What is the expiation for aborting a formed fetus in the eleventh week, which entailed prayer and burial, knowing that the mother was forced into it due to compelling circumstances?
Deliberately aborting a fetus is a crime that is not permissible and necessitates sincere repentance, frequent seeking of forgiveness, and performing good deeds. The person responsible must pay the diyah (blood money) of the fetus to its heirs, which is one-tenth of the mother's diyah. She must also offer expiation by fasting for two consecutive months.
It was possible to present the matter to a judge to be rid of the husband's harm without a Khul' (divorce initiated by wife with compensation) or compensation, because permits a woman to request a divorce from her husband if he harms her, based on the Prophet's (peace be upon him) saying: "There should be no harm nor reciprocating harm." Scholars have stipulated that clear harm, such as verbal abuse and physical assault, necessitates divorce.
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