The ruling on aborting the fetus after the soul has been breathed into it
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The questioner : This questioner says: Shaykh, my wife is my cousin, and I have been blessed with five children from her. The first and second are healthy, and praise be to Allah. As for the third, he has some problems with his walking, and the shape of his face and head. The important point is that the doctors finally told us that he is not viable. So what do you advise? Or rather, let me finish the question. The face is broken behind the restriction of peace and consideration. As for the fourth child, he had problems with his glands, and his body was filled with fluids, and he lived for nine months. And the fifth child also has problems like the one before him. The doctors performed an analysis of the fluid surrounding the fetus to determine if he has the same problems as his two previous brothers. If he is like them, it is possible to induce labor. The question is: Is it permissible to induce this pregnancy before the end of the eighteenth week? Yes.
The Shaykh : You are worthy. The eighteenth week, yes. Since it is perceivable. If the doctors advised them. People must be. On the principles of the four. Eighteen weeks. The deviants to Islam, yes, good. It is not permissible to abort the fetus after four months, no matter what the situation is. And what doctors sometimes mention about the child being deformed is a great error, because the child is in a secure place, and between him and [the mother] is water, the placenta, and other things. I remember one of my relatives; the doctors told his wife that the child was deformed, and he was born healthy. Two days before my arrival, a woman gave birth and was hospitalized, and the doctors told him that the child was deformed and that there were no bones on his head or anything, and he was born healthy, the best of things, because it is due to separation. Therefore, it is not permissible under any circumstances after four months to abort the fetus, no matter what, meaning the soul has been breathed into it. A woman gave birth in the hospital, and the doctors told him that the child was deformed, and that there were no bones on his head or anything, and he was born healthy, the best of things, because it is due to separation. Therefore, it is not permissible under any circumstances after four months to abort the fetus. When do we?
Because the soul is breathed into it, so he is a living human being. So we say to this questioner: Keep your wife, and if Allah wills, you will not find anything wrong with the child in the pregnancy, you will not find anything in him, if Allah wills. And I believe that these deformities that we hear about a lot are perhaps among the causes of the pregnancy, meaning perhaps their cause is the pregnancy itself.
The Shaykh : You are worthy. The eighteenth week, yes. Since it is perceivable. If the doctors advised them. People must be. On the principles of the four. Eighteen weeks. The deviants to Islam, yes, good. It is not permissible to abort the fetus after four months, no matter what the situation is. And what doctors sometimes mention about the child being deformed is a great error, because the child is in a secure place, and between him and [the mother] is water, the placenta, and other things. I remember one of my relatives; the doctors told his wife that the child was deformed, and he was born healthy. Two days before my arrival, a woman gave birth and was hospitalized, and the doctors told him that the child was deformed and that there were no bones on his head or anything, and he was born healthy, the best of things, because it is due to separation. Therefore, it is not permissible under any circumstances after four months to abort the fetus, no matter what, meaning the soul has been breathed into it. A woman gave birth in the hospital, and the doctors told him that the child was deformed, and that there were no bones on his head or anything, and he was born healthy, the best of things, because it is due to separation. Therefore, it is not permissible under any circumstances after four months to abort the fetus. When do we?
Because the soul is breathed into it, so he is a living human being. So we say to this questioner: Keep your wife, and if Allah wills, you will not find anything wrong with the child in the pregnancy, you will not find anything in him, if Allah wills. And I believe that these deformities that we hear about a lot are perhaps among the causes of the pregnancy, meaning perhaps their cause is the pregnancy itself.
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قناة «فضيلة الشيخ محمد بن صالح العثيمين»، 61 - 64 رزقت بخمسة أطفال الأول والثاني سليمين والثالث عنده بعض المشاكل في المشي وغيره ونصحوني...؟ — youtube.com
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