Posted by Scientific Insights on Friday, July 18, 2014
2. The Law of Adoption According to Al-Qasimi
Deed
take an other child to later serve as his adoptive or foster children by providing a decent living facilities both in terms of service, affection, health, and education is
the good deeds legally that highly recommended by Islamic. The deeds is also a proof of the existence of social care to abandoned children who
need living facilities of appropriately they can get.
This
Social care is what later becomes a suggestion in Islam for life mutual understanding, mutual help and mutual help. Such
an attitude is an attitude which was supposed to always be practiced in
human life, because basically humans
live in groups and
society. Because of the importance a this attitude
mutual help, it
is not surprising if the god preserve it in the Holy Book "ta'awanu 'alaal-birr ...,".
In his tafseer, al-Qasimi commented
that prohibited taking other children to then
be serve as his adoptive by changing her pedigree lineage, although in practice they
have good intentions to the
child. Al-Qasimi
basing this prohibition on Surat al-Ahzab: 4 and 5
....وَمَا جَعَلَأَدْعِيَاءَكُمْ أَبْنَاءَكُمْ...
...nor has He made your adopted sons your
sons...
ادْعُوهُمْ لِآبَائِهِمْ هُوَ أَقْسَطُ عِندَ اللَّهِ ۚ فَإِنلَّمْ تَعْلَمُوا آبَاءَهُمْ فَإِخْوَانُكُمْ فِي الدِّينِ وَمَوَالِيكُمْ ...
Call them by
(the names of) their fathers: that is juster in the sight of Allah. But if ye
know not their father's (names, call them) your Brothers in faith, or your
maulas...
Basically
the prohibition above lies on the changing of pedigree lineage of the biological parents, who
then ascribed to
the adoptive parents. Which in the deed of lineage erasing could cause indistinctness concerned with lineage child really.
Now, if in practice of adoption is done without
there any
change about genealogical lineage, until the child's status
is clear that
just as a adoptive child or foster child and not
a biological child,
then such acts
are permitted by al-Qasimi.
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