THE DAILY ISLAMIC REMINDERS. Yaum al-khamis, 23rd day of Zul Hijjah (Thursday 13th August 2020.

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 if all means of warding off that danger have been exhausted. 

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. Astaqfirullah. 

May ALLAH keep guiding us all and protect us and our offsprings from such a satanic influence. Aameen.