:6:151] Say: "Come, I will rehearse what God hath (really) prohibited you from": Join not anything as equal with Him; be good to your parents; kill not your children on a plea of want;- We provide sustenance for you and for them;- come not nigh to shameful deeds. Whether open or secret; take not life, which God hath made sacred, except by way of justice and law: thus doth He command you, that ye may learn wisdom.
[17:031] Kill not your children for fear of want: We shall provide sustenance for them as well as for you. Verily the killing of them is a great sin.
[60:012] O Prophet! When believing women come to thee to take the oath of fealty to thee, that they will not associate in worship any other thing whatever with God, that they will not steal, that they will not commit adultery (or fornication), that they will not kill their children, that they will not utter slander, intentionally forging falsehood, and that they will not disobey thee in any just matter,- then do thou receive their fealty, and pray to God for the forgiveness (of their sins): for God is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.
Honestly, i think the issue of fetal diseases and anomalies is very confusing and i think the best thing to do is to ask a scholar of Islam as the ruling maybe different from case to case or according to the disease. What is the criterion for the diseases in which abortion could be allowed? The only thing i can do is to give you a fatwa from a Muslim scholar, though i'd like to know what brother Benign will say.may i ask if you have any guidance as to what counts as "serious mental or physical defect"?
may i ask if you have any guidance as to what counts as "serious mental or physical defect"?
The halal or permissible deeds depend on our intentions. The intention part means nothing with haram deeds.Then i would say make ur own decision on that keeping GOD in mind, because deeds depend on our INTENSIONs.
Good point, Doctors may think that there is no chance but thing that doctors have thought to be impossible have happened before, I say that it is better to have the kid even if he is born with something that will make him suffer, because his/her life was given by God and if it is God's will he can choose to let them live or die, but we are not so smart that we can tell what the childs future will be. The main thing is a murder is a murder whether commited against someone who hated their life or loved it, the degree of suffering doesn't have an effect on how wrong it is.However, doctors occasionally misdiagnose some cases.
I would like to stress here that the fetal anomalies should be taken into consideration if they are proved to exist before four months of gestation (the breathing of life into the fetus). However, anomalies that license abortions do not include blindness, deafness or dumbness because these are disabilities with which people have been quite compatible. Many people throughout human history had such disabilities but they did not hinder them from participating in the various activities of life. On the contrary, some of the disabled were genius and we still remember them till now.
The halal or permissible deeds depend on our intentions. The intention part means nothing with haram deeds.
Halal means permissible, Haram; forbidden according to Islam of course.sorry, what's the difference between halal deeds and haram deeds?
I fully agree. If the baby was diseased, then also people shouldn't forget that God heals whom He will.Good point, Doctors may think that there is no chance but thing that doctors have thought to be impossible have happened before, I say that it is better to have the kid even if he is born with something that will make him suffer, because his/her life was given by God and if it is God's will he can choose to let them live or die, but we are not so smart that we can tell what the childs future will be. The main thing is a murder is a murder whether commited against someone who hated their life or loved it, the degree of suffering doesn't have an effect on how wrong it is.
Read the Qur'an and eliminate the ill informed middle men. Dawood's version is the best translation I've read.
dont listen to benign, she off top comes off as a feminist renegade with her own agenda, abortion is forbidden in any way, that is proven with the quotes she gave, "want" referrs to not "wanting" to give birth to a baby you got from an unwanted reason.
any woman who has abortion I believe should be locked up until they die, or have the favor done for them ASAP.
abortion is murder, and the women who support it for ANY reasson are dispicable.
any woman who has abortion I believe should be locked up until they die, or have the favor done for them ASAP.
abortion is murder, and the women who support it for ANY reasson are dispicable.