ISLAM CONDEMNS FEMALE INFANTICIDE AND FOETICIDE

Safy Emanمتابعة

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ISLAM CONDEMNS FEMALE INFANTICIDE AND FOETICIDE
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My parents killed me because I was a girl

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CHINA'S ONE-CHILD POLICY WILL HAVE A FAR-REACHING IMPACT ON ITS SOCIETY FOR YEARS TO COME.

THIS CRIME OF FEMALE INFANTICIDE IN CHINA AND INDIA AND MNAY OTHER PARTS IN THE WORLD ARE DESCRIBED IN QURAN 1400 YEARS AGO

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ISLAM PROHIBITS INFANTICIDE OR KILLING OF FEMALE INFANTS.

THIS IS CONSIDERED A SERIOUS CRIME OF MURDER.
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QURAN SURAH AL-TAKVIR CHAPTER 81, VERSES 8 AND 9 (81 : 8-9)

“WHEN THE FEMALE (INFANT), BURIED ALIVE, IS QUESTIONED, FOR WHAT CRIME SHE WAS KILLED.”

(17:31), (6:15)

IN PRE-ISLAMIC ARABIA KILLING OF FEMALE INFANTS WAS VERY COMMON AND VERY OFTEN THE MOMENT A FEMALE WAS BORN SHE WAS BURIED ALIVE.

ISLAM NOT ONLY PROHIBITS FEMALE INFANTICIDE, BUT IT FORBIDS ALL TYPES OF INFANTICIDE, IRRESPECTIVE OF WHETHER THE INFANT IS A MALE OR FEMALE.

IT IS MENTIONED IN SURAH AL-ANAM CHAPTER 6, VERSE 151 (6:151).

“KILL NOT YOUR CHILDREN ON A PLEA OF WANT.

WE PROVIDE SUSTENANCE FOR YOU AND FOR THEM. COME NOT NEAR SHAMEFUL DEEDS, WHETHER OPEN OR SECRET.

TAKE NOT LIFE WHICH ALLAH HAS MADE SACRED.”

A SIMILAR GUIDANCE IS REPEATED IN SURAH AL-ISRA CHAPTER 17, VERSE 31 (17:31).

“KILL NOT YOUR CHILDREN FOR FEAR OF WANT: WE SHALL PROVIDE SUSTENANCE FOR THEM AS WELL AS FOR YOU. VERILY THE KILLING OF THEM IS A GREAT SIN.”

IN PRE-ISLAMIC ARABIA KILLING OF FEMALE INFANTS WAS VERY COMMON AND VERY OFTEN, THE MOMENT A FEMALE WAS BORN, SHE WAS BURIED ALIVE.

HOWEVER, AFTER THE SPREAD OF ISLAM IN ARABIA, AL HAMDULILLAH,

THIS EVIL PRACTICE HAS BEEN DISCONTINUED FOR THE LAST 1,400 YEARS BUT UNFORTUNATELY IT IS YET PREVALENT IN INDIA.
IN A BBC DOCUMENTARY FILM TITLED “LET HER DIE” SHOWN IN THE PROGRAMME “ASSIGNMENTS”, THE STATISTICS OF FEMALE INFANTICIDE WAS GIVEN BY EMETIC BUCHANAN.

IT HAS TO BE A BRITISHER WHO CAME ALL THE WAY FROM BRITAIN TO GIVE US THE STATISTICS AND MAKE A DOCUMENTARY FILM IN A COUNTRY WHICH HAS THE MAXIMUM RATE OF FEMALE INFANTICIDE IN THE WORLD.

ACCORDING TO THE STATISTICS COMPILED BY THEM, EVERYDAY MORE THAN 3,000 FOETUSES ARE BEING ABORTED IN INDIA ON BEING IDENTIFIED THAT THEY ARE FEMALE.

IF YOU MULTIPLY THIS FIGURE WITH THE NUMBER OF DAYS IN A YEAR (365 DAYS) WE UNDERSTAND THAT MORE THAN ONE MILLION FEMALE FOETUSES ARE ABORTED EVERY YEAR IN INDIA.

IT IS PRACTISED MAXIMUM IN THE STATE OF TAMIL NADU AND RAJASTHAN. THERE ARE BIG BILL BOARDS AND ADVERTISEMENTS SAYING “INVEST RS.500/- AND SAVE RS.500,000,

SIGNIFYING THAT YOU DO TESTS LIKE AMINO SENTESIS OR ULTRA SONOGRAPHY WHICH COST ABOUT RS.500/- AND ON IDENTIFYING THE GENDER OF THE FOETUS IF IT IS A GIRL YOU CAN ALWAYS ABORT HER AND THUS SAVE RS.5,00,000/- WHICH IS USUALLY SPENT IN THE UPBRINGING OF A GIRL AND GIVING DOWRY IN HER MARRIAGE.

ACCORDING TO A REPORT OF THE TAMIL NADU GOVERNMENT HOSPITAL, OUT OF EVERY 10 FEMALE CHILDREN BORN, 4 ARE PUT TO DEATH.

FEMALE INFANTICIDE HAS BEEN PRESENT IN OUR COUNTRY FOR CENTURIES. NO WONDER THE FEMALE POPULATION OF INDIA IS LESS THAN THE MALE POPULATION.

ACCORDING TO THE 1901 CENSUS OF INDIA, THERE WERE 972 FEMALES FOR EVERY 1000 MALES.

ACCORDING TO THE 1981 CENSUS, THERE WERE 934 FEMALES FOR EVERY 1000 MALES IN INDIA

AND THE LATEST STATISTICS OF 1991 TELL US THAT FOR EVERY 1000 MALES THERE ARE 972 FEMALES IN INDIA.

ONE CAN REALISE FROM THESE CENSUS REPORTS THAT THE RATIO OF FEMALE POPULATION IS DECLINING EVERY YEAR.

EARLIER ONLY FEMALE INFANTICIDE WAS BEING RESORTED TO, BUT NOW WITH THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND MEDICINES TO SUIT THIS ACT, THERE HAS BEEN ADDED ANOTHER CRIME OF ABORTING FEMALE FETUSES.

IT IS NO WONDER, THEREFORE, THAT THE URBAN AREAS OF BIHAR AND GOA SHOWED 1054 AND 1091 FEMALES RESPECTIVELY FOR EVERY 1000 MALES AND ACCORDING TO 1991.TICALLY FALLEN TO 911.

ISLAM NOT ONLY PROHIBITS FEMALE INFANTICIDE BUT ALSO REBUKES THE THOUGHT OF REJOICING ON THE NEWS OF BIRTH OF A MALE CHILD AND NOT REJOICING ON THE NEWS OF THE BIRTH OF A FEMALE CHILD.

SURAH AL-NAHL (CHAPTER 16), VERSES 58 AND 59 (16:58-59)

“WHEN NEWS IS BROUGHT TO ONE OF THEM OF (THE BIRTH OF) A FEMALE (CHILD), HIS FACE DARKNESS, AND HE IS FILLED WITH INWARD GRIEF!

WITH SHAME DOES HE HIDE HIMSELF FROM HIS PEOPLE, BECAUSE OF THE BAD NEWS HE HAS HAD! SHALL HE RETAIN IT ON (SUFFERANCE) THE CHOICE THEY DECIDE ON?”

IN ISLAM THE GIRL CHILD IS ENTITLED TO SUPPORT, AND UPBRINGING AND GOOD TREATMENT.

ACCORDING TO AN AUTHENTIC HADITH RELATED IN AHMED, PROPHET MUHAMMAD (PBUH) SAID,

“ANYONE WHO BRINGS UP TWO DAUGHTERS PROPERLY THEY WILL BE VERY CLOSE TO ME ON THE DAY OF JUDGMENT.”

ACCORDING TO ANOTHER HADITH WHOEVER BRINGS UP TWO DAUGHTERS PROPERLY AND TREATS THEM KINDLY AND JUSTLY SHALL ENTER PARADISE.

THERE SHOULD BE NO PARTIALITY IN BRINGING UP OF SONS AND DAUGHTERS.

PROPHET MUHAMMAD (PBUH) ALWAYS SPOKE ABOUT JUSTICE AND KINDNESS TOWARDS A CHILD WHETHER IT BE A DAUGHTER OR A SON.

ONCE A PERSON IN THE PRESENCE OF PROPHET MUHAMMAD (PBUH) KISSED HIS SON AND PUT HIM ON HIS LAP AND DID NOT DO THE SAME FOR HIS DAUGHTER WHO WAS WITH HIM.

THE PROPHET (PBUH) OBJECTED AND TOLD THE MAN THAT HE WAS BEING UNJUST AND THAT HE SHOULD HAVE ALSO KISSED HIS DAUGHTER AND PLACED HER ON THE OTHER LAP.

THE PROPHET (PBUH) NOT ONLY PREACHED ABOUT EQUAL JUSTICE TO SONS AND DAUGHTERS BUT ALSO PRACTISED IT HIMSELF.
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I HAVE WRITTEN REGARDING THIS ISSUE ON September 13, 2015 AT MY SAFY EMAN BLOG

YOU CAN READ THE FULL ARTICLE FROM THE FOLLOWING LINK UNDER THE TITLE

MY PARENTS KILLED ME BECAUSE I WAS A GIRL
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https://safyeman.wordpress.com/…/my-parants-killed-me-beco…/
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The Glorious Quran Surah Ibrahim (Abraham) - 14:42
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وَلاَ تَحْسَبَنَّ اللّهَ غَافِلاً عَمَّا يَعْمَلُ الظَّالِمُونَ إِنَّمَا يُؤَخِّرُهُمْ لِيَوْمٍ تَشْخَصُ فِيهِ الأَبْصَارُ (14:42)
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AND DO NOT think that God is unaware of what the evildoers are doing:

He but grants them respite until the Day when their eyes will stare in horror ( for the torment they see awaiting them)- 14:42

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The Glorious Quran Surah Al-Imran (The Family of Imran) - 3:169
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وَلاَ تَحْسَبَنَّ الَّذِينَ قُتِلُواْ فِي سَبِيلِ اللّهِ أَمْوَاتًا بَلْ أَحْيَاء عِندَ رَبِّهِمْ يُرْزَقُونَ 3:169
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But do not think of those that have been slain in God's cause as dead.

Nay, they are alive! With their Sustainer have they their sustenance, - 3:169
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