THE DAILY ISLAMIC REMINDERS. Yaum Ath-thalaathah, 28th day of SAFAR 1440, (Tuesday, 6th November, 2018). RULINGS ON ABORTION. BismilLah. First of all, let me remind all of us that we cannot obey ANYONE when it comes to any disobedience to ALLAH(Al-Wadud, The Loving, The Kind One). What I mean is if your husband or parents request you to do something which goes against ALLAH(Al-Hakeem, The Wise) and HIS MESSENGER, you must decline by reminding them about what ALLAH(Al-Mujib, The Responsive, The Answerer) and HIS Messenger said. Scholars based on QUR'AN and Sunnah ruled on this topic as follows; 1. It is not permissible to abort a pregnancy at any stage unless there is a legitimate reason, and within very precise limits.   2. If the pregnancy is in the first stage, which is a period of forty days, and aborting it serves a legitimate purpose or will ward off harm, then it is permissible to abort it. But aborting it at this stage for fear of the difficulty of raising children or of being unable to bear the costs of maintaining and educating them, or for fear for their future or because the couple feel that they have enough children etc this is not permissible.  3. It is not permissible to abort a pregnancy when it is an ‘alaqah (clot) or mudghah (chewed lump of flesh) (which are the second and third periods of forty days each) until a trustworthy medical committee has decided that continuing the pregnancy poses a threat to the mother’s wellbeing, in that there is the fear that she will die if the pregnancy continues. It is permissible to abort it once all means of warding off that danger have been exhausted.  4. After the third stage, and after four months have passed, it is not permissible to abort the pregnancy unless a group of trustworthy medical specialists decide that keeping the foetus in his mother’s womb will cause her death, and that should only be done after all means of keeping the foetus alive have been exhausted. A concession is made allowing abortion in this case so as to ward off the greater of two evils and to serve the greater of two interests.  Al-Fataawa al-Jaami’ah, 3/1056. From the above fatwa, we must fear ALLAH (Al-Jaleel, The Majestic) and avoid the abortion practice. Fear that you are taken the highest risk in life to die in a state of abortion or as a result of abortion. May ALLAH keep guiding us all and protect us from any satanic influences. Aameen.