Abortion Of A Disabled Foetus After 120 Days Of Conception
so sorry for your ordeal brother, only Allah can comfort your heart Few yrs back my sister found out that her child will be mentally disabled like her first born. I advised her to do abortion she did, here’s my reasoning Parents have no right to bring a child in this world knowingly that his/her life will be nothing but misery and pain. The child will never enjoy a warmth of mother’s love, playfulness of siblings and friends, care of a loving father. everyday child will suffer, either pain from illness, pain from disability, pain from neglect from others particularly family this is not a religious issue but a human issue. You do not need a religious answer. neither it is related to you or your wife, it is related to your child and your child alone. If you decide against abortion, you r deciding a painful life for someone else. You will keep on enjoying normal activities like walking, running or foods of your choice or freedom to do as you please but you will be taking away all that from someone else
Thank you brother Umer for clarifying Ghamidi sahab’s opinion I’ve read this view and similar views from other scholars for sometime now. My main concern is what is the reason to take this hadith a definition of physical or biological transformation into human? Why we can not make the argument that abortion is illegal from day 1 because the embryo is human biologically from day 1, ruh will be breathed in it on day 120 and since ruh can only be breathed into a human, the embryo should be regarded as human? The idea of differentiating between 2 stages i.e. animal then human is an inference only. Neither the quran or the hadith identifies it as such. The quoted ayahs talking about the majesty of Allah and not defining what makes human being. Allah and Muhammad SAW’s explained a spiritual process and not a biological or physical one. Similar example would be prostration by celestial bodies or trees or other non-living things mentioned in the Quran and hadith, again, not a physical process but a spiritual or metaphysical one. If this is taken literally then how do we justify cutting trees and make toilet paper? or use stones for cleaning although there’s a miracle of Muhammad SAW reported where stone gave shahada on his hand Now we know that a human embryo is a human embryo from day 1 of conception so this idea that its an animal form till day 120 then it become human is against Mussalamat-e-aqal / reason. ayah 32:7-9, ears eyes and hearts are mentioned after nafakh-e-ruh, so should we say after ruh is instilled then these organs r made? if so, any birth defect in any of these organs means ruh wasn’t instilled so the child is less human? or not a human? In my view the mixing of religion and biology is not the intention of Allah or Muhammad SAW. I apologize for keep arguing but, over the yrs, I’ve seen lot of people losing faith when they thought doing something religious will cure them or their loved one and it never works! this is worse with the pandemic of covid-19. I believe we r making children suffer in the name of religion and also hurting their parents and above all, holding Allah the most merciful, responsible for this life long suffering.
Unfortunately this matter can’t be argued on the basis of science and technology. Science and technology at this time doesn’t understand the very concept of nafs or consciousness, let alone have any information about how or when a physical body attains this property. Science can only tell us about the stages of physical development of an embryo, however, a human being is much more than just material existence; it has a nafs. This can be experienced by every human being, so we don’t even need any scientific verification for this self evident fact. Anyone can disagree with Ghamidi sahab’s opinion, however, I think that instead of reacting emotionally, the question raised by Ghamidi sahab must be understood and satisfactorily answered by anyone who chooses to disagree. What if a severe birth defect is diagnosed in a newborn right after birth? Do we have the right to kill that newborn? If not then what gives us the right to kill the same newborn before birth? As far as the objection about 120 days, we have received this information from an authentic source – the Prophet of God. Unless we have any reason to doubt this information, we have no basis to reject it.