A couple talking about the stage of growth of their unborn baby

15-3-2014 | IslamWeb

Question:

Assalam u Allaikum. I wanna ask you something. i was stiting with some of my family members and they were talking about that husband and wife should not talk about the child which the wife carries. They were talking about an example that that girl was telling her husband that today our child can hear, today our child's heartbeat has started, today his/her hands are going to develop, today his/her legs are going to develop etc etc. as we all know that google serves us a lot. They were talking that the girl which tells her husband a lot used to search all this on the internet. On the internet, day by day development is written. i just want to confirm why husband and wife couldnt talk about this?

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Answer:

All perfect praise be to Allaah, The Lord of the Worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allaah, and that Muhammad, sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam, is His Slave and Messenger.

There is nothing in Islam that prohibits the husband and wife from talking about their unborn child and its stage of growth if that is based on a scientific basis describing the stages of fetal growth.

However, it is impermissible to talk about those matters as a way of promoting lies or false assumptions as is the case with soothsayers and sorcerers who claim to know the matters of the unseen. Verily, the unseen is known only to Allaah; He says (what means): {Say, "None in the heavens and earth knows the unseen except Allaah, and they do not perceive when they will be resurrected."}[Quran 27:65]

Allaah Knows best.