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637	If a woman cannot have children, is surrogacy allowed? If so, does the bearer of the child have to be Muslim or can it be a Non-Muslim too? In Islam who will be the mother and father of the child then?

	Islam does not permit surrogacy, a method of reproduction whereby a woman agrees to become pregnant and deliver a child for a contracted party. Firstly, the method is adulterous in nature because it requires introducing the sperm of an alien person to the womb of a person he is not married to. Secondly, it is not allowed in Islam because of the issues of parentage and inheritance. Thirdly, we are ordered to protect our lineage and children. Undoubtedly this womb-renting will lead to confusion of lineage and not knowing who the father or mother is.
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