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Assalamu alaikum warahmatullahi wa barakatuhu alhamdulillah wa salatu wa salamu ala

Rasulillahu wa ala ala aalihi wa sahbihi wa minu wa la hama bad. For today's Q&A, I am

very honored to be able to host Dr. Hatim al-Hajj one more time. This is our second time

hosting him and a very brief introduction. He has asked me to cut down on his introduction

nonetheless. You should know that Dr. Hatim al-Hajj al-hamdulillah he is both an MD and the

Ph.D. in Comparative Firk in Islamic Studies from of Jinnan University. He is a practicing

pediatrician. He is the former dean of College of Islamic Studies at Mishqa and a permanent

a member of the permanent Fatwa Committee of Amj of the American Muslim Jurist Association.

Dr. Hatim al-Hajj, as always, it's a pleasure and honor to have you on our Q&A. Hamdulillah.

We'll have a better take once again. Same here.

Hamdulillah. So, Shaykhana, today we're going to be talking about an area that is an actual

Masha'Allah lived experience of yours which is medical practices in light of the Shari'a.

And I wanted to really discuss some very pertinent and very common questions that Muslims ask

and we'll try to begin chronologically from pre-birth all the way up until the issue of a very

end-of-life support system. So, we're going to go over a number of issues and scenarios beginning

from the very beginning which is the inception of life and one of the biggest questions that so

many people ask in our times is the Islamic ruling on ending pregnancies or the issue of abortion.

And before we even dive into the Firk of ending pregnancies, let us first discuss Shaykhana,

what is the Islamic position on the beginning of life? And the controversy over 40 versus 120.

So, if you can begin with that in ShaykhAllah, and then let's move on to the issue of

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