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We have brother Muammar from Moscow, Moscow, Russia emailing

Saying that he has there's a hadith that he's come across that he doesn't understand and he's asking

How do we understand this hadith is a very troubling hadith for him? He says that the hadith in

Saheb Bukhari or Saheb Muslim it states that the gender of the baby is decided

Based upon whether the man discharges first or the woman that according to what he says that the hadith says that

If the man discharges first, it will be a boy and if the woman discharges first, it will be a girl and

He says how can we understand this hadith in light of our modern knowledge of genetics?

Faisalou Ahle Rikriin

Well, I'm first and foremost brother Muammar. It is heartwarming to know that people in Russia are

Masha Allah watching the show

Actually many of our viewers are not aware, but

There is a large concentration of Muslims in Russia and the history of Islam in Russia goes back many many centuries

The tatars are of course the largest ethnicity

Within the Russian mainland and perhaps up to maybe even 10% of the

Russian population is Muslim compared this to America 1% is Muslim in America

Russia at least 7 maybe even 10 maybe even more percent is Muslim and I have never been but I have heard that every city has

Massage than Halal restaurants and you find Muslims in every major city in Russia

I'm happy to know that people are watching of course the language barrier is

Difficult there because most of the people there

Do not speak English, but brother Muammar apparently does so he's watching our show

So Hamdulillah nice to have you listening in now. He asks a very very specific question and he references a hadith

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