Adoption and ruling in Islamic law and its legitimate alternatives

Abstract
Adoption is one of the social phenomena prevalent in contemporary Muslim life. It was also a common practice in pre-Islamic Arab society and other nonArab nations such as Roman and Greek. However, in the modern era, there has been a great deal of adoption among Muslims as a result of the natural calamities, grinding wars ending up with massacres and the fragmentation of families. In the light of recent changes in modern life due to tremendous scientific and technological affects emerging generations and the complexity of their life patterns, and may cause an increasing number of illegal childrens in some Muslim communities, besides a large number displaced children and neglected orphans. Therefore, to adopt those children as a charity to them with the full rights of legal children became familiar as "good deed" without having a sound research on finding out the view point of Islamic Jurisprudence in this regard. This study steps forward to analyze the idea of child adoption, study the limits or prohibitions, and to provide legitimate alternatives to solve this real- life social problem. The solutions have been approved in Qur'an, Sunnah and the books of Islamic Jurisprudence, but it needs contemporary diligence and legislation, so, the matter could be resolved on best Islamic legal grounds for the in contemporary scenario

Dr. Muhammad Moyiyud din Naeem, Dr. Zainab Ameen. (2018) التبنی و حکمہ فی الشریعہ الاسامیہ و بدائلہ المشروعہ, Al-Azhāar, Volume 4, Issue 1.
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