Manim in the name of Allah the
beneficent the most merciful like to
welcome you dear viewers to this segment
of our program contemporary issues and
in this segment we'll continue to look
at some advancements in modern science
and its implications ations and the
Islamic position with regards to them.
In the previous segment, we looked at
something of cloning. In this segment,
we're looking at something related to
it. That is what they call test tube
babies or artificial insemination where
they will take the egg
uh the OAM from a woman and sperm cell
from a man and put them together in a
test tube. Well, well, actually it's in
petri dishes. and from that they will
grow a fetus and then put it back in the
woman's womb and the child comes. This
is this is being done mainly for w men
or women who are infertile you know for
one reason or another. Um they've been
doing this for some years now. Of course
when it was first done you know it was
like it was put in the newspaper as you
know test tube babies. So this was
called then and people got the idea that
hey they were actually you know uh
making up kids inside of test tubes and
growing them up there you know but of
course this is gross exaggeration of the
facts. The fact is, as we said, they're
extracting OAM and sperm from a male,
living male and female, and putting them
in a petri dish, letting them in a
environment which is similar to that of
the womb so that they can unite and they
start to divide. Once they start to
divide, then they take them and put them
back in a female and the baby is grown
to term. That's the actual process. Now
they have tried to continue that process
outside but they found that the eggs
they will divide and divide for a while
then they go haywire. They cannot
sustain that development outside of the
womb. So it has to go back in and in the
beginning they have to start with an OAM
and a sperm. They're not taking random
chemicals, you know, you go to the
chemical shop, you know, you go to and
you buy these chemicals which are what a
sperm is made of. They're the definite
chemicals, what it's components are.
It's known. You can buy them. And what
an Om is made of, these chemical
components are known. You can buy them.
But they're not doing that. They're not
taking these chemicals and these
chemicals, dropping them into test
tubes, stirring them all around, and
then all of a sudden you're getting a
baby. No, they're nowhere near that. And
they will never achieve it. As Allah
said, if if the whole of humankind and
the jin got together to create a fly,
something which is so despicable, we
kill them all the time, spray them and
everything else and nasty the fly. If
the whole of humankind got together
along with the world of the
jin, call the jin the aliens, right? Get
the whole of the universe together. They
could not even create a fly. That is get
those
chemicals, mix them all together and out
pops a fly. No way. They can never do
it. Why? Because we cannot create life
from inanimate matter. See, modern
science thinks that life is a product of
matter. meaning that once you get these
molecules and atoms and and
um
uh DNA, RNA cell walls and you got this
all together, got all these pieces
together. Life is a product of that
process. They don't look at life as
being something external which has been
added to it. The reality is that's what
it is. It is external. It is not a
product of matter.
matter is created and life is created by
God. So whatever they
do of living things, they can only use
other living things to do it. They
cannot use inanimate matter to create
life or to manipulate it so that they
end up with a living anything. They're
not able to do this and they will never
be able to do this. This is God's
promise. So human beings they can try
all they want. You know it is a waste of
their time, their energy and their
monies. They will never be able to
create life. So back to our test tube
baby, so-called test tube baby. Now what
does Islam say about
this? Well,
basically Islam permits one format, one
way. A man and a woman, man and his
wife.
They're unable to have children for one
reason or another. So you combine the
oam from that woman, the sperm from the
man. Your product you put back into the
o of that same woman, she gives birth to
her child. That is permissible.
Islamically that is permissible. That is
only helping
them to produce children.
Now, all of the other versions that are
out there, because right now you have
mothers bearing the children of their
daughters, a woman, she can't have the
can't deliver the child herself. So,
after combining the sperm of her husband
along with her sperm, the resulting
product, they can't put it back in her
womb because for whatever reason, maybe
they've taken out her womb or whatever,
you know, she can't have the child. So,
they're taking the child and putting the
child in her mother's womb or her
sister's womb or her best friend's womb,
you know, or her daughter's
womb. We have all of these different
pictures. They've done these things
now. All of those are forbidden in
Islam. Forbidden. Because you've got
you've got a
genealogical
bomb maze confusion here. A mother
giving birth to a child who belongs to
her daughter. But that child is in fact
if she mother gives birth that child is
the woman's sister not her daughter. So
you see you've got all kinds of ethical
problems that come here because the
point is that the process though the
child is is in is growing within the
womb separate from the woman in the
sense that as we pointed out issues of
abortion why we were opposed to it
before separate from the
mother blood not mixing with that of the
mothers but still the child is under the
influence there are influences is you
know in in growing in within that womb
their influences that perhaps we don't
recognize them now later on you know 10
years from now or whatever they will
recognize some things which are coming
from that mother into that
child into that child which makes that
child linked to the mother in a unique
way. these things you know are this this
this whole process now destroys the
proper genealogy if we are putting these
uh o to other women
now there's another format too which is
also absurd and unacceptable Islamically
and that is the man for example the man
and his wife and this is very common
today you go that's why you have sperm
banks and oam banks things a man and his
wife the man he has a low sperm count,
his sperm just cannot
uh fertilize the egg of his wife. So,
they go to a sperm bank and they get
somebody else's sperm and they fertilize
his wife's thing and close the child.
Hey, this child is not the man's child.
This is the child whose father now is
unknown. This is an illegitimate child.
This is if relative to the woman some
form of adultery producing an
illegitimate
child. Similarly, you have the other
scene where the woman for whatever
reason she can't produce OAM. So you go
and get Oam from another woman along
with her husband's sperm and then put it
in that woman's womb and she gives birth
to the
child calling it her child but it's not
her child
really. It's got the oven from somebody
else. I mean maybe from the point of
view of it coming out of her own you
know uh she's delivering the child so
you could say okay it's her child from
that perspective but in terms of its
origin its essence it's not her child
you know and this is a child out of
wedlock and what you even find now is
that you have homosexuals males okay
they can't have children if they marry
and you have them marrying today there's
a big case in in England of uh to rich
homosexuals who what they did was they
found women to bore bear their
children, right? They impregnated
without sexual relations. They
impregnated women. They bore the child
and now the two men are going to raise
these children as their own. You know,
this is
absurd, unacceptable Islamically. or two
lesbians, for example, female
homosexuals. Of course, by themselves,
they cannot produce any children. So,
they go to the sperm bank, they buy some
sperm, you know, have it inserted in
themselves, they get pregnant, so
they're having children. This is this is
madness. This is going
beyond the people of Lot and only
inviting the destruction of God on their
society.
So these are unacceptable formats. As we
said in summary, the only acceptable
format is a
husband, his
wife, his the husband's sperm, the over
of the wife being put in the womb of the
wife and delivered by that wife. That's
the only acceptable format. All of the
others are rejected by Islam from the
confusion of genealogy that can come and
the also the the corruption that is
promoted through homosexual couples
being able to have children and raise
those children as their own.
The second area which I'd like to look
at you know related to this is that of
sex change
operations you know which is also uh a
means now of
homosexuals you know whether it's male
or female um they feel you know as they
like to say you know man claims I'm a
woman you know trapped in a man's body
or woman claiming I'm a man trapped in a
woman's body so medical science change
us into what we are not. So you find uh
a man who spent all his life as a man
all of a sudden he goes in has these
operations and then they load him up
with hormones etc so he can grow breasts
and things like this and he's now living
the life of a woman and vice versa. This
from an Islamic perspective is totally
unacceptable. No way can we accept this
at all.
Now this in fact is part of Satan's
trickery as mentioned in the Quran where
Allah said
uh quoted Satan as saying indeed I will
take my share of your servants by
leading them astray and filling them
with vain desires and I will instruct
them and they will cut pieces of the
ears of cattle and they will change
Allah's creation. This is what people
are trying to do today.
This kind of surgery is totally
unacceptable. However, where we have
cases of
hermaphrodites, people who are
born having both male and female sexual
parts but one is dominant for them to
remove the the other close off the
orphases or whatever and that person can
live a complete life as that one
dominant feature. This is something
acceptable. This is correcting something
which you know uh you could say a birth
defect correcting it and Islam doesn't
really have any problem with that. You
know just as a cosmetic surgery in
general because this could be called a
form of cosmetic surgery. Uh this kind
of operations they're acceptable
Islamically. person is born with a
defective ear, you know, a cleft a cleft
pallet, you know, hair, lip, you know, a
variety of different things, you know, a
person in accident burnt or nose is
broken or things, body parts damaged,
etc. For them to use the skills of
modern surgery to try to repair the
damage which has been done, no harm.
However, where people are involved in
trying to actually change
themselves. You know, they don't like
how they look. They feel their lips are
too thin or they're too thick. Their
nose is too pointed or it's too flat.
They feel their eyes are this way or
that way. You know, their cheekbones are
too low. They want it higher. you know,
they want a split in their the cleft in
their chin or they want dimples in their
cheeks or you know, right? These kind of
operations which they're calling them
cosmetic surgery now you know and they
go on to even the rest of the body. They
want to mold the body this way and that
way to look like the latest styles and
you know to to fit modern definitions of
beauty. This type of procedure is from
an Islamic perspective rejected and
forbidden. Prophet wasallam even
prohibited the plucking of eyebrows,
tribal scarring, tattooing and the
artificial spacing of teeth. You know
these were the ancient methods of of
cosmetic surgery which people used to do
and this has been forbidden by the
prophet wasallam in no uncertain terms
that Allah curses those who do this.
So with the uh desire to to change
you're not people are not happy with
what Allah has given them. and they
don't like the way they look. They want
to make this change from this
perspective. Uh this is uh unacceptable
Islamically. Prophet Muhammad wasallam
had said when we look at ourselves in
the mirror, we uh say, "Oh Allah, as you
have made me in the best form, you've
made my form good, make my character
good." You know, this is what we are
supposed to do when we see ourselves. If
we accept this the way the Allah has
made us here, you know, this is uh good
for us. So the issues of cosmetic
surgery, we said where it is
involving repair of damage etc. which
has been done, birth defects etc. This
is legitimate Islamically. But where it
involves just being unhappy with the way
one looks, one wants to look like this
person or look like that person, you
know, change this and change that. these
kind of procedures Islamically is just
unacceptable. The other area which um is
related to this in areas of surgery is
that of organ donation. the idea of
taking organs from one person to another
or even from animals to humans because
the popular thing right now is taking uh
the um
uh some organs from the heart, some
portions from the heart, specifically
the heart valves and putting them from
the pig, putting them in human beings
because they found that pig heart valves
are, you know, are are most suited or
quite similar to the human heart valve
and it works functions quite effect well
you know there's less chance of
rejection needs to have body rejection
these type of things and of course this
creates some ethical problems for
Muslims especially because when you
consider the pig you know uh we are not
allowed to eat it it's forbidden we
can't buy it and sell it etc so how then
can we take a piece of it and put it in
our heart well from Islamic perspective
when life is threatened when life and
limb is threatened then we are permitted
to eat the
dead to eat what we cannot normally eat.
If we're plane crashes on the desert, we
have nothing to eat. I mean, you find a
wild pig, you eat
it, you know, or even if you know a
person who is with you on the plane,
they died next to you and and you're
starving to death, you're allowed to eat
a piece of
them. But of course, you only eat what
is enough to keep yourself alive.
Meaning maybe you cut off a finger or
two and you eat them. And it doesn't
mean that you know because you eat you
eat them and they taste good. You didn't
think it would taste good. Then all of a
sudden you're cutting off a arm or a leg
and you starting to roast it all up and
everything. No, no, no. You stop with
what is absolutely necessary. Just same
thing with alcohol. For example, you're
starving to death. You know, you can't
nothing to drink. The plane crashed. The
only thing that's available you find in
the cargo is some alcohol. You drink
from it enough to keep you alive. This
is a basic principle from Islamic law
which makes this permissible. So if we
can eat human body parts, if we can eat
the pig, drink alcohol in these
circumstances, then surely to take
organs from the pig to keep ourselves
alive or organs from another dead human
being to keep ourselves alive is
permissible. We can't kill a human being
to get their organs. No, it's not
permissible. But if a person has died
already to take the organs and utilize
it to keep the another person alive,
this is a legitimate process according
to Islamic
law. With that, dear viewers, like to
thank you for looking at these issues
along with us. We hope that you know
these have enlightened you to some
degree as to you know how Islam
functions quite reasonable looks at the
key issues with regards to these new
scientific practices and takes a
position you know doesn't stand back to
say well well we just don't know no
Islam there's guidance in in in in every
procedure every process every uh new
development which comes Islam has a
ruling which is applicable to it because
Islam is the way of life which God
provided for human beings to guide them
in all aspects of their lives. So
nothing
remains without some form of guidance to
show us the
way. With that dear viewers, I'd like to
thank you for being with us and hope
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