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Question:
I’d like to know how a lady who has been raped should be dealt with. Does
this incident make her impure in any way? Does it make her an unbeliever?
Is she guilty of adultery? If not, then is it permissible under Islam to
marry her and give her a good life; but then the Qur’an says that
a Muslim should marry a chaste woman only?
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*. After conception, once the spirit has been blown in a human embryo and it becomes a living soul, it cannot be aborted unless on some medical grounds a doctor advises so. Before this spirit is blown, the human foetus is actually a ‘non-living’ mass of flesh and can be destroyed. A Hadith tells us that it is after 120 days (four months) that an angel comes and blows the spirit in the human embryo:
If this Hadith is authentic, and there seems no reason to believe otherwise, then abortion after 120 days can only and only take place if a doctor advises it on medical grounds. |