Is it permissible to find out the gender of the baby prior to it being born. For e.g, during the last scan week 31 of pregnancy?<\/p>\n
In the name of Allah, the most Beneficent, the most Merciful. <\/strong><\/p>\n Allah (SWA) in the Holy Qur\u2019an has said:<\/p>\n \u201cSurely, it is Allah with whom rests the knowledge of the Hour; and He sends down the rain and he knows what is in the wombs.\u00a0 And no one knows what he will earn tomorrow and no one knows in which land he will die.\u00a0 Surely, Allah is All Knowing, All Aware.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 (Surah Luqmaan v.34)<\/p>\n The above verses prove that in the absolute knowledge of the unseen there are five things the knowledge of which is not given to any prophet even through wahy (divine revelation) or any pious saint through ilham (inspiration).\u00a0 However, there are countless events where the pious saints have given news of rain, pregnancy or someone doing a deed or not doing a deed in the future or someone\u2019s exact place of death.\u00a0 Furthermore, with advanced medical equipment the gender of an unborn child in the mother\u2019s womb can be deduced.<\/p>\n This raises the question: How then could these five things remain exclusive to the Divine Knowledge of Allah (SWA)?<\/p>\n Knowledge of the unseen is knowledge without the mediation of a physical cause.\u00a0 If these things are received by the blessed prophets through wahy, by the pious saints through ilhaam and by astrologers through their calculations is not knowledge of the unseen.\u00a0 Instead, these are \u2018news\u2019 of the unseen.\u00a0 Furthermore, this knowledge is through a medium with the probabilities of error or false perception.\u00a0\u00a0 (Maariful Quran p.58-p.59 v.7)<\/p>\n With regards to your question, the procedure carried out to deduce the gender of an unborn child would not be against the above verse, thus it will be permissible.<\/p>\n Only Allah Knows Best<\/p>\n Mohammed Tosir Miah<\/p>\n Darul Ifta Birmingham<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Is it permissible to find out the gender of the baby prior to it being born. For e.g, during the last scan week 31 of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Answer <\/strong><\/h1>\n