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utsfl:classroom:seminars:pba470h [2024/04/04 08:43] – [Jewish Perspectives] added two articles balleyneutsfl:classroom:seminars:pba470h [2025/08/09 19:54] (current) – added Samia's comments in TAA chat balleyne
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   * https://www.facebook.com/ProLifeMuslims/   * https://www.facebook.com/ProLifeMuslims/
  
-==== Ensoulment Argument ====+Ensoulment Argument:
 From Yasmin Sham((https://www.facebook.com/ProLifeMuslims/photos/a.339143032854862.1073741827.339141932854972/799140143521813/)): From Yasmin Sham((https://www.facebook.com/ProLifeMuslims/photos/a.339143032854862.1073741827.339141932854972/799140143521813/)):
 > You may have come across Muslims who have said that abortion is "okay" before "40 or 120 days" because there is no soul before that time according to various haddiths. Many Christian and secular pro-life activists find themselves unequipped to handle Islamic theology. The good news is that this argument is VERY easy to deal with. > You may have come across Muslims who have said that abortion is "okay" before "40 or 120 days" because there is no soul before that time according to various haddiths. Many Christian and secular pro-life activists find themselves unequipped to handle Islamic theology. The good news is that this argument is VERY easy to deal with.
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 > **If you need to reply quickly, simply ask them if it's okay to kill someone in their sleep or in a coma.** That has always worked for me. > **If you need to reply quickly, simply ask them if it's okay to kill someone in their sleep or in a coma.** That has always worked for me.
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 +Samia:
 +> Prophetic tradition tells us that the sould enters a fetus body either at 40 days or 4 months (disputed). However some scholars wrongfully use this as a blanket justification for abortion when Islam is clear on this matter: 
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 +> **Killing of offspring is never permitted** as this is directly mentioned in the holy Quran by God in several chapters. 
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 +> We must also understand how the concept of ensoulment works in Islam. The soul also leaves the body during these events in Islam:
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 +>  * When a person is sleeping
 +>  * When a person is in a coma
 +>  * When a person dies 
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 +> Yet, just because the soul has left our bodies in those instances, its still not permitted to kill the sleeping person, a person in a coma. 
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 +> Furthermore, its not even permitted to break the bones of a deceased person, even if they fought as an enemy in war. Why would it be permitted to break the bones of a living human being whom God has willed to be? 
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 +> To sum it up; a soul is not what defines a human being. Nor is it what defines permissibility of killing another human.
  
 ==== The Qur'an on Human Development ==== ==== The Qur'an on Human Development ====