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Our first question for today, I've actually gathered together four or five questions all about the same

topic of in vitro fertilization or IVF. So, and these are a little bit more specific than the generic question. So, Sister Asma emails saying that she already has given birth to some children naturally at Hamdulillah, but some issues happened and she can no longer have any more children. So, she's asking that in this case, is it permissible to utilize the IVF procedure or would it not be permissible because she's not going to

because she already has children. Sister Kamarun from UK, Kamarun from the UK is a very specific question saying that her husband and her were trying for many years to have children via the IVF, but they were not successful. The husband has recently passed away, we ask Allah to forgive him, but she's saying now that the sperm is still stored. And according to the laws of the country, she lives in.

She has the right to access that and they were married at the time of his death. So, can she use his sperm, given that she's still in the idda. And Sister Misha emails that she has been diagnosed with a rare type of specific ailment that affects her ovaries, doctors are saying that everything is normal except her egg production.

So, the doctors have said that she should take a donor's egg and her husband's sperm and then put it into her own womb and they will have the baby from her womb, she is saying is this permissible.

And the final question of this series, Brother Matin says that during the IVF process, the doctors have told him that they can choose the gender of the baby he wants.

That they will do this, they're going to be checking the sperm anyway for vitality and whatever. So, it's not going to make any difference to them. If he wants, they said that they can basically select the gender and so is this permissible.

Now, these are a whole bunch of series of questions about IVF in vitro fertilization. And I have given a longer Q&A with a specialist Dr. Hatim Al-Hadj, you will find it on my YouTube channel.

You will find it on the YouTube channels that you're watching this video from. And Dr. Hatim Al-Hadj is not only a scholar, he is also a licensed medical practitioner and a specialist in medicine and also in the Sharia.

And I had a very, very lengthy Q&A about many aspects of the field of medicine and this was one of them. So, you can listen to that lecture for more details.

But I do believe that these specific questions should be addressed more in line of the questions that are being asked, i.e. going to a little bit more detail.

And of course, for those of you who are not aware of brief summary, in vitro fertilization IVF is basically a procedure in which the mature eggs are collected or retrieved from a woman's ovaries and fertilize via a sperm that has also been collected from the man.

The actual fertilization does not take place inside of the uterus. It takes place in a lab or in a glass cylinder. In vitro means it's in a glass cylinder.

And then the fertilized embryo is then transferred to a uterus. And this is a relatively modern procedure. The first time actually it was done successfully was in England in 1978.

By the way, the lady that the child that was born, a young girl, that lady is still alive and healthy and living her life. So, and she's in her mid-40s now. So, it's a relatively recent procedure in 1978.

And therefore, because of this, you're not going to find any classical fatawa. What you will find is modern Fich councils looking into this issue.

And a number of Fich councils have looked into this issue since the 1980s, and pretty much all of them. Pretty much all of them, they have allowed it with a series of conditions.

That, as long as these conditions are met, then it is permitted. And the most famous perhaps, and one of the earliest councils to do a thorough study, was the Maj-Mal-Fichi, which is attached to the Robert Al-Alamin Islamic, this is known as the International Islamic Fich Academy.

And this is perhaps one of the largest bodies of scholars from diverse theological schools, diverse Fichi schools, and diverse geographic schools.

It is probably one of the most, if you like, mainstream representatives of global Islam. And therefore, their fatawa should really be looked up to and considered to be something that is very relevant and pertinent.

They only look at modern issues. They don't look at, you know, stuff that has been there, then they look at modern issues. And in 1987, in Jordan, they meet annually in 1987, they had an entire session about the IVF issue in vitro fertilization.

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