The ruling on one who believes that reciting Surat al-Zalzalah is the cause of a miscarriage
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Question: There is a woman who is suffering from a mental illness. People told her that if a patient is afflicted with a severe illness, Surat al-Zalzalah should be recited over him, and then he will either be cured or he will die. She asked someone to recite it for her and she drank the water from the recitation. After a period, she became pregnant and drank from the recitation, so the child was born healthy.
After he was weaned, she became pregnant with another one. In the ninth month, the illness returned to her, and she drank from the recitation, but on that same day she gave birth to a dead child.
After a period, she became pregnant with another one and the illness returned to her. She drank from the same recitation, and in the eighth month she drank from the recitation and the child was born dead.
After a period, she became pregnant, and in her seventh month she felt ill and drank from it. On the night that followed, she gave birth to a live girl.
I have heard from people that Surat al-Zalzalah causes miscarriages, and that there is a black seed in the recitation, and that the black seed causes the child to be miscarried, and she does not know this. So does any of the children who died attach to her?
Answer: First: What people say about Surat al-Zalzalah, that it cures the patient or he dies, and what they said, that it causes the child to be miscarried, all of this has no basis; rather, it is from the false superstitions of the common people.
Second: There is no fidyah (ransom payment) or kaffarah (expiation) on the woman mentioned; because her action was not the cause of their death.
After he was weaned, she became pregnant with another one. In the ninth month, the illness returned to her, and she drank from the recitation, but on that same day she gave birth to a dead child.
After a period, she became pregnant with another one and the illness returned to her. She drank from the same recitation, and in the eighth month she drank from the recitation and the child was born dead.
After a period, she became pregnant, and in her seventh month she felt ill and drank from it. On the night that followed, she gave birth to a live girl.
I have heard from people that Surat al-Zalzalah causes miscarriages, and that there is a black seed in the recitation, and that the black seed causes the child to be miscarried, and she does not know this. So does any of the children who died attach to her?
Answer: First: What people say about Surat al-Zalzalah, that it cures the patient or he dies, and what they said, that it causes the child to be miscarried, all of this has no basis; rather, it is from the false superstitions of the common people.
Second: There is no fidyah (ransom payment) or kaffarah (expiation) on the woman mentioned; because her action was not the cause of their death.
Source
binbaz.org.sa
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