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Are we allowed to create test-tube babies (i.e undergo
IVF treatment) according to Islamic law
Question
Are we allowed to create test-tube babies (i.e
undergo IVF treatment) according to Islamic law. My
friend and her husband have been told that they could
not have children because they are infertile as a
couple. The only way that they could have children is
by having a test-tube baby. This treatment involves
fertilising the wife's egg with the husband's sperm
outside the body, in a medical lab. Once the baby has
started to concieve, the baby will be put back into
the wife's womb. In this process no sperm or egg is
used from strange (non-mehram) men or women, only wife
and husband sex cells are joined together. Please tell
me whether this fertility treatment can take place for
wife and husband in islam. If it cannot take place can
you please explain why this treatment is sinn and
haraam in islam - can you please give me reference to
the quran and hadith. Thank you.
Answer
Allah is the Creator of the universe. He created
the heavens and the earth. Everything is subject to
His will. As believers, we should appreciate and
accept that granting of children is the sole
prerogative of Allah. Allah in His infinite knowledge
and wisdom will bless a person with children at a time
that is appropriate to that persons specific
situation. At times, Allah may not grant a couple
children, whilst this is also a blessing unto them.
Sometimes, Allah tests man through this. Nabi
Zakariyyah (alayhimus salaam)received the bounty of a
child in his old age.
Amongst the negative characteristics of artificial
insemination are:
1. Unnatural conception;
2. A woman is required to expose her private parts;
However, inability to conceive is also essentially a
medical problem. Islam has encouraged us to adopt
medical treatment as a means. Therefore, if a genuine
medical condition exists, e.g. infertility, etc. then
under the guidance of an upright competent medical
doctor, artificial insemination may be adopted as a
medical treatment with the following provision:
1. A surrogate mother is not used (that any other
women besides the wife) cells are used;
2. Only the sperm of the husband is used.
and Allah Ta'ala Knows Best
Mufti Ebrahim Desai
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