The Ruling on the Procedure of Test-Tube Babies
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The questioner:
A questioner asks: What is the ruling on performing the test-tube baby procedure?
The Shaykh:
We do not advise it, because it is not safe. These are lineages and these are wombs, so it is not safe. Perhaps a stranger will enter among the people as if he were a relative, or as if he were a brother or a son. This is never to be trusted, so we do not advise it.
The questioner:
What if the one performing it is a Muslim woman?
The Shaykh:
She would err. And if humans err, these are secret matters that Allah placed directly in the wombs of women from the loins of men, and no one is to handle them, because a human is a person who errs and hits the mark.
A questioner asks: What is the ruling on performing the test-tube baby procedure?
The Shaykh:
We do not advise it, because it is not safe. These are lineages and these are wombs, so it is not safe. Perhaps a stranger will enter among the people as if he were a relative, or as if he were a brother or a son. This is never to be trusted, so we do not advise it.
The questioner:
What if the one performing it is a Muslim woman?
The Shaykh:
She would err. And if humans err, these are secret matters that Allah placed directly in the wombs of women from the loins of men, and no one is to handle them, because a human is a person who errs and hits the mark.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، محاضرات في العقيدة والدعوة-084-مسائل النوازل|صالح الفوزان|كبار العلماء — youtube.com (1:15:52)
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