The Prohibition of Adopting a Girl and the Ruling on Adoption
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The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This questioner from France says: My mother adopted a girl seven years ago, and this girl is growing up. Am I a mahram (a relative one may not marry) to her?
The Shaykh:
If she breastfed her, if she breastfed her or one of her daughters breastfed her, then you would be a mahram to her. But if she did not breastfeed her and none of her close relatives breastfed her, then you are not a mahram to her, because she is a stranger whom she adopted, meaning she only raised her. Yes.
The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh.
The Shaykh:
Adoption in this sense is forbidden; adoption is not permissible in Islam. One says, "This is my son," when he is not his son. This is not permissible. Call them by their fathers' names. Allah the Exalted and Majestic says:[Al-Ahzab 33:5] Therefore, adoption is not permissible in Islam. It existed in the pre-Islamic age of ignorance, and then Islam abolished it. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This questioner from France says: My mother adopted a girl seven years ago, and this girl is growing up. Am I a mahram (a relative one may not marry) to her?
The Shaykh:
If she breastfed her, if she breastfed her or one of her daughters breastfed her, then you would be a mahram to her. But if she did not breastfeed her and none of her close relatives breastfed her, then you are not a mahram to her, because she is a stranger whom she adopted, meaning she only raised her. Yes.
The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh.
The Shaykh:
Adoption in this sense is forbidden; adoption is not permissible in Islam. One says, "This is my son," when he is not his son. This is not permissible. Call them by their fathers' names. Allah the Exalted and Majestic says:
Call them by [the names of] their fathers; it is more just in the sight of Allah. But if you do not know their fathers - then they are [still] your brothers in religion and those entrusted to you
ادْعُوهُمْ لِآبَائِهِمْ هُوَ أَقْسَطُ عِندَ اللَّهِ فَإِن لَّمْ تَعْلَمُوا آبَاءَهُمْ فَإِخْوَانُكُمْ فِي الدِّينِ وَمَوَالِيكُمْ
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المنتقى من أخبار سيد المرسلين25-05-1437هـ — alfawzan.live (50:17)
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