Are we allowed to create test-tube babies (i.e undergo IVF treatment) according to Islamic law

Question 1:
Are we allowed to create test-tube babies (i.e undergo IVF treatment) according to Islamic law. My friend and her husband have been told that they could not have children because they are infertile as a couple. The only way that they could have children is by having a test-tube baby. This treatment involves fertilising the wife's egg with the husband's sperm outside the body, in a medical lab. Once the baby has started to concieve, the baby will be put back into the wife's womb. In this process no sperm or egg is used from strange (non-mehram) men or women, only wife and husband sex cells are joined together. Please tell me whether this fertility treatment can take place for wife and husband in islam. If it cannot take place can you please explain why this treatment is sinn and haraam in islam - can you please give me reference to the quran and hadith. Thank you.

Answer :
Allah is the Creator of the universe. He created the heavens and the earth. Everything is subject to His will. As believers, we should appreciate and accept that granting of children is the sole prerogative of Allah. Allah in His infinite knowledge and wisdom will bless a person with children at a time that is appropriate to that person’s specific situation. At times, Allah may not grant a couple children, whilst this is also a blessing unto them. Sometimes, Allah tests man through this. Nabi Zakariyyah (alayhimus salaam)received the bounty of a child in his old age.

Amongst the negative characteristics of artificial insemination are:

1. Unnatural conception;
2. A woman is required to expose her private parts;

However, inability to conceive is also essentially a medical problem. Islam has encouraged us to adopt medical treatment as a means. Therefore, if a genuine medical condition exists, e.g. infertility, etc. then under the guidance of an upright competent medical doctor, artificial insemination may be adopted as a medical treatment with the following provision:

1. A surrogate mother is not used (that any other women besides the wife) cells are used;
2. Only the sperm of the husband is used.

and Allah Ta'ala Knows Best

Mufti Ebrahim Desai

Source : Askimam.org

Question 2:
assalam alikum,iam married fivr years back and still ihave no child, last two years i went for treatment for my wife,after intensive treatment includes one surgery doctors found cornal blockage and endromtreosis gr 4.Resulting this our dotor said we should go for test tube baby or ivf in which my sperm and and wife egg wiil be fertilized outsede and then injected in uterus.After this suggestion we went to several cities for any other kind of treatment but every where the ane answer is that only ivf can give us a child andthat also is ony 30 % chance only when allah wiil allow this this could happen.So finally i would like to know is ivf or testtube baby is allowed or not in islam and what are criterias, please let me know as soon as possible as i am very disturb nowdays.allah hafiz

Answer:
(Fatwa: 252/194=H/1429)

Both the ways are haram. There is no wrong if you consult any other expert and religious hakim or doctor and adopt lawful alternative treatment. Adopt lawful and halal method and pay special attention to duas. If the children are better for you in this world and the hereafter then giving children is not impossible for Allah. But, if it is not better for you and not destined by Allah, then keep patience and stay thankful to Allah. Deliberate the matter of this world only that many people are so much troubled due to their children that your trouble is not even 4% compared to their troubles. They very earnestly wish that their children would have not been born. Even, we observe many wishing that their children may die before their eyes as soon as possible.

Allah (Subhana Wa Ta'ala) Knows Best

Darul Ifta, Darul Uloom Deoband

Source : Darul Ifta, Darul Uloom Deoband