اختلاف الفقهاء في تحديد جنس الجنين بين الجواز و المنع

Abstract

The process of determining the gender of newborn , whether male or female has methods, some of that methods are legitimate; determining the time of intercourse, following a specific diet, and doing chemical wash... and all of these methods are nothing they are just reasons for obtaining the desired gender of the newborn, that is because the will and will belong to Allah alone. There are other methods which illegal and forbidden, such as the Chinese chart that related to astronomy and arithmetic. And other last methods in which there is a difference in their legitimacy, such as artificial insemination outside the womb (in vitro fertilisation) which is by separating the sperm and sifting them, and then fertilizing the egg with male or female sperm as desired and the egg is returned to the womb. Moreover, the Islamic jurists differed over the possibility of choosing and determining the gender of the fetus. Some of them held that there is no legal objection to it, and that the original of the work is permissible. Whereas other Islamic jurists went to say that it is not permissible to determine the gender of the fetus, because that work is not permissible according to sharia . Both of them has itsown evidence