There is a modern method that enables a woman to give birth; it is that the egg in the woman is fertilized by sperm outside the womb.

The questioner : Another question - also - in this same ... There is a method ... modern that enables a woman to give birth, and it is as follows: the egg in the woman is fertilized by sperm outside the womb, and after fertilization the egg is placed in the woman's womb to form the fetus; and this method is called artificial insemination; is this method permissible?

The Shaykh : It is not permissible; because you imagine that something foreign to her has entered her womb. Did you understand this with me?

The questioner : ... .

The Shaykh : The matter is finished.

The questioner : But this man is the husband of the woman ...?

The Shaykh : You did not say: husband!

Another questioner : ... You let it go.

Another questioner : Say: husband.

The Shaykh : Okay; let us ask now; first: why does he do this? And second: is there not in extracting the egg from the woman's vagina or womb an exposure of her 'awrah (part of the body that must be covered) to being looked at? Or is there a method we do not know?

The questioner : ... in scientific means!

The Shaykh : ... It is not permissible even if it is the man's fluid; it is not permissible because of the exposure of the woman to a stranger, even if it is a woman, looking at her 'awrah (part of the body that must be covered)!

The questioner : Okay, our Shaykh; necessity, I mean.

The Shaykh : We asked you.

The questioner : Oh?

The Shaykh : We asked you first, we told you: what is the reason?

Another questioner : He did not answer.

The Shaykh : Ah? He did not answer.

Another questioner : We said: why, I mean ... for her to have this method ... .

The questioner : In her device, I mean ... she remains infertile, but with this modern method it makes the woman give birth!

The Shaykh : Is it a necessity?

The questioner : A necessity regarding the issue of reproduction only.

Another questioner : A necessity regarding the issue of reproduction.

Another questioner : This is a lot!

The Shaykh : I am asking you without detail; is it a necessity?
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The Shaykh : And the one who knocks on the door hears the answer.

The questioner : It is a necessity, our Shaykh.

The Shaykh : Oh?

The questioner : A necessity.

The Shaykh : Why?

The questioner : I do not have children, and people have children, and I do not have any, I want children?

The Shaykh : Ah, is it an emotional necessity ... the necessity is like the one who eats pork, when does he eat pork? The necessity that, by Allah, he is longing to eat pork? What is this necessity?

The questioner : No, my Shaykh, it is not.

The Shaykh : He is longing to see a child like that one is telling you ... matters that have no limits.

The questioner : ... Our Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) made it clear to us that .

The Shaykh : Yes, by Allah, the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) spoke the truth.

The questioner : This ... he has a woman who does not give birth; so we want to treat her so that the ... goes away.

The Shaykh : By the haram (forbidden) or by the halal (lawful)?

The questioner : By the halal (lawful).

The Shaykh: All right.

Another questioner : Then it is not permissible.

The Shaykh : Treat as you wish by the halal (lawful), here there is haram (forbidden).

The questioner : Oh Shaykh, this leads to a mental illness!

The Shaykh : No, no, stop there, you said by the halal (lawful) or by the haram (forbidden)?

The questioner : No, by the halal (lawful).

The Shaykh : You are allowed, treat by the halal (lawful), so here is the exposure of the 'awrah (part of the body that must be covered) halal (lawful) or haram (forbidden)? ... just give an answer halal (lawful) or haram (forbidden)?

The questioner : Halal (lawful) if he is in dire necessity for it, and I consider her in dire necessity.

The Shaykh : ... .

Another questioner : Oh our Shaykh, what is the name of the mental illness, I mean?

The Shaykh : ... .

The questioner : My Shaykh, but if I do not have children I become sick, I mean I get a mental illness.

The Shaykh : One of the doctors asked me recently ... that a woman had hair growing on her cheek, on her beard, excuse me, on her chin, that is it permissible for her to pluck them? I said: No. He said: is it that she will have a mental illness? I said to him: this will have a mental illness with her; because the illness exists in her before the growth of these hairs which are not of her making but of the creation of her Lord; and that is that she does not believe that Allah is as He said: , so this woman is either a believer or she is not, so if she is a believer then the treatment of her mental illness is that it is said to her: you do not have the choice like this, your Lord willed it, I said to the doctor: this is like a woman who cross-dresses; why am I not like a man? I walk in the middle of the road, why do I walk on the edge of the road? What is this humiliation? What is this disgrace? Why does the man ride me? I ride him, and so on and so forth, and in the end she turns herself from one gender to another; because she is having psychological complexes; so it is a necessity.