Question
The press recently reported that there is life in the unborn baby at even 12 weeks (i.e. 84 days). The report states: Compelling pictures of babies in the womb apparently smiling, crossing their hands, and making walking leg movements appeared in the British newspapers this week (July 2004), prompting calls to review abortion laws. Real time images show a 12 week-old foetus stretching and making kicking movements with its feet….. A 14 to 15 weekold foetus sucks its thumb and yawns…." How does this new discovery impact on Islam's view that the rooh (soul) enters the foetus on the 120th day. Based on this, the Shariah allows abortion for a valid reason before 120 days. But in the cases mentioned above, not only life has entered the foetus long before 120 days, but the baby is fully formed. Please comment.
Answer
The entry of the Rooh on the 120th day is established on the basis of Saheeh Hadith. There is no doubt in this fact. It is Mansoos Alayh (i.e. on which exists categoric proof of either the Qur'aan or Saheeh Hadith). Secondly, it should be understood that every rule has exceptions. Nabi Isaa (alayhis salaam) spoke from the womb of his mother, i.e. before birth. This is an exceptional case. Hadhrat Maryam (alayhas salaam) miraculously conceived Hadhrat Isaa (alayhis salaam) without the normal worldly agency of reproduction. This is also an exception to the rule. If the soul has in reality entered the 84 day old foetus, at most it can be argued that it is an exception to the rule. Allah Ta'ala is not bound by laws and rules which are meant for human beings.
Furthermore, there is no qat-iyyat (absolute certitude) in a claim that the rooh has indeed entered the 12 week-old foetus. The movements of the foetus cannot be attributed with absolute certitude to a rooh which has entered it. It is quite possible that the movements of the 12 week-old foetus are the consequences of the Rooh of the mother just as the movements and activities of the heart, lungs and all bodily organs without their own souls are the consequences of the Soul of the being in whom these organs exist. The numerous organs in the human body are without independent souls, but they have their movements and functions which they execute. For their activities they are dependent on the Rooh of the person. Similarly, it is quite possible that in certain cases the Rooh of the mother exercises an influence on the soulless foetus in the same way as her Rooh impacts on her other bodily organs. The mother herself smiles, walks, sits and make all types of movements. Her internal organs have their own forms of respective movement. All these movements, both inward and outward, are the consequences of the action of the Rooh. There is no rational argument to refute a contention that the mother's Rooh influences her foetus just as it activates all her other bodily organs. After all, the foetus is part of her body. It is attached to her. Her Rooh physically nourishes, sustains and develops her foetus through the intermediary of numerous organs. This contention, namely, the movements of the foetus are the effects of the action of its mother's Rooh, is therefore not farfetched, leave alone it being a rational impossibility.
Whether the movements of the 12 week-old foetus are the voluntary and conscious effects of its own rooh or the mechanical consequences of the action of the mother's Rooh in the same way as all her other organs react to the Rooh, are not known and cannot be established by this latest discovery. Professor Campell who made the pictures of the foetus observed: "What's behind the smile, of course, I can't say, but the corners turn up and the cheeks bulge." The 'turning of the corners' and the bulging of the cheeks are not absolute evidence for conscious smiling or voluntary smiling. The smilelike movement could be an involuntary reaction to some assertion of the mother's Rooh or the action of some of her bodily organs.
The latest discovery may just be a discovery of what is common to all foetuses prior to 120 days. This particular 12 weekold foetus may not be an exception. Other foetuses of this age and less may also be behaving in a similar way. The new technique of technology has enabled the professor to make his pictures. These images are not discernible with the techniques hitherto employed. Hence the report says: "Campbell made the pictures in 3D- 4D, a new technique in existence since 2001 with photos in three dimension with video animation enabling study of foetus movements in real time." The information which the new technique has brought to light might be
common to all foetuses of less than 120 days. If this could be ascertained, it will confirm that the movements are the effects of the mother's Rooh and organs.
Furthermore, the Hadith of 120 days is not related to abortion. The ruling of the Shariah on abortion is: · Abortion is haraam if any human form, e.g.. finger, hand, etc., has developed regardless of any reason. No reason is considered valid for abortion if any human form has developed.
· If no form has developed, the foetus being only a clot, then if there is a valid Shar'i reason, abortion is permissible prior to 120 days.
· Under no circumstances is abortion permissible if life is discerned by any means whatsoever, and be it prior to 120 days. Consider the example of a pregnant woman having died. If signs of life are detected in the foetus, it is Waajib to operate and remove the baby regardless of the age of the pregnancy. The principle is the existence of life, not the Hadith which mentions that the Rooh enters on the 120th day. It is quite possible that Allah Ta'ala decrees the infusion of rooh into the foetus even before 120 days. And Allah knows best.
"What do you (O Muhammad!) think that most of them will listen or understand? (Never!) They are like cattle, in fact, they are more astray from the Path."
(Al-Furqaan, Aayat 44)
The vast majority of people will always be astray. They deviate from the Path of Truth and stray further and further from the Haqq, hence Allah Ta'ala depicts them as being more astray than even animals. They eat like animals and they lead lives like animals without the haziest idea of the Accountability in the Aakhirah and without understanding Maut, Barzakh, Qiyaamah, Jahannam and Jannat.
In this Aayat, Allah Ta'ala informs Rasulullah ( S a ll a ll a hu a l ayh i wasallam) that he should not hold the expectation of the majority of mankind entering the fold of Islam. The attribute of being more astray than even animals is not exclusive with the kuffaar. It applies equally to Muslims who blatantly and shamelessly indulge in fisq, fujoor and bid'ah. And, it has greater application to the moron molvis and crank 'sufi' shaikhs and cheap khalifahs of our age.
(Arabic passage, page 10 of the original PDF)
(Arabic passage, page 10 of the original PDF)
Leading scientist claims consciousness lives on after death
By Rachel Ellis, London
The transplant was a success. Then the donor came to take it back.
That was the premise of the 1991 film Body Parts, in which Jeff Fahey plays a man who loses his arm in a car accident. The arm of an executed death row inmate is grafted on in its place. The only problem is Fahey soon discovers that the arm is possessed by a force he cannot control.
A leading scientist claims he has proof that patients who undergo major organ transplants can inherit the personalities of their donors.
Gary Schwartz, a professor of psychology at the University of Arizona, says he has details of 70 cases where this controversial phenomenon has occurred. And he claims that it affects at least 10% of people who have a heart, lung, kidney or liver transplant. (This is according to the findings of the limited testing of the scientist. From the Ahaadith it is clear that such 'inheritance' is an almost certainty.- The Majlis)
The theory that personality and character traits can be transferred via an organ transplant has existed for some time, but most scientists have ridiculed the notion. (This theory has been confirmed by Rasulullah s a l l a l l a h u a l a y h i wasallam - more than fourteen centuries ago. The ridiculers are morons in whose brains Allah Ta'ala has cast rijs -filthwhich has disturbed their thinking process. - The Majlis)
Schwartz now claims to have evidence that in the most extreme cases patients adopt a donor's taste in food, take up the same interests and pastimes, and even develop talents that the donor possessed. (In the same way patients adopt the fisq, fujoor and kufr of the 'donors' of the organs and the blood. - The Majlis)
In one case, a woman who had been healthconscious and calm began craving fast food and became aggressive, just like the biker whose heart and lungs she received.
In another, a sevenyear-old girl had nightmares about being killed after being given the heart of a girl who had been murdered.
Schwartz will present his findings at a holistic living conference in London next weekend, titled Icons of the Field. Critics put such events down to chance, the trauma of the surgery or the side-effects of the drugs that transplant patients have to take. (The critics are morons influenced by the devil. - The Majlis)
But Schwartz, who is also a professor of medicine, neurology, psychiatry and surgery and has published more than 400 scientific papers, said that all transplant patients should be warned that there is a chance they will inherit the personality of a donor. (Most certainly they will. It is not merely a 'chance'. - The Majlis) 'It is a big ethical question, but I believe transplant patients should be told there is a possibility that they will take on a donor's characteristics. Then they can have a choice.
"They can decide what is important: being active and being with their family, but with the chance that they might take on some traits of the donor that they might not like." he said.
Our research shows that about ten per cent of patients will inherit some of a donor's characteristics. It could even be higher, because most patients are afraid to share their experiences," Schwartz said.
"I don't want to frighten people, but to make it more acceptable for them to share what is happening to them. If this is a real phenomenon, we shouldn't ignore it and it requires further scientific study."
Schwartz's claims are based on the theory that all major organs develop a certain amount of memory. In a transplant, this memory can be transferred-from one person to another. (What he describes as 'memory' is in fact athr which is inherent in all things. - The Majlis)
He explained: "When the organ is placed in the recipient, the information and energy stored in the organ is passed on to the recipient. The stories we have uncovered are compelling and completely consistent with this systematic memory hypothesis."
Since starting his research in the '80s, Schwartz has attracted widespread criticism from the medical establishment. In one startling experiment, he claimed to prove that consciousness lives on after we die. (The kuffaar medical establishment is fundamentally atheist and satanic, hence the criticism. Their brains are polluted with satanism. - The Majlis)
AN UNLAWFUL
CUSTOM
Hadhrat Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanvi (rahmatullah alayh) said: "Some Madaaris have the custom of issuing the Sanad-e- Fadhielat (Certificate of Qualification) and awarding the Dastaarbandi (the ceremony of tying the Turban of qualification) to just any student whether he possesses ability or not and whether he practices according to his Ilm or not." (Islaahur Rusoom)
Everything, animate or inanimate, exercises an athr (impression / influe n c e ). R a s u l u l l a h (Sallallahu alayh i wasallam) said: "Do not allow humaqaa' (ignorant women) to breast feed (your infants), for verily milk is contagious."
The effect is both physical and spiritual. In this Hadith, Rasulullah (Sallallahu alayh i wasallam) relates the contagiousness to hamaaqah (being stupid / imbecile / foolish). The primary consequence of the hamaaqah of the woman will be the effect of hamaaqah in the child she breast feeds, and this is not a physical disease. Thus the contagiousness mentioned in this Hadith refers to a spiritual/intellectual malady even if the woman is physically healthy.
Rasulullah (Sallallahu alayhi wasallam) had also forbidden sitting on the skins of wild animals regardless of such skins being pure and permissible for use after they have been treated for the expulsion of all moisture.
Almost every Nabi prior to the publication of his Nubuwwat (Prophethood) was made a shepherd by Allah Ta'ala, never a camel-herd or a cattle-herd. The reason for the profession of being a shepherd, is that humility is a natural attribute of sheep which is lacking in camels and cattle. Association with goats and sheep exercises the effect of humility in human beings.
From these examples, the detrimental and harmful physical, moral and spiritual effects of blood transfusion and organ transplants should be quite understandable.
The article in this regard appearing on page 11 confirms this reality. Even atheist scientists have established by their own methods the reality of athr.
CURRYING
FAVOUR
"The effort is to please everyone. No one should be displeased. The root for this fitnah is hubb-e-jah (love for name and fame)." - Hadhrat Maulana Yusuf Binnuri
In the endeavour to please all and sundry, the Haqq is either concealed or presented in a mutilated form so as to appease the palates of the fussaaq, fujjaar and kuffaar. It is an attitude of bootlicking. This disease is gnawing at the hearts and brains of most molvis and sheikhs of this age.
BECOME THE MOST PIOUS
Hadhrat Abdullah Ibn Mas'ood (Radhiyallahu anhu) said: "Be contented with whatever Allah has apportioned for you, then you will be the wealthiest of people. Abstain from the prohibitions (haraam acts), then you will become the most pious of people. Fulfill whatever has been imposed on you (by the Shariah), then you will become the greatest worshipper among people.
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(Arabic passage, page 12 of the original PDF)
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