Is it permissible to undergo a procedure for family planning and selecting the sex of the fetus?
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Question:
May Allah reward you, Your Eminence, father. The questioner says: I am a woman who wishes to undergo a procedure outside this country. It is a procedure for family planning and selecting the sex of the fetus so that the child born is male. It involves separating male sperm from female sperm so that she becomes pregnant with a boy. Is this permissible?
Answer:
This is among the fabrications and the work of some doctors who want to promote their ideas to people. This is absolutely not acceptable. Male and female children are in the hand of Allah (Exalted and Majestic is He)[Ash-Shuraa 42:49] [Ash-Shuraa 42:49-50] meaning He makes them two forms: males and females. So this is up to Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He). As for their claim that they are able to form the fetus so that it becomes male or female, that is among superstitions. Yes.
May Allah reward you, Your Eminence, father. The questioner says: I am a woman who wishes to undergo a procedure outside this country. It is a procedure for family planning and selecting the sex of the fetus so that the child born is male. It involves separating male sperm from female sperm so that she becomes pregnant with a boy. Is this permissible?
Answer:
This is among the fabrications and the work of some doctors who want to promote their ideas to people. This is absolutely not acceptable. Male and female children are in the hand of Allah (Exalted and Majestic is He)
He gives to whom He wills female [children], and He gives
يَهَبُ لِمَن يَشَاءُ إِنَاثًا وَيَهَبُ(49) To Allah belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth; He creates what he wills. He gives to whom He wills female [children], and He gives to whom He wills males. (50) Or He makes them [both] males and females, and He renders whom He wills barren. Indeed, He is Knowing and Competent.
لِمَن يَشَاءُ الذُّكُورَ أَوْ يُزَوِّجُهُمْ
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [831- 4717] هل يجوز القيام بعملية تحديد النسل واختيار جنس الجنين؟ - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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