I am a woman who is 48 years old and has been married for more than 18 months. I have not been able to become…

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I am a woman who is 48 years old and has been married for more than 18 months. I have not been able to become pregnant because of age conditions and I have a desire for children like any other woman. I have heard that there is a method of renting or taking an egg from a donor and it is fertilized with sperm from my husband with an external fertilization (IVF method). Then, the egg is transplanted after fertilization in my womb and I am the mother carrying the fertilized egg. I would like to take your honorable opinion on the extent to which this method is religiously accepted, and what reservations are there, may God reward you with all the best? We take into consideration that the possibility of doing the above method takes place in Islamic countries other than Iraq.

Ayatullah Bashir Hussain al-Najafi · Accepted Answer

In the name of Allah, my daughter, if the egg is from you and it is fertilized by your husband externally, then it is placed in your womb, there is nothing wrong with the baby being your son, and likewise if the fertilized egg is placed in the womb of another woman, then the owner of the womb will be incubator only and not a mother, where she can demand fees for this. Both of these methods are acceptable in religion, provided that no religiously forbidden act is committed like uncovering the genitals by the woman to the doctor, and there must be a woman doing this work. Yes, with the necessity of the doctor, it is permissible if he is in the treatment. As for taking an egg from a foreign woman, impregnating it with the husband’s sperms and placing it in the wife’s womb, it is forbidden, and the mother is the owner of the egg and not the owner of the womb (incubator) - the wife. Allah knows best.

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