How is the knowledge of doctors regarding the sex of the fetus reconciled with the saying of Allah the Exalted: {And He knows what is in the wombs}?
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Question:
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. The questioner asks: How do we reconcile the current knowledge of doctors regarding the male or female sex of the fetus with the noble verse[Luqman 31:34], which specifies the generality of the verse "what is in the wombs"?
Answer:
My brother, Allah knows the conditions of the fetus; it is not limited to whether it is male or female. He knows its conditions: whether it is wretched or happy, whether it will live or not live, He knows its lifespan, He knows its deeds, and He knows all its conditions. As for the doctors, when they invented these revealing machines and these revealing devices, they did not know it by themselves, merely that they perceived this without an intermediary. They perceived it through an intermediary, through X-rays. So there is no ambiguity in this, and this is one state among many states of the fetus that they do not know; no one knows it except Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He). Yes.
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. The questioner asks: How do we reconcile the current knowledge of doctors regarding the male or female sex of the fetus with the noble verse
and knows what is in the wombs. And
وَيَعْلَمُ مَا فِي الْأَرْحَامِ وَمَاAnswer:
My brother, Allah knows the conditions of the fetus; it is not limited to whether it is male or female. He knows its conditions: whether it is wretched or happy, whether it will live or not live, He knows its lifespan, He knows its deeds, and He knows all its conditions. As for the doctors, when they invented these revealing machines and these revealing devices, they did not know it by themselves, merely that they perceived this without an intermediary. They perceived it through an intermediary, through X-rays. So there is no ambiguity in this, and this is one state among many states of the fetus that they do not know; no one knows it except Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He). Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 2081 - كيف يُجمع بين علم الأطباء بجنس الجنين وبين قوله تعالى: {ويعلم ما في الأرحام}؟ - صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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