The Ruling on Test-Tube Babies and Seeking Children
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Question:
May Allah reward you. The questioner says: Please issue a ruling on the medical practice of test-tube babies. Is exposing the 'awrah (part of the body that must be covered) for the purpose of treatment to seek children among the dire necessities that permit such exposure? Is seeking children a pressing need or a dire necessity? And does a pressing need take the place of a dire necessity in this case? May Allah reward you with good.
Answer:
Test-tube babies are a form of medical frivolity. This is medical frivolity, and it is not permissible to do. Because there are precautions against it. First, exposing the 'awrah without a dire necessity. Giving birth to children is not a dire necessity if it is facilitated by Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He).
So this is what is required. But if it does not happen except through the test-tube method, then it is not permissible because of the exposure of the 'awrah. Second, who guarantees the lineage of this child? The doctors have their own interests, and their task is to take the money, perform the operation, and have it succeed so that they can take the money. Who guarantees us that this semen is from the husband?
They are not to be trusted. They are suspected because they want the money, they want the cash, and they want their operation to succeed. That is what they want. So who guarantees that this child is from the husband's semen?
So in this, lineages are lost. As for seeking offspring, Allah (Mighty and Majestic) has established lawful paths for it. He established marriage and the connection between the spouses. If childbirth is delayed, it is treated. There are medicines. If this condition benefits from medicines, praise be to Allah. If this condition does not benefit from medicines, then this is sterility. Allah (Mighty and Majestic) says:[Ash-Shuraa 42:50] So you must exert the lawful means. As for resorting to matters that have precautions and evil, do not resort to them?
May Allah reward you. The questioner says: Please issue a ruling on the medical practice of test-tube babies. Is exposing the 'awrah (part of the body that must be covered) for the purpose of treatment to seek children among the dire necessities that permit such exposure? Is seeking children a pressing need or a dire necessity? And does a pressing need take the place of a dire necessity in this case? May Allah reward you with good.
Answer:
Test-tube babies are a form of medical frivolity. This is medical frivolity, and it is not permissible to do. Because there are precautions against it. First, exposing the 'awrah without a dire necessity. Giving birth to children is not a dire necessity if it is facilitated by Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He).
So this is what is required. But if it does not happen except through the test-tube method, then it is not permissible because of the exposure of the 'awrah. Second, who guarantees the lineage of this child? The doctors have their own interests, and their task is to take the money, perform the operation, and have it succeed so that they can take the money. Who guarantees us that this semen is from the husband?
They are not to be trusted. They are suspected because they want the money, they want the cash, and they want their operation to succeed. That is what they want. So who guarantees that this child is from the husband's semen?
So in this, lineages are lost. As for seeking offspring, Allah (Mighty and Majestic) has established lawful paths for it. He established marriage and the connection between the spouses. If childbirth is delayed, it is treated. There are medicines. If this condition benefits from medicines, praise be to Allah. If this condition does not benefit from medicines, then this is sterility. Allah (Mighty and Majestic) says:
and He renders whom He wills barren
وَيَجْعَلُ مَن يَشَاءُ عَقِيمًا
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، ما حكم طفل الأنابيب؟ وهل كشف العورة من أجل التداوي لطلب الولد من الضرورات المبيحة لكشفها؟ — youtube.com
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