Question:
As salamu alaykum,
Is abortion permissible?
Answer:
Wa alaykum salam wa rahmatuLlahi wa barakatuHu,
Abortion entails getting rid of a nutfah [the zygote], embryo, or fetus from a woman’s womb. The nutfah is essential in our being created; as Allah informed us in various verses of the Holy Quran, like where He says:
ثم جعلناه نطفة في قرار مكين
“Thereafter We made him (Adam’s children) as a nutfah, placing it in a safe lodging (the womb).” (Surah al-Mu’minin 13)
After conception abortion is unlawful. (Ihya’ ‘Ulum al-Din v. 1, p. 472-73; Tuhfat al-Muhtaj v. 7, p. 18)
And Allah knows best.
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