prohibition and permissibility

Many Saudi and Gulf families tend to determine the gender of the newborn, at a time when eight centers in the Kingdom were granted licenses to treat infertility and reproductive problems, and under the control of the culture of the "male child" in the Saudi and Arab society in general, through the use of nutritional schedules, ovulation calculations, and chemical lye. Go to these medical centers to get guaranteed results. With the difference in jurisprudential fatwas among Muslim scholars in Arab countries that allow and refuse to specify the gender of the child, centers specialized in infertility and delayed childbearing determine the gender of the child in Saudi Arabia and abroad, and estimates of the numbers indicate that the number of births in Saudi Arabia exceeds 500 thousand annually.

Sharia opinion

Al-Sharq obtained a copy of an extensive Sharia study by Sheikh Dr. Khaled bin Abdullah Al-Musleh refuting the evidence of the prohibition and permissibility of determining the gender of the newborn before it was conceived. He explained through his research that the Fatwa Council in Jordan and the Fatwa Committee of the Kuwaiti Ministry of Endowments approved that, while the Fatwa Committee did not permit it Saudi Arabia, being that of the occult.

Equal in demand

For his part, the Secretary-General of the Saudi Obstetrics and Gynecology Society, Dr. Hisham Arab, stated that there is equal demand in terms of demand for male and female pregnancies in Saudi Arabia, noting that gender determination processes are open and no circulars have been issued about preventing them. While the Assistant Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health for Private Health Sector Affairs, Dr. Ali Al-Zawawi, indicates that the Supervisory Committee for Fertilization, Embryo and Infertility Treatment has set conditions and standards for licensing fertilization units, embryos and infertility treatment at their three levels in terms of furnishing, equipping, and technical personnel that must be available in these units according to the level required for licensing .

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one thousand real

In a survey conducted by Al Sharq in infertility centers and delayed childbearing, an employee at Saad Specialist Hospital in the Eastern Province stated that it is forbidden to determine the gender of the newborn according to a circular from the Ministry of Health except in special cases, while an employee at the Habib Center in Riyadh revealed that the sex of the newborn can be determined by ICSI without restrictions, as this is done within three weeks of injection, indicating that the cost of the operation is 23 thousand riyals.

Four girls

Mother Lina stated that she is currently seeking to determine the gender of the next child to be a male, as she gave birth to four daughters and is more than 33 years old. She indicated that she would use the "vaginal lotion" that can be obtained from pharmacies.

Financial losses

“Umm Majed” said that she suffered from infertility for nearly 20 years, and when she decided to perform IVF in one of the specialized centers in Riyadh, she requested that her fetus be a male, and she actually gave birth to her only child, Majid, 7 years ago. She tried to repeat the pregnancy several times through insemination, but the attempts were unsuccessful, which incurred great financial losses, as conducting such operations is expensive.

food system

Umm Abdullah, who suffers from a health problem in the back, seeks to have a female baby after the birth of two male children, and being afraid of repeated pregnancies in light of the health conditions she suffers from, she decided to follow a diet to contribute to preparing the womb to be acidic, which is the environment in which Fit female pregnancy.

New arithmetic base

The owner of (TaskTeam) website for ing the gender of the baby, Yahya Asiri, stated that his opening of the website officially registered with the Ministry of Culture and Information stemmed from the experience of his and his wife''s suffering in childbearing for 11 years, and indicated that after four years of trying treatment with medical centers that depend On the arithmetic operations 28-14 = 14 35-14 = 21, he was able to devise a mathematical rule for the days of ovulation for women to determine the gender of the newborn so that, God willing, a boy or a girl, explaining that it also depends on the woman’s sensory signs in addition to the vaginal lotion before intercourse.

They ask for a son

Asiri indicated that the majority of the requests on the site, which opened last March, are from women, stressing that the highest percentage of applications were from Saudi Arabia, and he also confirmed that the majority of Saudis on the site ask to determine the gender of the child to be male, while the ratio varies between the demand for males or females in countries Al-Khaleej, and explained that one of the most difficult requests he receives on the site is to determine the gender of the newborn to a female because it needs a quick calculation so that the isolation takes place within 12-24 hours, and therefore pregnancy needs time from one to two months until the calculations are done accurately, indicating that the accounts Male pregnancy is easier.

Without medical intervention

Asiri stated that he receives requests for sex determination from other Arab and foreign countries, noting that his team consists of five people, including women and men, who supervise the site around the clock. Asiri indicated that he submitted to the Ministry of Health branch in order to approve his idea and conduct research on it, but he did not find a response from the ministry, and therefore he went to one of the authorities, according to what he said, outside the Kingdom to adopt his method of determining the gender of the newborn without medical intervention.

Over the age of 37 years

According to the site’s statistics, the number of requests for pregnancy with a male child reached 355, while recommendations for pregnancy with a girl reached 26 applications, while the number of requests from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia alone reached 355, then the UAE with 28 applications, then Kuwait with 14 applications, and females'' requests reached 388 while males reached 107 requests Whereas, the most sought-after age group was over the age of 37.

Allowed in Saudi Arabia

For his part, the Secretary General of the Saudi Obstetrics and Gynecology Society, Dr. Hisham Arab, stated that the process of determining the sex of the child is permitted in Saudi Arabia and there is nothing to prevent infertility centers from their work, and no circulars have been issued regarding this, stressing that gender determination operations in Saudi Arabia work within limits. The end is the will of God that determines the livelihood of the newborns, and what doctors do are just reasons. He said that there are still no statistics on infertility and reproductive centers in Saudi Arabia, indicating that during this year a group of IVF laboratories was formed under the umbrella of the Saudi Society for Women and Childbirth, which is in the process of counting these laboratories in Saudi Arabia. Arab said that he noticed that wives are often the ones who attend his infertility clinic to request to determine the gender of the baby, stressing that the percentage of natural births between males and females in Saudi Arabia is equal as the difference is very small, as it does not exceed 5%.

Pipe baby

Arabs pointed out that medically, sex is determined by two scientific methods. The first is through artificial insemination, where the male’s “sperm” is taken and the male sperm is separated from the female, so that the woman’s uterus at the time of the egg’s activity is injected with the sperm of the desired sex without “anesthetic”, explaining The success of this method ranges between 20-30%. If insemination is successful, then the success rate for determining the required sex reaches 90%, God willing. As for the second method, it is the “tube baby” where the woman’s eggs are extracted under the influence of “anesthesia”, and the sperm is separated The man is according to the required sex and the insemination is done externally, and after two days the unit of cells formed is taken and the chromosomes are examined in terms of whether they are female or male, after which the woman is injected with it inside the uterus.

In the fourth pregnancy

He pointed out that the demand for sex determination is often in the fourth or fifth pregnancy of a woman, stressing that the demand for males and females is equal since there are families that seek males and there are families that seek females, and he mentioned that one of the influential positions is that one of the women had four daughters and wanted to conceive a child and were happy After her fertilization with twins, but in the fourth month it became clear that they were two "female" girls, stressing that their work as doctors was the work of humans, but God’s will is above everything. And about following other methods of determining sex in terms of using vaginal douching, following a certain diet and the time of intercourse, he indicated that all of this is scientifically unproven and that it is not recommended to describe his patients and delude them, indicating that these methods have big question marks.

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Year BC

In a deep research by the Mufti, Dr. Khaled Al-Musleh, titled “A Shari''ah View on Determining the Sex of the Fetus,” he pointed out that “the process of determining the sex of the fetus is an old matter that has occupied people since ancient times. In the year 500 BC, Indian schools of medicine concluded that it is possible to influence the gender In some cases, the fetus is due to food or drugs, as mentioned by some historians, and through this it becomes clear that what is new in the issue of determining the sex of the fetus is in the progress made in the means and methods through which the sex of the fetus can be determined.

The research stated that it can be inferred from the saying that the basic principle is that it is permissible to determine the sex of the fetus with several evidence, including that the basic principle with regard to things is permissibility.