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What is your advice to a sister who is suffering from a pregnancy problem, as a medical examination showed that the fetus, in its sixth month, has no brain, and the doctor mentioned that if it lives, it will be without intellect and will die?

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It is recommended to be patient and content with Allah's decree, for "perhaps you dislike a thing and it is good for you." It is not permissible to abort a living fetus merely because of a deformity, unless its continuation poses a definite danger to the mother's life. The sister should not hasten to judge that the fetus will not live. However, if it is confirmed by trustworthy doctors that it is a dead body, then there is no harm in aborting it.

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