Tue 14 رمضان 1447 (03 Mar 2026)
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Mufti:
Alsayyed Muhammad b. Abdallah Awad Al-Muayyady
Fatwa number: 18681
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Fatwa number: 18681
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Question: Physicians have recently undertaken to take from a man’s semen and from a woman’s (i.e., ova), then place that in test tubes, where the child is formed and grows; then the child is transferred from the tube and placed in his mother’s womb. Is such a procedure permissible if the mother does not conceive due to an impediment?
The answer—and Allah is the One who grants success: What appears is that the means by which this is achieved are prohibited, and it does not, as seems, come about except through acts of disobedience:
1. The man disobeys Allah—Exalted is He—by exposing his private parts without necessity.
2. Extracting semen by other than what Allah has made lawful is disobedience.
3. The woman likewise exposes her private parts without necessity, and what is in her womb is extracted in an unlegislated way; all of that is disobedience to the One, the Subduer.
4. Then, when transferring the embryo to the womb, this is not done except by the woman uncovering herself to the utmost. Such things are not permissible in Islam except in the most extreme necessity; as for the situation described in the question, it is not permissible and not lawful.
That said, if a husband wishes to have children and be one with offspring, then let him pursue that through the means which Islam has permitted—namely, marrying a second wife.
Furthermore, a person is not safe, if he does such a thing, from their placing in his wife’s womb another, foreign embryo—due to causes and possibilities.
Source : Min Thimār al-ʿIlm wa al-Ḥikmah vol.1
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